The results of the studies investigated the association between exposure to organochlorine pesticides and neurodevelopmental problems display inconsistent results. Whereas some studies found ...

The Encinitas City Council voted to uphold the approval of The Cove, denying a local group's appeal over environmental ...

Occupational exposure to pesticides increases the risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD) in later life, according to a longitudinal population-based cohort study published in ...

and organochlorine pesticides. These intercorrelations make it difficult in epidemiologic studies to specify which compound(s) are responsible for a certain biologic effect. All these POCs are ...

A subsequent study published in 2019 linked organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, to worsening ...

Plastic in the ocean or bodies of water also attracts pollutants like heavy metals and organic contaminants, such as organochlorine pesticides, which are attracted to plastic’s water-repellent surface ...

It has the menacing sound of an Alfred Hitchcock movie: Millions of rats aren't even getting sick from pesticide doses that once killed them. In one county in England, these "super rats" have ...

As with many birds of prey, the species suffered huge losses in the 1950s and 1960s due to organochlorine pesticides such as DDT, which caused egg shell thinning. The last pair bred on Culver ...

BOGOTA, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Scientists in Colombia say they have developed a novel food supplement that protects bees' brains from pesticides, keeping the insects safe from neurological damage ...

Volunteers wore backpacks with air-collection tubes on everyday errands. One of the pesticides has been shown to be harmful to children. A recent UC Davis study found that as Central Valley ...

Getting rid of your unused pesticides or pesticide containers takes time and proper steps. As such, it can take awhile to get to the top of your to-do list. “Pesticide disposal is one of those ...

The peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Environmental Injustice in the USA: Root Causes, Current Regulatory Reinforcement and a Path Forward (2022) finds that Black, Indigenous and people of color and ...