A French court has rejected a compensation claim against US multinationals by Nicaraguan farm workers poisoned by the ...

Nigeria has banned a list of organochlorine pesticides since 2008 due to their potential health effects, but lab tests recently revealed the presence of such substances in farm soil, vegetables and ...

Farmers would need the a "prescription" from a third party to keep using the pesticides they say avoids fence-to-fence ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 5, 2025) A biomonitoring study in Environmental Geochemistry and Health, focused on small-scale farms in Pahang, Malaysia, analyzes levels of essential and toxic elements in ...

Heavyweights in the agricultural industry are lobbying for the continued use of pesticides in crop production after the Make America Healthy Again Commission released a report targeting pesticide ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 4, 2025) In March, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) announced the launch of SprayDays California, “a first-of-its-kind statewide system designed to ...

In modern day agriculture, pesticides are essential to ensure high enough crop yields and food security. These chemicals, however, can adversely affect plant and animal life as well as the people ...

A groundbreaking study has illuminated the alarming relationship between pesticide exposure and the development of cancer, suggesting that these widely used agricultural chemicals may pose a risk on ...

Pesticides are an integral component of US agriculture and account for about 4.5% of total farm production costs (Aspelin and Grube, 1999). Pesticide use in the United States averaged over 1.2 billion ...

West Virginia lawmakers have before them legislation that would restrict the use of pesticides linked to toxic health effects ...

When it comes to healthy eating, fruits and vegetables reign supreme. But along with all their vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients can come something else: an unhealthy dose of dangerous ...