The recent deaths of 23 Indian schoolchildren was just the latest chapter in the country's long and troubled relationship with chemical pesticides. Host Carol Hills speaks about the problem with journalist Meera Subramanian.
The country's industrial wastelands could become the new landscape of sustainability.
Research shows that babies conceived during the spring growing period, when levels of agrichemicals in the water are at their highest, are more likely to have birth defects.
Officials say New Orleans homes that border a property where DDT, termite killer and Agent Orange were mixed are safe, but their own data calls that into question. One soil sample was the top hit for four banned insect killers in a series of post-Katrina
The EPA approves a pesticide that some leading scientists say is highly toxic to humans.
Author Cynthia Daniels says society's perception of gender roles- especially men's- may be based on outdated ideas of manliness, not taking into account some of men's reproductive health issues.
Watch out! Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a solar-powered robot capable of searching out and destroying- hopefully just- weeds in crop fields.
Author Cynthia Daniels says society's perception of gender roles- especially men's- may be based on outdated ideas of manliness, not taking into account some of men's reproductive health issues.
Researchers in South Africa document excessive levels of the pesticide DDT in women there.
As the energy bill goes to the Senate, the gasoline additive MTBE once again becomes a make or break issue.