WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A popular herbicide is showing up in drinking water supplies, threatening its future use by Indiana farmers. Producers who use weed control products with the active ingredient ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is approving the first pesticides for application on industrial hemp fields and proposing to allow continued use of atrazine herbicide on corn and other crops. Hemp ...

SAN FRANCISCO— New research on birth defects at extremely low concentrations and documentation of widespread ground- and drinking-water contamination has strengthened the case for banning the toxic ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has a lot of feedback to sift through — most of it critical — following the end of its comment period Friday on proposed measures designed to reduce the chances of ...

Each spring, the chemical herbicide atrazine is spread on corn and sorghum fields throughout eastern Kansas. When the rains come, atrazine residue is washed away, traveling into surface water and ...

Paul Wotzka was a low-profile hydrologist, employed by the state of Minnesota, until he was fired in March after speaking out against atrazine, a widely-used herbicide. Since then he has been in the ...

Exposure to the widely used pesticide atrazine leads to heritable changes in the gut microbiome of wasps, finds a study publishing February 4 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe. Additionally, the ...

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It’s been only three years since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) after one of the most exhaustive scientific investigations of a commercial product ever undertaken, reauthorized use of ...

An international team of researchers has reviewed the evidence linking exposure to atrazine -- an herbicide widely used in the US and more than 60 other nations -- to reproductive problems in animals.

Atrazine, one of the most commonly used herbicides in the world, has been shown to affect reproduction of fish, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study. "Concentrations of atrazine ...