05-11-2013A new U.S. Geological Study report suggests that chemicals found in nonstick cookware and water repellents could be affecting tree…
31-10-2013New York City residents are more highly exposed to two types of widely used pesticides than the U.S. average, according…
31-10-2013In the closing years of the nineteenth century German scientists sought for the ‘silver bullet’ – an elixir to relieve…
30-10-2013Early-life exposure to the herbicide atrazine makes frogs more susceptible to death from chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis), a fungal disease implicated…
29-10-2013In less than 20 years, neonicotinoids have become the most widely used class of insecticides with a global market share…
23-10-2013New Zealand is facing an invasion of Argentine ants (Linepithema humile), which compete with native southern ants (Monomorium antarcticum). The…
22-10-2013Butterflies in Singapore have decreased in both number and variety since the 1980s. Excluding new butterfly species, some 117 are…
21-10-2013The Associated Press’ report described pesticide use near heavily populated areas, children being regularly exposed to harmful agrochemicals, the contamination…
18-10-2013Conservationists have urged the environment secretary, Owen Paterson, to use the money newly available from the EU's common agricultural policy…
18-10-2013Something is very wrong in Wellington County, Ontario – Jim Coneybeare says his bees are dying at an alarming rate.…
