(Beyond Pesticides, October 16, 2025) An important new study links pesticides, antibiotics, and nitrogen fertilizers to the extreme global crisis of antibiotic resistance, raising serious concerns ...

(Beyond Pesticides, October 20, 2025) With the release of a study that links the use of nitrogen fertilizer in combination with antibiotic pesticides to escalating bacterial resistance, public health ...

Congressional activity and conflict over pesticides increased in the mid-1960s, including efforts to ban DDT, as a rising ...

In modern day agriculture, pesticides are essential to ensure high enough crop yields and food security. These chemicals, however, can adversely affect plant and animal life as well as the people ...

In view of the impacts inorganic pesticides have on human health, biodiversity and natural resources, reducing their use and banning the most dangerous among them is a major issue for tropical ...

Costa Rica is facing a pesticide crisis due to the high use of chemicals in agriculture and their harmful impacts on human health and ecosystems. Experts have repeatedly called for a transition to ...

“Pesticide and Nutrient Management: Application-Based Problem Solving in Agriculture” is a two-volume set designed to bring together science and theory with practice in the field. Pesticides, ...

Sustainable agriculture seeks to reconcile the need for reliable crop yields with the protection of human health and the environment. Pesticide management strategies have evolved from blanket chemical ...

A recent study by the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau shows extensive pesticide contamination in the landscape of the Upper Rhine Region. The research team led by Carsten Brühl shows for the ...

Pesticides are an integral component of US agriculture and account for about 4.5% of total farm production costs (Aspelin and Grube, 1999). Pesticide use in the United States averaged over 1.2 billion ...

The use of pesticides in cotton farming has shown some improvement over the years, particularly in the utilization of less harmful chemicals, but progress remains slow, according to a new report from ...