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 ...

Motsoaledi states that a chemical classified as an organophosphate is responsible for the deaths of six children in Soweto.

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.

Terbufos is a chemical used in organophosphate insecticides to control insects ... they were found to be trading in a chemical called Aldicarb. During operations in Naledi, some spaza shop owners ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) found that specific insecticides, called ...

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 ...

The deaths, which shocked the community, were linked to Terbufos, a chemical found in organophosphate insecticides commonly ... were arrested for selling Aldicarb, a highly toxic and illegal ...