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 ...

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 ...

Background: Conventional pesticides comprise a diverse group of substances intended to destroy, repel or control organisms identified as pests. Compared to studies of lead, mercury and PCBs few ...

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 ...

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 ...

Later in the day, I had an overwhelming experience while presenting my research during the informal poster presentations. When people came over to chat with me, my mind went completely blank.

"Usually you can report various issues." Homeowner questions HOA actions after witnessing major issue across neighborhood: ...

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 ...

Children have their free nutritious lunch at a village kindergarten in Longshan town, Xiangxi, Hunan province, on June 27. (YAO YUXIN/CHINA DAILY)At Shaping village kindergarten in a remote area of Ce ...

The activities in Miyun are part of a recent national effort to strengthen food security and diversify food sources. At the ...

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 ...