The Cool Down on MSN1d
Scientists uncover surprising method to contain crop-devastating insect: 'A biological control agent'
"All crops in the world are susceptible." Scientists uncover surprising method to contain crop-devastating insect: 'A ...
Mongabay on MSN19h
Petition calls on EPA to tighten pesticide rules to protect bees
By Bobby Bascomb Insect conservation NGO the Xerces Society recently petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ...
Phys.org23d
Pesticide mixtures shown to be present in soil and plants all year round, not just during application times
Synthetic chemical pesticides are designed to be highly targeted. "However, many of these substances interfere with fundamental biological processes such as nerve conduction, cell division or ...
Simon Fraser University3y
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 432
ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSING OF PESTICIDES I: Pesticide biotransformation and its significance. INSECTICIDES Organochlorines, Organophosphorus compounds, Carbamates, Pyrethrins and Pyrethroids, ...
Center for Biological Diversity1y
Landmark Legal Settlement Locks in EPA Actions to Protect Endangered Species From Pesticides
“Pesticides take a devastating toll on imperiled wildlife and are a driving factor in the current insect apocalypse,” said Jonathan Evans, environmental health legal director at the Center for ...
Center for Biological Diversity2y
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Reverses Course, Asserts That Neurotoxic Pesticide Malathion Will Not Put a Single Protected Species At Risk of Extinction
The opinion even backtracked from a draft biological opinion released by the Service just last year, which also used the debunked Trump-era methodology promoted by the pesticide industry to determine ...
EurekAlert!29d
Pesticide impacts on bees more complex than expected
Neonicotinoid pesticides such as clothianidin are widely ... the European Commission (H2020), and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. This research was performed at QMUL ...