The country has learned a lot since Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring alerted us to the hazards of poisonous chemicals. But pesticide use still poses major threats to imperiled wildlife and ...

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency approved more than 100 pesticide products in 2017 and 2018 that contained ingredients widely considered to be the most dangerous still in use, including ...

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 ...

Several factors have contributed to this growing anxiety, according to the scientists, including the widespread use of synthetic pesticides and low adoption of non-chemical pest control methods.

A pesticide which can harm bees has been approved for use in 2022. Emergency use of a product containing the chemical thiamethoxam has been authorised in England because of a virus which affects ...

Children face much higher hazards than adults from pesticide exposure. Their small size and developing organ systems, propensity to crawl and play near the ground, tendency for frequent hand to mouth ...

Furthermore, several EU non-approved pesticides were repeatedly found in randomly sampled food grown in the EU territory at levels exceeding the legal limits. These results indicate that there is ...

PFA chemicals, used in some pesticides, were identified in a range of foods in 2022, according to results from the latest government testing. Called ‘forever chemicals’, because they can take ...

I am a law professor at the University of Chicago and a global expert on contract law and consumer market regulation. I am the co-author of a recent book titled More Than You Wanted to Know, which ...

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 ...

"Characters" are those fictive beings in novels whose coherent patterns of behavior make them credible as people. "Character" is also used to refer to the capacity—or incapacity—of individuals to ...

My current research is concerned with how literature reconceptualizes mental process by staging literary characters in embodied interactions with the environment. To help theorize the formation of ...