herbicides

Organic growers see new role in the age of climate change

photo credit: Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News A robotic weeder that uses no herbicide, at the Organic Growers Summit in Monterey…

11 months ago

SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT: Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and contaminants of emerging concern in wastewater discharges to San Francisco Bay

The issue of water quality in the Delta has become increasingly important in recent years. The drought has made the…

1 year ago

Monitoring Aquatic Weed Control Methods to Preserve, Restore, and Enhance the Tahoe Keys Lagoons

While Lake Tahoe’s crystalline azure has lasted for eons, the changes wrought by past land uses in the basin have…

1 year ago

Freshwater ecosystems at risk due to glyphosate use

Photo: One of the few species that was found to be resistant to severe glyphosate contamination was Scapholeberis mucronata, a…

3 years ago

Hormone-Disrupting Weed Killer Taints Tap Water for Millions in Corn Belt

Seasonal spikes of atrazine–a weed killer that can disrupt hormones and harm developing fetuses–contaminate drinking water in corn-growing areas of…

6 years ago