Tag: pesticide

Under a new policy, the Environmental Protection Agency will now take into account impacts of pesticides on species listed under the Endangered Species Act before allowing the chemicals to be...

Pesticides that are used to stymie the spread of invasive insects eating their way through eastern U.S. forests may be affecting wood frog development nearby. Hemlock woolly adelgids (Adelges tsugae) are...

Wildlife researchers in California had a mystery. On March 17, 2017, residents in a part of the town of Modesto reported a number of dead goldfinches (Spinus tristis) along the...

Between the 1950s and 1960s, airplanes spread more than 6,000 tons of the pesticide DDT onto remote forests in New Brunswick, Canada during one of the largest insecticide spray programs...

Maryland officials are cracking down on the use of a banned pesticide believed to have killed at least 19 bald eagles in the state since 2016. The state’s Agriculture Department...

The European Union plans to ban one of the most common pesticides in the world due to concerns about the pesticide posing a high risk to amphibians and fish as...

Deer may get the notoriety for spreading the ticks carry Lyme disease, but it’s mice that often inject ticks with the bacteria in the first place, researchers say. In an...