pesticides

Farmers have been spraying chlorpyrifos on crops, including strawberries, apples, citrus, broccoli, and corn since 1965.

EPA Will Ban A Farming Pesticide Linked To Health Problems In Children

10:29pm August 18, 2021

by Vanessa Romo

Agency officials issued a final ruling on Wednesday saying chlorpyrifos can no longer be used on the food that makes its way onto American dinner plates. The move overturns a Trump-era decision.

Vandals struck Terry Fuller's farm a few days ago, burning 367 bales of hay. Fuller is trying to limit use of a herbicide called dicamba, which has pitted farmers against each other.

In Arkansas, Backlash Against Pesticide Regulation Gets Personal

10:23am September 22, 2020

by Dan Charles

A state official in Arkansas who's led a national effort to limit damage from a controversial herbicide has recently found his tractors damaged and hay bales burned.

A cafe employee in Washington, D.C., cleans in preparation for reopening.

EPA Orders Amazon and EBay to Stop Selling Bogus Coronavirus-Fighting Products

10:18pm June 11, 2020

by Hannah Hagemann

On Thursday the EPA ordered the e-commerce giants to stop selling a list of unregistered and misbranded products, some of which contained toxic chemicals like methylene chloride and chlorine dioxide.

Chopped and frozen samples of damaged soybean plants are kept in storage at the Office of the Indiana State Chemist. Many contain residues of the herbicide dicamba.

Pesticide Police, Overwhelmed By Dicamba Complaints, Ask EPA For Help

11:52am February 06, 2020

by Dan Charles

Across the Midwest, millions of acres of farmland have been damaged by dicamba, an herbicide that can harm crops not engineered to withstand it. There are so many cases, regulators can't keep up.

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Lake Shinji, near Japan's coast, is known for its beauty. Until about a decade ago, the lake was also home to thriving fisheries. New research suggests runoff of the controversial pesticides known as neonicotinoids, used on nearby rice paddies, may be res

Controversial Pesticides Are Suspected Of Starving Fish

7:57am November 02, 2019

by Dan Charles

New evidence from Japan's Lake Shinji suggests that the widely used family of pesticides called neonicotinoids, already controversial for harming pollinators, could pose risks to fish as well.

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The EPA says it aims to eliminate the testing of chemicals and pesticides in animals by 2035.

EPA Chief Pledges To Severely Cut Back On Animal Testing Of Chemicals

5:24pm September 10, 2019

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Alternative tests are emerging, the agency says, such as computer modeling and tissue studies of cells grown in the lab. Environmental advocates say the move is too quick, and disregards human health.

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Honeybees are seen feeding on the honeydew of whiteflies in citrus trees. Traces of neonicotinoids, a family of pesticides, have shown up in honeydew, an important food source for other insects.

New Evidence Shows Popular Pesticides Could Cause Unintended Harm To Insects

2:39pm August 06, 2019

by Dan Charles

Studies are revealing new, unintended threats that neonicotinoid pesticides pose to insects. The chemicals, widely used by farmers, are difficult to control because they persist in the environment.

Bedbugs aren't known to spread disease to or among people, but that doesn't make them less creepy-crawly. About the size of an apple seed, they feast on human blood and typically bite a sleeping host at night.

How Best To Snag And Destroy Bedbugs?

12:12pm July 09, 2019

by Gabriela Quirós

Vigilance and heat are currently your best weapons against bedbugs, exterminators say. But scientists are working on a way to give the bugs the hook with a strategy inspired by a Balkan folk remedy.

Freshwater shrimp from the species Gammarus pulex like this one, collected in Suffolk County in the U.K., were found to have traces of cocaine.

Traces Of Cocaine, Pesticides Detected In U.K. Shrimp

8:26pm May 02, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

Scientists collected freshwater shrimp at 15 locations in Suffolk. Shrimp from all of the sites were found to have detectable amounts of cocaine, and many had other drugs or pesticides.

These Palmer amaranth — or pigweed — plants, seen growing in a greenhouse at Kansas State University, appear to be resistant to multiple herbicides.

As Weeds Outsmart The Latest Weedkillers, Farmers Are Running Out Of Easy Options

8:28am April 11, 2019

by Dan Charles

In the long-running war between farmers and weeds, it's advantage, weeds. Scientists in Kansas have found examples of the dreaded pigweed that are immune to the newest weed-killing technologies.

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