Pesticides

New research from the University of Oxford has revealed that bumblebees cannot taste pesticides present in nectar, even at lethal concentrations. This means bumblebees are not able to avoid contaminated nectar, putting them at high risk of…

You can smell the bees before you see them.Mixed between honey and pollen, the scent is overwhelmingly sweet as it wafts through the door in a shed placed on a rural piece of property in Amherstburg, Ont.When the door is opened that's when…

The co-chair of Canada’s scientific advisory committee has resigned his post over concerns about a lack of transparency and scientific oversight in pesticide management. Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a health sciences professor at Simon Fraser…

According to the Nutrition Business Journal (and in a statistic cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture), the market for organic food products in America reached $52 billion in 2021. Still, compared to the amount spent on food products…

A coalition of French environmental charities on Thursday accused the French state of negligence in regulating the use of pesticides, in a landmark legal case. Issued on: 01/06/2023 - 18:38…

Researchers at UCLA Health and Harvard have identified 10 pesticides that significantly damaged neurons implicated in the development of Parkinson's disease, providing new clues about environmental toxins' role in the disease. While…

By using precision gene engineering techniques, researchers at the Earlham Institute in Norwich have been able to turn tobacco plants into solar-powered factories for moth sex pheromones. Critically, they've shown how the production of…

Issued on: 06/04/2023 - 18:51 France's public health watchdog said Thursday mass testing of drinking water revealed traces from a banned pesticide in half the samples,…

Have you ever bitten into a plump, red strawberry, only to find it bland and watery? Certain pesticides might be responsible. A team reporting in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry has found that two common strawberry…

Issued on: 06/01/2023 - 22:09 Nearly 20 years after Caribbean islanders sued to hold the French government criminally responsible for the banana industry’s extended use of a…