In today’s ruling, the court found APHIS failed to consider preventative strategies, the baseline conditions of butterflies, moths and native bees in spray areas, and the cumulative effects of its ...

For the most part, scrubbing with soap and water or using an all-purpose spray is enough to clean ... Disinfectants are pesticides, meaning substances that kill, repel or control pests like ...

The various regulatory systems for approving pesticides in operation around the world are crude and flawed. This has long ...

The sprayed areas turned brown and died, except the spot their feet covered, and thus, the spray didn't reach ... using products specifically designed for that purpose is advisable. Pesticides labeled ...

The Omicron variant which first emerged in late November 2021 has changed that. Part of it is Omicron itself - it's better at sneaking past defences built on exposure to older and different variants.

In many ways, human actions are hastening pests' evolution of resistance. Farmers spray higher doses of pesticide if the traditional dose doesn't kill, so genetic mechanisms that enable the pests ...

European leaders are reinstating coronavirus restrictions as the Omicron variant continues to spread across the continent. Germany and Portugal are among nations announcing post-Christmas curbs ...

In April, she’d begun to use a topical nasal-spray decongestant. The over-the-counter (OTC) drug worked like a charm. By summer, she was still using the spray daily. Yet it was helping for ...

The pesticide sprayer (typically either the farmer or a farm worker) is in direct contact with chemicals, which affect the skin and lungs. Eventually, chemicals render the soil infertile and ...

More than a billion pounds of pesticides are sprayed on U.S. farmlands ... In West Virginia, 351 schools fall within this ...

But pesticide use still poses major threats to imperiled wildlife and human health; in fact, since Carson's book was published, annual pesticide use has continuously increased in both pounds applied ...