The insecticide chlorpyrifos is a powerful tool for controlling various pests, making it one of the most widely used pesticides during the latter half of the 20th century.

A tractor sprays pesticide onto a field of potato plants. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images. A common pesticide coating on corn and soybean seeds has leached into Minnesota waterways, threatening ...

Birds in Connecticut are at risk from the use of a common class of insecticide, according to the Connecticut Audubon Society’s annual “State of the Birds” report. The group said neonicotinoids, or ...

Soon, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will no longer allow any amount of chlorpyrifos — a widely used pesticide — on food, the agency said Aug. 18. 1. Chlorpyrifos is an insecticide that’s ...

Editor's Note: The story has been updated with additional commentary. Higher prenatal exposure to a common pesticide, chlorpyrifos (CPF), was associated with a greater likelihood of brain ...

Nearly two-dozen of the most common pesticides used in America are linked to prostate cancer, a study warns. Stanford University researchers looked at exposure to 295 different kinds of the chemicals ...

The environmental impact of nine pesticides, commonly used in grape cultivation, may have been significantly underestimated, suggesting current pesticide risk assessment criteria need updating. The ...

Researchers found that foods such as spinach, strawberries, apples, potatoes and kale were among the top offenders. Others included peaches, nectarines, cherries, raisins and grapes.