Pesticide safety is extremely important. If the directions on the label are followed, both the applicator and the environment ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For many home gardeners, pesticides are an easy way to keep their ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved another pesticide that contains PFAS, often referred to as “forever chemicals” because they do not break down in the environment. The decision ...

The 2021 peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment shows that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms needed for healthy soil, ...

A version of this story appeared in Volume 103, Issue 17 All four pesticides contain a fully fluorinated methyl or methylene group, raising concerns that they will persist in soil and water for many ...

Farmers routinely use pesticides, whether organic or not, to control insects and weeds on our crops. This often results in pesticide exposures to farmers, and occasionally to us when a little bit of ...