Increasingly, pesticides are being blamed for rising cancer rates across America’s agricultural communities. Hardin County, home to around 800 farms, has a pesticide use rate more than four times the ...
The chair of the Agriculture Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, in releasing the Republican 2026 Farm Bill draft last Friday afternoon, is challenging three core safeguards that are seen ...
Environmental advocates are growing worried the Trump Administration is unlikely to impose stricter restrictions on pesticides as part of its push to “Make American Healthy Again.” Earlier this year, ...
An unlikely group is coalescing around the health secretary’s drive for restrictions on atrazine, which is linked to cancer, birth defects and low sperm counts. By Hiroko Tabuchi In Europe, the ...
The Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing “forever chemicals” as an active ingredient, dismissing concerns about health and environmental impacts ...
A sprayer applies herbicides in Oregon's Willamette Valley in this Capital Press file photo. Environmental advocates are frustrated that a "Make American Healthy Again" report does not include ...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 25, 2025) A literature review of over 90 scientific articles in Agriculture documents microplastics’ (MPs) increase in the bioavailability, persistence, and toxicity of ...
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The toxic burden of pesticides is growing all around the world
Pesticides are becoming more toxic and just about every country is using more of them year after year, despite a UN target to ...
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...
For farmers, sometimes the easiest way to save a crop or prevent catastrophic insect damage is to spray a pesticide. But this ...
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...
Eating a lot of fruits or vegetables with higher levels of pesticides may raise the levels of dozens of pesticides in your urine, according to a new study. “We compared the amount of pesticides on ...
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