Malathion, a commonly used pesticide for both agricultural use and home gardening, has had a long and widely disputed history ...

Because of their high toxicity, street pesticides are appealing. With no label or verbal warnings, people apply them not knowing how dangerous they are. Children are particularly vulnerable as ...

Swiss agrochemicals firm Syngenta and Germany’s Bayer have been accused of distributing dangerous pesticides in India’s Punjab region without sufficient safety information. The Basel-based ...

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency approved more than 100 pesticide products in 2017 and 2018 that contained ingredients widely considered to be the most dangerous still in use, including ...

WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency has approved use of the dangerous, previously-cancelled pesticide aldicarb and the medically important antibiotic streptomycin on citrus. The decision ...

Give a bee neonicotinoids, and it can become addicted. The pesticide, whose name literally means "nicotine-like," has been used commercially since the 1980s as a way to protect crops from being ...

TikTok prankster Charles Smith a.k.a. Wolfie Kahletti posted video to his social media of himself picking up a bottle of bug ...

Brazil became in 2008 the world's top consumer of agriculture pesticides (ahead of the US), and continues to use a range of dangerous pesticides banned in other countries, according to a study ...

A Los Angeles Times analysis revealed that legal cannabis contains comparable pesticide contamination rates as illicit weed. The surprising results expose the gaps in California’s cannabis ...

These include preventing illegal trafficking of chemicals and waste, introducing national laws and phasing out highly dangerous pesticides in agriculture by 2035. It also calls for a transition to ...