Pesticides use is fundamental to modern agriculture, shaping landscapes, and ensuring food security worldwide. However, persistent and widespread ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is considering granting “emergency” approval for a PFAS pesticide, meaning it will not have to undergo important safety reviews required as ...

The global food system relies heavily on pesticides to protect crops from pests, diseases, and weeds. But this dependence comes at a cost: declining biodiversity, soil degradation, collapsing insect ...

A new study shows that plants along streams reduce some farm chemicals, but underground water can still carry pesticides into rivers.

WASHINGTON— Fifty environmental groups sent a letter today to the House and Senate agriculture committees opposing S. 2472, which would give the U.S. Department of Agriculture unprecedented power to ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 16, 2022) Putting up with moderate pest levels can attract and maintain predators and parasitoids that provide important biological control services throughout the ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 29, 2024) With its draft Biological Evaluation of the impacts of rodenticides open for public comment until February 13, advocates are warning the U.S. Environmental ...

AgTech Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to develop fungal biological alternatives to chemical pesticides for sustainable crop ...

Areas with heavy pesticide reliance experience declining beneficial insect populations and weaker soil biology, which ...

I. The transport and accumulation of pesticides in environments and ecosystems / Roy Hansberry, Chrm. -- Global distribution of pesticides / V.H. Freed -- Translocation of pesticides in the ...

Stuart Woolf, board chair at Western Growers, interviews DPR Director Karen Morrison at the Biological Summit. (photo: Brad Hooker/ Agri-Pulse) The 2025 Biological Summit in Woodland, Calif., last ...