Reducing the amount of agricultural sprays used by farmers—including fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides—could cut down ...

Indirect effects of pesticide use include impacts on the availability and seasonality of water resources, the transformation ...

Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is ...

MIT engineers have developed a new spray coating that makes pesticides stick better to leaves, reducing environmental ...

From the early 1970s until 1993, chlordecone, an "extremely toxic and persistent" pesticide, was used in banana plantations ...

It is important to acknowledge how far we have come as a country and region to improve air quality. Experts at the symposium ...

While the debate on PFAS pesticides puts the blame for pollution on farmers, the growing awareness in Europe of pollution from "forever chemicals" is based on cases of contamination from other ...

Whilst regulated in other applications, neonicotinoids in pet medicines continue to fall through the cracks, degrading water ...

Other countries outlawed the pesticide, but France acquired its ... for the anxiety suffered by those "durably exposed to the pollution", if they can prove damage. While the decision is a "small ...