Tag: Pesticides
Why California is banning chlorpyrifos, a widely-used pesticide: 5 questions answered
Gina Solomon, University of California, San Francisco
Editor’s note: California, the top U.S. food-producing state, is ending use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide associated with neurodevelopmental...
Organic food health benefits have been hard to assess, but that...
Cynthia Curl, Boise State University
“Organic” is more than just a passing fad. Organic food sales totaled a record US$45.2 billion in 2017, making it...
Genetically modified mosquitoes may be best weapon for curbing disease transmission
Jason Rasgon, Pennsylvania State University
Mosquitoes are some of the most deadly creatures on the planet. They carry viruses, bacteria and parasites, which they transmit...
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...
Why it’s time to curb widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides
John F. Tooker, Pennsylvania State University
Planting season for corn and soybeans across the U.S. corn belt is drawing to a close. As they plant,...
Would Rachel Carson eat organic?
Robert Paarlberg, Harvard University
Rachel Carson, who was born on May 27, 1907, and launched the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book “Silent Spring,”...
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...
Healthy to eat, unhealthy to grow: Strawberries embody the contradictions of...
Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz
Agricultural abundance is a pillar of the California dream. In 2016 the state turned out more than US$45...
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...
