The insecticide aldicarb was known for four decades among farmers for its effectiveness against nematodes and early season insects. Nonetheless, tarnished by several high-profile safety incidents ...

WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency has approved use of the dangerous, previously-cancelled pesticide aldicarb and the medically important antibiotic streptomycin on citrus. The decision ...

WASHINGTON— In what will likely be the first major pesticide decision under the Biden Environmental Protection Agency, the agency will consider allowing use of the dangerous, previously cancelled ...

The deaths, which shocked the community, were linked to Terbufos, a chemical found in organophosphate insecticides commonly ...

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says a chemical called Organophosphate is the cause of the death of six children from ...

Rachel Carson predicted such resistance in her groundbreaking book Silent Spring, published soon after the chemical insecticide glory days of the 1950s. And the problem is getting worse.

South African officials have named the chemical behind the deaths of six children. Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi said the children from Naledi, ...

The products consumed which poisoned the two ravens, which are large all-black corvid birds, were confirmed to be ...

One of the main discoveries of a new study is the identification of new variants in genes associated with insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes, the primary vectors of malaria in West ...

Because of this, it has been used as a safe microbial insecticide for over 50 years to control pest caterpillars. Bt insecticides are popular with organic farmers because they are considered ...

South African leaders call for urgent government action to combat rising food poisoning cases linked to spaza shops, ...

Systemic insecticides, molluscicides and nematicides spread through the vascular system of the plants and kill pests that are feeding on the plants.