Introduction Pesticide self-poisoning accounts for 14%–20% of global suicides. South Korea banned paraquat and eight ...

Pesticides have long been used in farming to protect crops from voracious critters that can decimate yields. However, the harmful chemicals they contain do more than kill the bad bugs. According to a ...

A new study shows distinct effects of neonicotinoid pesticide exposure in different bumble bee body parts, explaining why pesticides have diverse harmful effects and highlighting the need for more ...

(Beyond Pesticides, December 2, 2025) Recently published in Reproductive Toxicology, researchers in Denmark and Iceland investigate the impacts of pesticides on sex hormones, finding that “prenatal ...

For farmers, sometimes the easiest way to save a crop or prevent catastrophic insect damage is to spray a pesticide. But this ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 10, 2025) Published earlier this year, a review of over 1,700 studies in Nature Communications finds pesticides affect a diverse range of nontarget organisms and ...

The global food system relies heavily on pesticides to protect crops from pests, diseases, and weeds. But this dependence comes at a cost: declining biodiversity, soil degradation, collapsing insect ...

Smaller species are most affected. Pesticides are among the biggest threats to the life in soil, harming and killing worms, mites and insects that help to maintain soil fertility. Meanwhile, ...

I. The transport and accumulation of pesticides in environments and ecosystems / Roy Hansberry, Chrm. -- Global distribution of pesticides / V.H. Freed -- Translocation of pesticides in the ...

The pesticide, dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, is used to control weeds on crops like broccoli and brussels sprouts.

Researchers led by Yasunori Ichihashi at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan recently examined how different kinds of ...