New-generation pesticides are often developed to replace earlier, more toxic chemicals in effort to clean up the environmental and human health impacts of these older agricultural pesticides....
Apr 19, 2021
A recent study in the journal Environmental Pollution is the first to show that chronic exposure to pesticides reduces fitness and reproduction of birds. Populations of farmland birds have been...
Mar 01, 2021
DDT is an insecticide commonly used to control mosquito-transmitted malaria in the 1900s, but was eventually banned across the globe because of extremely adverse side effects on human and...
Dec 02, 2019
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Neonicotinoids are neurotoxic pesticides commonly used in conventional agriculture since the early 1990s. They are now known to contribute to...
Sep 30, 2019
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A six-month diet interventional study recently published in the journal Environment International shows that eating mostly organic produce can...
Sep 23, 2019
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Exposure to harsh pesticides like organophosphates is linked to symptoms of neurobehavioral issues in children. New research uses...
Sep 02, 2019
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A study recently published in the Journal of Applied Ecology found that organic agriculture can significantly increase the health of honeybee...
Aug 12, 2019
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A recent study published in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation found that farmers are more likely to purchase less expensive pesticides, and...
Jun 26, 2019
Non-organic milk tests positive for illegal antibiotics, high levels of growth hormones
and controversial pesticide contaminants
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Feb 25, 2019
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A study published in the Journal Herpetological Review found a greater diversity of anurans (frogs, toads and tree frogs) in organic rice fields...
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