pesticide, Tag

David Valentine, a marine scientist at the University of California, has discovered barrels of DDT on the ocean floor just 10 miles off the coast of Southern California...

The U.K. government is reversing a ban on a dangerous pesticide. The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and British Sugar lobbied hard to get a product containing neonicotinoid thiamethoxam sanctioned for emergency use on sugar...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has re-approved a pesticide for use throughout the country despite its known toxicity to honeybee populations. The chemical, sulfoxaflor, is produced by DowDupont, a major chemical...

In a move that is both a victory for environmental justice and a snub to the current president, the California Senate officially banned a pesticide that has been proven to cause brain damage in children...

California’s Monarch butterfly population hit a record low in 2018 after dropping a whopping 86 percent from the previous year. According to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, the total population has declined...

Environmentalists scored a victory in Canada on Wednesday, securing restrictions on two pesticides that have been posing threats to bees and aquatic insects...

Bad news for anyone who likes to eat cereal, or granola bars, or anything that contains oats at all: a recent study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) tested 45 conventional oat products for the presence of glyphosate,...

After over a decade of fighting, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has finally scored a victory in securing the ban of the pesticide chlorpyrifos...

In a monumental decision that has been years in the making, all member nations of the European Union have approved a total ban of neonicotinoids, the most widely used insecticide in the world and a well-documented danger...

A total ban on pesticides that harm bees is highly likely in the European Union, according to The Guardian. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published new assessments Wednesday confirming the risks of neonicotinoids...

When trying to get pregnant, many women adopt a healthy diet full of fruits and vegetables. But it turns out they may be compromising their chances — unless the produce is organically grown. According to a new study published...

Pesticide use may be harming animals that live nearby, according to new research. A group of 10 scientists led by Paris' Musée de l'Homme and the Great Ape Conservation Project at Kibale National Park in Uganda found baboons...

Our pesticides may be harming animals that live nearby, according to new research. A group of 10 scientists led by Paris' Musée de l'Homme and the Great Ape Conservation Project at Kibale National Park in Uganda found baboons...

If anyone is still hoping the Donald Trump administration will put the environment before industries, new reports should put that to rest. Back in March the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided they wouldn't ban...

If President Donald Trump is waging a war on local farmworkers in California, he's winning. His Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened up the use of a pesticide called chlorpyrifos to agriculture in March, and then...