With factories and farms silenced by the coronavirus shutdown, Albania’s bees have been busier than ever, stirring excitement among farmers expecting an unparalleled honey harvest thanks to a respite from pollution and pesticides.
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The European Commission unveiled plans Wednesday to protect biodiversity across the 27-nation bloc while building a more sustainable food system, insisting on the need to both reduce the use of pesticides and promote organic farming.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Two Dutch disinfection companies were Wednesday found liable for a 2017 tainted egg scandal that
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The toxin, a chemical relative of sarin gas used as a chemical weapon in World War II, has been linked to developmental problems in children.
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A Ninth Circuit panel heard oral argument Tuesday in a case involving the legality of dicamba, a pesticide farmers say is necessary to kill noxious weeds but environmentalists claim ravages ecology.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of cattle owners’ claim for damages against the federal government relating to the loss of livestock during a temporary fever tick quarantine. The owners claimed the government negligently rounded up the cattle using chutes and roping, and improperly applied an insecticide. The claims are barred by the quarantine exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act, the court ruled.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will stop using pesticides on mammals and limit the use of
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Nearly wiped out by agricultural pesticides in the 1950s, Louisiana’s state bird the brown pelican has made a tremendous comeback. Now, thanks to 150,000 cubic yards of Mississippi River sand and help from $18.7 million of BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement for the catastrophic oil spill a decade ago, one of the pelicans’ essential nesting grounds is also coming back.
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The manufacturer of a commonly used pesticide that has been linked to brain damage in children will stop making the chemical this year.
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Fireflies around the world are at risk of extinction due in part to habitat loss, pesticides and shockingly, artificial sources of light, according to new research released Tuesday.
Read moreBet you never tried killing aphids with cough medicine. Research published Wednesday isolated 10 new insect-killing compounds from bai bu, an herb long used by traditional Chinese medicine to treat everything from dry coughs to lice.
Read moreScientists have conducted the first successful field release experiment of a genetically modified moth that could fundamentally change how crops are protected from pests.
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The western monarch butterfly population wintering along California’s coast remains critically low for the second year in a row, a count by an environmental group released Thursday showed.
Read moreA federal judge denied Monsanto and BASF Corp.’s motion for summary judgment in a product liability suit accusing it of creating an “ecological disaster” by releasing a dicamba-tolerant seed with no corresponding dicamba herbicide.
Read moreGolden Lady LLC sued Pharmlabs Coachella Valley, Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation, et al. in superior court, claiming they failed to detect the presence of pesticides in plaintiff’s cannabis cartridges.
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A controversial pesticide linked to developmental problems in humans will be definitively banned in the EU in 2020 after a vote on Friday by member states, the European Commission said.
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The 1993 collapse of two fisheries in a Japanese lake could have been caused by neonicotinoids, the most widely used class of pesticides on the planet, scientists announced Thursday.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed without prejudice a complaint that bread in Panera sandwiches contains the pesticide glyphosate.
Read moreCalifornia cinched a deal Wednesday with pesticide manufacturers to remove one of the mostly widely used insecticides believed to contribute to brain damage in children from the market in 2020.
Read moreThe European Court of Justice dealt a blow Tuesday to the defense of French environmentalists who say they had a duty to damage cans of Roundup because of the insufficient warnings about weedkiller containing glyphosate.
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