The EPA recently approved a new pesticide known as isocycloseram. The chemical’s approval has drawn backlash from ...

I’ve finally worked my way around to the GMO question that I care about most: Are genetically modified crops boon or bane for the environment? The answer is big enough, and important enough, that it’s ...

Although it's associated with nasty cigarettes, the tobacco plant is also a potential source of vaccines, biofuel and antibiotics. Now, a chemical from the plant is also being used as a bug repellent ...

Using their state-of-the-art diagnostic approaches the team at Rothamsted, who receive strategic funding from BBSRC, have identified the underlying mechanisms of this resistance, with a view to ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to limit certain uses of the widely used insecticide carbaryl. The carbamate pesticide is neurotoxic and poses health risks to workers and ...

The cabbage seedpod weevil was a key issue for canola growers in many areas of the prairies last year...especially Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Manitoba Agriculture’s Entamologist John Gavloski, spoke ...

A large study weighs up the existing evidence on the impact of GM crops on local insect life, providing some much-needed scientific rigour to the GM debate. In a debate so fuelled by emotion and ...