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Topic: pesticides

Farmer spraying pesticide on field (Getty Image/Toa55)

Study links 22 pesticides to cancer

Michael La Corte
An Arnold Air Force Base team member swabs the muzzle of a tricolored bat in a cave near Arnold AFB, Tennessee, Dec. 5, 2022, to contribute to a study by Virginia Tech concerning the species and white-nose syndrome. WNS is named for a fungus that often looks like white fuzz on the muzzles of infected bats. Currently, there is not a cure for the disease. ((U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett))

Bat deaths linked to infant mortality

Troy Farah
Cockroach in the bathroom sink (Getty Images/ArLawKa AungTun)

How to beat a cockroach infestation

Matthew Rozsa
Harvesting alfalfa crop, aerial view. (Getty Images)

Farm bill to weaken pesticide protection

Marin Scotten
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Tomato (Getty Images/Glowimages)

Pesticides multiply under EPA proposal

Sharon Lerner - ProPublica
Fruit and vegetable stand at a local market (Getty Images/Emilija Manevska)

High levels of pesticides are in produce

Joy Saha
Fresh food and vegetables at a Farmer's Market (Rodger Shagam/Getty Images)

The ongoing prevalence of pesticides

Olivia Rosane - Common Dreams
This albino sloth was named Goldie by the Sloth Conservation Foundation (Dr. Rebecca Cliffe/The Sloth Conservation Foundation)

Why Costa Rica's sloths may be mutating

Levi Stallings
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Assortment of used at-home pregnancy tests (Getty Images/Catherine McQueen)

Our fertility crisis drives inequality

Matthew Rozsa
Farmer spraying pesticide on field (Getty Image/Toa55)

Pesticides are reducing sperm counts

Matthew Rozsa
Farmer Spraying Chemicals (Getty Images/Edwin Tan)

Glyphosate in 98% of adolescents' urine

Matthew Rozsa
Firefly (Getty Images/Jeremy_Hogan)

Can we save fireflies from extinction?

Pamela Appea
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A Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica) collecting nectar from a blooming blossoms of an azaleas (Rhododendron) bush. (Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Can we protect bees from pesticides?

Matthew Rozsa
Rusting tanks inside the now derelict Union Carbide factory compound. These tanks used to store methyl isocyanide, the toxic chemical that leaked on December 23, 1984 killing at least 5,000 people in the following 72 hours and many thousands more subsequently. (Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The '80s disaster still destroying lives

Matthew Rozsa
Farmer spraying pesticides at a tobacco farm (Getty Images/Vithun Khamsong)

How forever chemicals get into our food

Matthew Rozsa
"The Last of Us" (HBO)

"Last of Us" fungus is used to kill bugs

Troy Farah
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Agricultural worker spraying his crops (Getty Images)

How pesticides intensify global warming

Maria Parazo Rose - Grist
Farmers spraying pesticide on a field (Getty Images/Arun Roisri)

'Silent Spring' turns 60

Jennifer Weeks - The Conversation
A road guard removes weeds from the edge of a cycle path using a hot foam machine. (Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Hot foam is the cool new herbicide

Troy Farah
Dusting a broccoli seed bed, the speeding plane throws out a tail of insect-killing dust that gets underneath as well as on top of the small leaves. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The toxic legacy of DDT

Andru Okun - Undark
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Macro image of a dead bee on a leaf (Getty Images)

Blumenauer wants to save pollinators

Lisa Held - Civil Eats
Macro image of a dead bee on a leaf (Getty Images)

A pollen-size "pill" for bees

Matthew Rozsa
Mike Lewis and Shelby Floyd in a hemp field in Kentucky. (Photo credit: ) (Anna Carson Dewitt Photography, courtesy of Third Wave Farms)

Cannabis cultivation: patchwork policies

Nate Seltenrich - FairWarning
A protected wildlife habitat sign on Bowman's Beach. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Pesticides in wildlife refuges?

Matthew Rozsa
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