Volunteers wore backpacks with air-collection tubes on everyday errands. One of the pesticides has been shown to be harmful to children. A recent UC Davis study found that as Central Valley ...

These self-paced, online eLearning courses can prepare you for the Indiana pesticide certification exams or introduce workers to the basics in your field. These courses present 5 to 8 hours of ...

Getting rid of your unused pesticides or pesticide containers takes time and proper steps. As such, it can take awhile to get to the top of your to-do list. “Pesticide disposal is one of those ...

Slavery was abolished in 1848. But today the islanders are victims again - of a toxic pesticide called chlordecone that's poisoned the soil and water and been linked to unusually high rates of ...

A joint investigation by The Los Angeles Times and cannabis industry newsletter WeedWeek has revealed alarming levels of ...

It has the menacing sound of an Alfred Hitchcock movie: Millions of rats aren't even getting sick from pesticide doses that once killed them. In one county in England, these "super rats" have ...

Agricultural pesticides sold to farmers ready-mixed into "cocktails" can kill twice as many bees, according to an analysis of 90 studies. Each measured the impact of environmental stresses such as ...

In groundbreaking new tests, we sent school lunches to the Health Research Institute, an accredited lab in Iowa, to hunt for what standards don’t cover: heavy metals, pesticides, and veterinary ...

Elsewhere, an orange from Tunisia contained malathion, a pesticide classified as "probably carcinogenic", banned in the EU since 2008. The documentary cites research done by the NGO network ...

The peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Environmental Injustice in the USA: Root Causes, Current Regulatory Reinforcement and a Path Forward (2022) finds that Black, Indigenous and people of color and ...

The 2021 peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment shows that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms needed for healthy soil, ...

Pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables are the top food safety fear among consumers in five countries. Scientists from the not-for-profit group CABI used survey data from 8,644 people in ...