According to the California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation, four out of five air samples that were collected in 2023 from agriculture-intensive communities had detectable traces of pesticides.

Marty Makary, a highly acclaimed surgeon who is an outspoken critic of the U.S. food system, the use of pesticides, and of ...

Geneticists have developed a gene drive-based solution to the widespread problem of insecticide resistance. In an effort to protect valuable crops, the researchers created an 'e-Drive' that reverses ...

The judge ruled the EPA reasonably interpreted its regulations when it denied a petition from environmental groups asking that treated seeds be registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and ...

An “immediate family exemption” that allows farm owners and their immediate family to remain inside enclosed structures or ...

Nevertheless, we also face a crisis here in Palm Beach in the repeated dousing of our plant life with toxic chemicals.

Towering grain bins are surrounded by close to 50,000 acres of corn, soybeans, oats and other crops grown without the use of ...

Growing up on Colorado’s Western Slope, Steve Ela never felt pressured by his parents to take over the family’s fruit orchard ...

A recent study, published by the American Cancer Society, finds pesticide exposure is linked to prostate cancer incidence in ...

Beginning in 2012, Tajikistan leased around 18,000 hectares of arable land to China for agricultural cultivation. Over ten ...

The worrying rise in young people with cancer has baffled doctors, with experts blaming a variety of factors from cheap junk ...

Despite banning their use within their own borders ... During the rainy season, they [the pesticides] reach us. They come ...