Pesticides are becoming more toxic and just about every country is using more of them year after year, despite a UN target to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California’s top agricultural counties conducted just one safety inspection for every 146 times pesticides were ...

Read another story in the series of Capital & Main’s investigation into the health and safety of child farmworkers in California. Hundreds of thousands of times each year in California, farmers and ...

Nigeria has banned a list of organochlorine pesticides since 2008 due to their potential health effects, but lab tests recently revealed the presence of such substances in farm soil, vegetables and ...

Fruits and vegetables are the MVPs of your diet thanks to their vitamins, minerals, and health-boosting nutrients. However, despite their impressive nutritional profiles, some produce carry high ...

A 17-year-old farmworker, who began laboring in the fields when he was 13, holds fresh strawberries from the Salinas Valley. (Photo by Barbara Davidson/Special for Capital & Main) Hundreds of ...