Avoiding harmful insecticides like chlorpyrifos (both for their own health and the health of farmworkers, who are directly exposed to these toxins in the fields) is one of the main reasons many...

New-generation pesticides are often developed to replace earlier, more toxic chemicals in effort to clean up the environmental and human health impacts of these older agricultural pesticides....

A recent study presented at the EurAsia Waste Management Symposium found that when organic cotton is substituted for conventional cotton in denim production, 11 indicators of global warming, human...

Soil health hinges on robust communities of soil bacteria and insects. However, a recent science review published in Frontiers in Environmental Science shows that pesticides sprayed both above and...