Tag Archives: pesticides

About three million tonnes of agricultural pesticides are used across the globe each year, yet little is known about where or in which environments these...

Fossil fuel-derived pesticides are a significant but overlooked source of greenhouse gases, warn campaigners. Use of pesticides, which includes insecticides,...

An investigation by scientists at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Rosario (UNR), Argentina has found that younger people in villages...

U.S. Environmental and public health groups filed a legal challenge seeking to close the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (DPR) loophole...

Over half of all food samples tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contain the residues of at least one pesticide, and one in ten samples...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week denied requests by conservationists and members of Congress to phase out the use of agricultural pesticides...

A correlation between agricultural pesticides and cancer in western states has been found by University of Idaho and Northern Arizona University researchers....

In a major victory for health and environmental groups, a California court has ruled (see here and here) that a sweeping state pesticide spraying program...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety filed a legal petition recently calling for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to end the...

Being heavily exposed to bug and weedkillers might render you prone to sleep disorders. According to studies published over the past decade, pesticides...