These self-paced, online eLearning courses can prepare you for the Indiana pesticide certification exams or introduce workers to the basics in your field. These courses present 5 to 8 hours of ...

The peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Environmental Injustice in the USA: Root Causes, Current Regulatory Reinforcement and a Path Forward (2022) finds that Black, Indigenous and people of color and ...

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, ...

Volunteers wore backpacks with air-collection tubes on everyday errands. One of the pesticides has been shown to be harmful to children. A recent UC Davis study found that as Central Valley ...

In groundbreaking new tests, we sent school lunches to the Health Research Institute, an accredited lab in Iowa, to hunt for what standards don’t cover: heavy metals, pesticides, and veterinary ...

Isomers are compounds with the same molecular formulae but different structural formulae. They have the same number of each type of atom. They can be part of the same or different homologous ...

Agricultural pesticides sold to farmers ready-mixed into "cocktails" can kill twice as many bees, according to an analysis of 90 studies. Each measured the impact of environmental stresses such as ...

Elsewhere, an orange from Tunisia contained malathion, a pesticide classified as "probably carcinogenic", banned in the EU since 2008. The documentary cites research done by the NGO network ...

Pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables are the top food safety fear among consumers in five countries. Scientists from the not-for-profit group CABI used survey data from 8,644 people in ...

Experts found that the neonicotinoid disrupts bees' ability to navigate and reproduce The UK government has given emergency approval for the use of a pesticide banned because of the harm it can ...

Chemical pesticides are substances that are sprayed onto crops to kill organisms that can reduce plant growth such as weeds, insects and fungi. Weeds compete with the crop plants for resources ...

A joint investigation by The Los Angeles Times and cannabis industry newsletter WeedWeek has revealed alarming levels of ...