Pesticides present in pet flea and tick treatments pose a risk to human health and the environment - but monthly application as a preventative measure isn’t essential.

Organic farms can have mixed effects on pesticide use. A new study finds that clustering organic fields could offer the most benefit.

Nano-enabled pesticides could pose huge risks and they aren’t being regulated effectively enough yet.

When dads are exposed to DDT, it can trigger changes to sperm that may raise the risk of birth defects and disease in their future children.

The six-year-late UK national action plan for the sustainable use of pesticides is finally due but experts doubt it will be radical enough.

Studies have struggled to capture how pesticides affect bees outside of a lab.

Green plants produce a specific gas when under attack to both directly ward off herbivores and pathogens and indirectly lure in herbivore predators.

New research provides evidence for the first time that the primary chemical in Roundup is reaching people in nearby homes, and it isn’t just from the food they eat.

Inert ingredients are added for purposes other than killing pests and are not required under federal law to be tested for safety or identified on pesticide labels.

Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent research takes a much more skeptical view.