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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago, Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, detailed the devastating impacts of the pesticide DDT on bird populations. DDT was especially harmful to species at the top of the ...

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 the global debate over neonicotinoid pesticides, the company that makes most of them has relied on one primary argument to defend its product: The evidence that these chemicals, commonly called ...

This story is being co-published with the Genetic Literacy Project. On Thursday, Science published a large-scale study on the relationship between bees and a pesticide, neonicotinoids. It got quite a ...