Tag: Pesticides
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...
Unlike the US, Europe is setting ambitious targets for producing more...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
President Joe Biden has called for an all-of-government response to climate change that looks...
The EPA is banning chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used on food...
Gina Solomon, University of California, San Francisco
On Aug. 18, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it...
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...
To help insects, make them welcome in your garden – here’s...
Brian Lovett, West Virginia University
As winter phases into spring across the U.S., gardeners are laying in supplies and...
Do wasps have a queen like bees do?
Caralyn Zehnder, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
Better rat control in cities starts by changing human behavior
Michael H. Parsons, Fordham University and Jason Munshi-South, Fordham University
For centuries, rats have thrived in cities because of human behavior. In response, humans have...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
