How can we ensure that innovative products and solutions are fostered and encouraged when their impacts on human health and the environment are not fully known?

The precautionary principle is supposed to enable decision-makers to adopt precautionary measures even if scientific uncertainties about environmental and health risks remain.

Microplastics are small pieces of plastics, usually defined as smaller than 5 millimeters. They enter the environment via two routes.

Artificial Intelligence is often characterized as a transformational technology for the twenty-first century.

Glyphosate is one of the world’s most widely used herbicides, used in European agriculture to control weeds in a wide range of crops.

Synthetic gene drives based on the CRISPR-cas9 genetic engineering method could be used to spread artificially modified genes through wild populations faster.