Hilly terrain makes pesticides less effective. Labour shortages increase the incentive for farmers to weed using chemicals.

What to know about these problem produce items, plus smart substitutions you can make By Catherine Roberts To help consumers identify the fruits and vegetables that posed the greatest risk from ...

Pesticide exposure may quietly weaken honeybee colonies as queens shift harmful chemicals into their developing eggs.

South Africa's townships—urban areas created for black people under apartheid—have long experienced problems with massive pest infestations and the selling of pesticides on the streets and in informal ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 10, 2026) An article in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry identifies pesticides, often neglected, as a core factor in the spread of antibiotic resistance genes ...

Scientists at UCLA have linked long-term exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos with a sharply increased risk of Parkinson’s ...

(Beyond Pesticides, December 4, 2025) In a news release last week on November 26, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “issued a comprehensive fact-check addressing dangerous ...

Pesticides are an integral component of US agriculture and account for about 4.5% of total farm production costs (Aspelin and Grube, 1999). Pesticide use in the United States averaged over 1.2 billion ...

Spotta, a UK-based tech startup, is using IoT sensors and AI to help farmers monitor insects and limit the use of costly ...

PFAS — aka perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are a large, diverse group of manmade chemicals that have multiple, strong carbon-fluorine bonds, making them “highly fluorinated” compounds.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Africa’s townships – urban areas created for black people under apartheid – have long experienced problems with massive pest ...