Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves. With the new system, farmers could ...

From the early 1970s until 1993, chlordecone, an "extremely toxic and persistent" pesticide, was used in banana plantations ...

In 2008, when China banned a pesticide used in tomatoes, metamidophos, Brazil imported some 4200 tons. During the first two months of 2009, 4400 tonnes of the chemical have entered Brazil.

As the idea of “regenerative agriculture” and using soil as a carbon sponge to help fight climate change gains momentum around the world, the findings of this study confirm that reducing pesticide use ...

Other countries outlawed the pesticide, but France acquired ... By the time France finally banned it in 1993, around one-sixth of the world's chlordecone had been used in the Caribbean islands.