pesticide

While much of the United States government’s recent activity has focused on COVID-19, some agencies are continuing their work in ...

A new method developed by engineers at MIT may offer a starting point for delivering life-saving treatments to plants ravaged ...

[Citrus greening] disease has already decimated citrus groves in the other major citrus-producing states of Florida, California and Texas. According ...

The locust is considered the most deadly migratory parasite and a single swarm covering a square kilometer can be made ...

A Georgia woman made her initial appearance on federal charges of illegally importing and selling an unregistered pesticide, Toamit Virus ...

Europeans are panic-buying in the supermarkets around the continent .... The retailers are being overrun, but the only real shortage ...

As the world takes unprecedented measures to blunt the coronavirus pandemic, some commentators argue 'the cure is worse than the ...

In 16th century China, physicians found that inoculating healthy individuals with pus or dried scabs from someone infected with smallpox, ...

Each year, the pro-organic think tank Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases its 'Dirty Dozen,' a list of fruits and vegetables ...

Decisions made in the next year will be critical for the future use of the herbicide dicamba, a weed killer ...

Smaller players in the pesticide industry are angling to take advantage of a new and perhaps finite window to sell ...

Kevin Folta and Cameron English break down four of the latest headlines from the world of genetics and biotech ...

The ripple effect of the Coronavirus in China is being reported in the supply of active ingredients and fertilizers. Exactly ...

For hundreds of years, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine have used an herb called Stemona sessilifolia as a remedy for ...

Here's what you're actually getting for that 'organic' premium price ...

The European Commission decided on [Jan. 13] not to renew approval for a pesticide linked to harming bees, effectively banning ...

The House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources recently approved HR 2854, the 2019 Protect Our Refuges Act, prohibiting the ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) [Dec. 10] published the 2018 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual ...

The EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, highlighted the promotion of organic farming as a key aim for the new ...

If the UK replaces the EU's overly cautious biotech rules with a pro-innovation scheme, it could become a true global ...

A majority of EU countries voted to ban chlorpyrifos, an insecticide deemed unsafe for human health by the EU’s food ...

Agri-chemical manufacturers are putting pressure on the EU to prevent a ban of two disputed pesticides that damage the brain ...

Monsanto pleaded guilty to spraying a banned pesticide on the Hawaiian island of Maui, and agreed to pay $10.2 million ...

Importers of three toxic farm chemicals, which are set to be officially banned from Dec 1, have vowed they will ...

Going to national media with unpublished sensationalist claims is not without consequences ...

Leaders from the Humane Society and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals flanked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler ...

EU countries [Ocotber 22] voted not to extend the license of the insecticide thiacloprid when it expires at the end ...