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Neonicotinoids are neurotoxic pesticides commonly used in conventional agriculture since the early 1990s. They are now known to contribute to...
Jul 05, 2017
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A study from researchers in Ghana found that levels of pesticides contaminating reservoirs could be high enough that consuming fish from those...
May 11, 2016
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A recently published study in the journal Chemosphere sought to investigate the number of pesticide contaminants and...
May 04, 2016
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Pesticides enter waterways when they are washed off of plants and soils during rainstorms, eventually making their way to fresh water sources...
Dec 22, 2015
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Atrazine is one of the most widely used herbicides in the world, and chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate insecticide commonly applied to control...
Feb 01, 2015
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Fish populations are exposed to a large number of environmental pollutants that run off from agricultural, industrial and urban land. As...
Jan 23, 2015
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A recent study published in Chemosphere found that catfish collected from multiple freshwater sites in South Africa contained organochlorine pesticide...
Oct 07, 2014
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A recent review article published in Environmental Science Pollution Research seeks to understand how the widespread use of...
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