This year, Clark County detected 74 mosquitos infected with West Nile Virus. And Montgomery County detected seven mosquitos ...

California officials insist that pesticide air samples remained within healthy limits. However, environmentalists say the ...

A farm grown vertically indoors in the U.S. aims to use 90 percent less water, 97 percent less land and no pesticides while producing more than 4 million pounds of strawberries a year. The ...

What’s more, the chemical is lethal even in mosquitoes that have genetic resistance to standard pesticides. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date with ...

Over 450,000 tons of pesticides are used in the U.S. every year, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Not only can these chemicals seep into ...

Several years ago, headlines warned of a "bee-pocalypse" as populations of the insect reached record lows. "You’d go out and ...

a pesticide used to eradicate parasitic worms that has been banned in more than 20 countries, and penthiopyrad, a fungicide used to prevent mold and mildew that has not yet been studied for its ...

The federal government may have taken historic steps to mitigate the exposure to “forever chemicals” called PFAS. However, ...

These studies were predominantly conducted in the United States (U.S.) and Italy, and they reveal organophosphate pesticides as the most used type of chemical that the mothers reported. (See more ...

Obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act, this 2010 email is the first known written record of a proposed online platform designed to influence public debate on pesticides and genetically ...

Combined with integrated pest management that uses pests' natural enemies as crop protection, "we could use induced resistance to cut pesticides to a bare minimum, making agriculture more sustainable.

Neonicotinoids, a type of pesticide used in agriculture and horticulture to combat insects, are not only killing bees and bumble bees but are also harmful to practically all birds, new research by ...