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Terbufos is a highly toxic agricultural pesticide. Image via Flickr by C. de Bode/CGIAR (CCBY-NC-SA2.0).

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Jul 2025
Banner image of buildings in New York, U.S., by Dietmar Rabich via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jun 2025
A. rugioperculatus activity observed in Florida.

Invasive whiteflies pose a new threat to Bangladesh’s cash crops

Abu Siddique 15 May 2025
A fall armyworm rests upon a maize leaf it has just destroyed

Solutions needed as climate change & land use fuel global crop pest menace

Sean Mowbray 7 May 2025
The iconic Earthrise photograph, snapped by an Apollo 8 astronaut on the first manned mission to the moon on Christmas Eve, 1968. Image courtesy of NASA.

Earth Day check-in: Planetary boundaries in peril

Bobby Bascomb 22 Apr 2025
Harvested American ginseng.

As US agroforestry grows, federal funding freeze leaves farmers in the lurch

Sarah Derouin 1 Apr 2025
Beekeepers monitoring hive boxes at Kazirhat, Shariatpur.

Indiscriminate pesticide use threatens Bangladesh honey bees

Sadiqur Rahman 27 Mar 2025

Court orders Trump administration to address pesticide risks to endangered species

Bobby Bascomb 20 Mar 2025
a solar farm by Vinaykumar8687 via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY-SA4.0).

Solar farm expansion in India brings concerns of reckless herbicide use

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2025

Fossil fuel, plastic, and agrichemical companies coordinate social media on climate change, study finds.

Bobby Bascomb 13 Feb 2025

Petition calls on EPA to tighten pesticide rules to protect bees

Bobby Bascomb 12 Feb 2025

Grassroots efforts sprout up to protect Central America’s Trifinio watershed

Maxwell Radwin 16 Dec 2024

Monarch butterflies proposed for U.S. federal protection

Bobby Bascomb 13 Dec 2024
A pale spear-nosed bat covered in pollen.

Brazil natural landscape degradation drives toxic metal buildup in bats

Sean Mowbray 11 Dec 2024

Pesticide exposure drives up rural women’s cancer risk in Brazil farming belt

Mayala Fernandes 5 Dec 2024

Six months after its worst floods, Rio Grande do Sul works to bounce back

Shi En Kim 28 Oct 2024

Climate change and agrochemicals pose lethal combo for Amazonian fish

Tiago da Mota e Silva 17 Oct 2024

EPA releases a strategy to protect endangered species from insecticides

Bobby Bascomb 1 Aug 2024

Minerals for agricultural use can already be found in Amazonia

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Jul 2024
A bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

Study finds best plants for bee health and conservation in North America

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2024

Brazil’s new pro-agribusiness pesticide law threatens Amazon biodiversity

André Schröder 3 Jul 2024
Farmer Florence Ochieng harvests green maize in Trans-Nzoia, Kenya.

Kenyan farmers turn to WhatsApp & AI tools to combat crop diseases

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 27 Jun 2024
Coffee beans on a plant.

As coffee expands in Bangladesh hills, conservationists worry about ecosystems

Abu Siddique 21 May 2024

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2024

Afro-Brazilian communities fight a rain of pesticides & the company behind it

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 24 Apr 2024
Farming in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand limits agricultural land sales amid protests & tourism development

Swati Thapa 22 Apr 2024
A tapir amid a harvested cornfield in northern Mato Grosso, west-central Brazil, in a transition area between the Cerrado and the Amazon.

Tapirs in Brazil’s Cerrado inspire research on human health & pesticides

Michael Esquer 10 Apr 2024
Cows in a farm with trees.

New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand ‘climate-smart’ acres

Sarah Derouin 25 Mar 2024
A farmer shows an unpeeled corn.

Fertilizer management could reduce ammonia pollution from 3 staple crops: Study

Claire Asher 18 Mar 2024
Fakir Altaf Hussain, a fisher in Bangladesh, fishing in his pond.

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Sean Mowbray 6 Mar 2024
A farmer spraying pesticides in a rice field.

Scientists and doctors raise global alarm over hormone-disrupting chemicals

Alden Wicker 4 Mar 2024

Night light, habitat loss & pesticides threaten Brazil’s bioluminescent insects

Bernardo Araujo 1 Mar 2024

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