WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced today it has reached an agreement to phase out the endocrine-disrupting pesticide propazine within one year. Propazine functions similarly to ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a proposed rule and policy updates to strengthen the biological integrity, diversity and environmental health of the National Wildlife Refuge ...

The use of pesticides has grown exponentially since World War II, with many wartime chemicals transitioning to the consumer market, including the organochlorines (e.g., DDT) and organophosphates (e.g.

(Beyond Pesticides, November 30, 2023) Scientists at Minami Kyushu University in Japan have made a groundbreaking discovery of a new biological control for a target insect. They have identified a ...

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 ...

The Western Growers Association is partnering for a second year with agtech consulting company Wharf42 to host the 2024 Salinas Biologicals Summit this week. The inaugural conference took place last ...

A monarch butterfly rests on a fennel at the Monarch Butterfly Garden in Pismo Beach, California. (Photo by Joyce Cory, CC BY 2.0, via Courthouse News) TUCSON, Ariz. — A federal judge gave the U.S.

Federal researchers have found that two widely used pesticides significantly harms endangered Northwest salmon and steelhead species. The opinion could lead to a change in where and how the pesticides ...

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 ...

With increasing consumer pressure on both farmers and supermarkets to minimise the use of chemical pesticides in fruit and vegetables, a new study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council ...

Scientists have discovered a strange tubular structure inside Profftella, a symbiotic bacterium in the Asian citrus psyllid. These long, helical tubes, filled with ribosomes, show a complexity not ...