(Beyond Pesticides, September 3, 2025) A study in Environmental Entomology shows that habitat and open space near agricultural fields become a killing field of pesticides, threatening biodiversity due ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dean Volenberg, leader of the viticulture program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, examines grape leaves in an undated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fumigant notice is posted in a field on Shoemake Ave near Hart-Ransom Elementary School in Modesto, Calif., on Friday Jan. 21, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When it is hotter outside, pesticides tend to evaporate faster, explains Nicole ...

Rich Pedroncelli / AP In a push to better protect farmworkers and communities, federal officials will now more closely weigh in on how pesticides that drift away from farm fields harm people.

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has reapproved products containing the dangerous, drift-prone pesticide dicamba to be sprayed on genetically engineered cotton ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 4, 2025) Comments on EPA proposal to bring back controversial use of herbicide dicamba due by Saturday, September 6, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET. With more than 90 percent of ...

In the Spotlight is a Modesto Bee series that digs into the high-profile local issues that readers care most about. Story idea? Email tips@modbee.com. Valley Improvement Projects released its ...

For two decades, Nick Pehle's grapes, pressed and distilled, have filled glasses at wineries across Missouri. Most seasons, the vines on his 20-acre farm in Etlah are clustered with different ...