The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to limit certain uses of the widely used insecticide carbaryl. The carbamate pesticide is neurotoxic and poses health risks to workers and ...
A team of researchers led by Prof. Jiang Changlong from Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP), Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new sensing ...
We recently reported associations between urinary 1-naphthol (1N) levels and several intermediate measures of male reproductive health, namely sperm motility, serum testosterone levels, and sperm DNA ...
Federal researchers have found that two widely used pesticides significantly harms endangered Northwest salmon and steelhead species. The opinion could lead to a change in where and how the pesticides ...
Consumers will no longer find pesticides containing the ingredient carbaryl on store shelves. The Department of Pesticide Regulation this week announced new restrictions for residential consumers of ...
In an effort to save the trees in western Boulder County from a scourge of hungry mountain pine beetles in the mid-1970s, foresters doused tens of thousands of trees with a potent, cancer-causing ...
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, is not just home to great science minds, it also harbours some unique microorganisms. Recently, researchers have identified a soil bacterial strain from the ...
A POISON which Australians commonly apply in powder on their pets and dust or spray in their gardens to control fleas, ticks, caterpillars and aphids is still freely available in Sydney shops even ...