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Mixture of Common Pesticide and Environmental Stressors Dramatically Elevates Unregulated Adverse Effects

Researchers are revealing the interactions between two types of environmental stress—food deprivation and heat stress—and ...
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Lawsuit Challenges TruGreen Chemical Lawn Care Company for Deceptive Safety Claims; Pesticide Applications Stopped by Some States During COVID-19 Crisis as Nonessential

« Safer Practices and Disinfectants for Coronavirus Identified by CDC, As EPA Advances Toxic Products, Suspends Public Health and Environmental Protections What’s on My Seeds? Study Finds Most Don’t ...
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Group Seeks Elimination of Pesticides in Parks in the New Year with Request to Local Leadership Nationwide

For Beyond Pesticides, the start of the new year is an opportunity to take steps that prioritize health and the health of the ...
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Bat Conservation Is Good for the Environment and Agricultural Productivity, A Natural Alternative to Pesticides

Pecan orchard Swift River Pecans collaborates with nonprofit Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation, emphasizing the symbiotic ...
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Holiday Wishes and Looking Toward Our Organic Future for the Common Good in the New Year

Technical support for transitioning communities to organic land management to protect ecosystems and the organisms that ...
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EPA’s Momentous Decision to Ban the Weed Killer Dacthal/DCPA: An Anomaly or a Precedent?

(Beyond Pesticides, August 8, 2024) With the use of its emergency authority—not used in nearly 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on August 7 banned a pesticide (the weed killer ...
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Beyond Pesticides Urges Ban of Weed Killer Paraquat Using Same Criteria Used in the Landmark Dacthal Ban

(Beyond Pesticides, October 1, 2024) While the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received accolades for its August 7, 2024, decision to ban the herbicide Dacthal (or DCPA—dimethyl ...
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Adding to Wide Body of Science, Study Finds Pesticide Residues Threaten Health of Soil Microbiome

The 145 soil samples were obtained from citrus orchards (26), vineyards (29), and vegetable gardens (90) and range in crop types, 48 of which were from leafy vegetables, 4 from brassicas, 9 from ...
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Climate-Friendly Organic Systems are More Profitable for Farmers than Chemical-Intensive Agriculture

(Beyond Pesticides, December 2, 2022) The longest-running — four-decade — investigation comparing organic and conventional grain-cropping approaches in North America is reporting impressive results ...
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Study Cites Ban of Bee-Killing Pesticides in EU, Inaction in U.S. and Canada

(Beyond Pesticides, September 4, 2025) A review of agricultural neonicotinoid insecticide regulations, published in Pest Management Science, evaluates the varied approaches being taken for bans and ...
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EPA Overlooks Glyphosate and Roundup Ingredients’ Cancer, DNA Damage, and Multigenerational Effects

(Beyond Pesticides, March 10, 2022) Glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides (GBH) like Roundup® induce DNA damage and alter biological mechanisms (gene regulatory microRNAs [miRNAs or miRs]) ...
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Farmed Salmon Just as Toxic to Human Health as Junk Food

(Beyond Pesticides, June 16, 2022) Farmed salmon serves as an inferior food source, accumulating more toxic chemicals in fatty tissue with fewer healthy nutrient properties based on a study from the ...