WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2015 - Weaver Popcorn, the second-largest popcorn supplier, announced a plan to drastically reduce the amount of neonicotinoids involved in the production of the popcorn it sells.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A beekeeper checking frames and caring for the hive. Photo by Getty Images. Over 14 million acres of Minnesota croplands such as ...

Colony Collapse Disorder—it sounds catastrophic and frightening. The Genetic Literacy Project’s Jon Entine separates fact from fiction. It’s estimated that over the past five years, some 30 percent of ...

The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has released a list of proposed mitigation measures to limit the use of four controversial and widely used neonicotinoid pesticides in California. Both a ...

Science and politics don’t mix well. In the United States, we’re witnessing rancorous policy debates over shale gas extraction (i.e. fracking) and GMOs in our foods. But in Europe, the hottest issue ...

Health impacts of neonicotinoids may go well beyond bees, according to a new University of Guelph study. U of G researchers found residues of the insecticides in the livers of wild turkeys, providing ...

Even as a special White House created task force is poised any day now to address concerns over supposedly vanishing honeybees, new research suggests that the very premise of the federal investigation ...

Most people probably don’t even realize there is a new class of pesticides on the market. Systemic pesticides like neonicotinoids and fipronil (neonics), have been around for about two decades, and ...

In a first-ever study investigating the risk of neonicotinoid insecticides to ground-nesting bees, University of Guelph researchers have discovered at least one species is being exposed to lethal ...

Giraldo Carratala, a Miami-Dade County mosquito control inspector, looks at mosquito larva in a sample of water that he took from a pool of standing water before using a pesticide to eradicate the ...

Born and raised in Colorado, Cory Kreft began working on a honey farm at 15 years old. He returned to beekeeping after college, eventually buying the business from his former boss. But in 2021, his ...