Tag: herbicides
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup, is showing up...
Cynthia Curl, Boise State University and Carly Hyland, University of California, Berkeley
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Once the Callery pear tree was landscapers’ favorite – now states...
Ryan W. McEwan, University of Dayton
When people think of spring, they often picture flowers and trees blooming. And...
‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: 4 essential reads on pesticides and...
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a bestselling book that asserted that...
The herbicide dicamba was supposed to solve farmers’ weed problems –...
Bart Elmore, The Ohio State University
In October 2021 I was a guest on a popular podcast to discuss...
Male fertility is declining – studies show that environmental toxins could...
Ryan P. Smith, University of Virginia
In the U.S., nearly 1 in 8 couples struggles with infertility. Unfortunately, physicians...
While debate rages over glyphosate-based herbicides, farmers are spraying them all...
Marion Werner, University at Buffalo; Annie Shattuck, Indiana University, and Ryan Galt, University of California, Davis
As North America...
Does Monsanto’s Roundup cause cancer? Trial highlights the difficulty of proving...
Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, University of Connecticut
Does glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma? This question is at...
Farmers and cropdusting pilots on the Great Plains worried about pesticide...
David Vail, University of Nebraska – Kearney
It is easy to frame conservation as a clash between environmentalists and polluters. But this view can greatly...