Atrazine, propazine and simazine are safe to use according to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. The agency announced its interim decision regarding these herbicides Friday, answering questions for ...

ST. PAUL -- During the past half-century, atrazine has become one of the most widely used herbicides in Minnesota and the rest of the Midwest. Unfortunately, it also is top of the list in another ...

A Purdue study found that an agricultural herbicide alters reproductive and neuroendocrine genes during embryonic development in fish, a finding that will help establish a genetic profile to determine ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A popular herbicide is showing up in drinking water supplies, threatening its future use by Indiana farmers. Producers who use weed control products with the active ingredient ...

SAN FRANCISCO— New research on birth defects at extremely low concentrations and documentation of widespread ground- and drinking-water contamination has strengthened the case for banning the toxic ...

Life without atrazine would complicate weed management in corn, especially for sweet corn growers. A study at the University of Illinois looked at 175 sweet corn fields in the Midwest to find out just ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The amount of the herbicide atrazine that’s released into the environment in the United States is likely harming most species of plants and animals, including mammals, birds, ...

An important new report on atrazine was published yesterday and it’s about time. Pesticide Action Network and Land Stewardship Project have brought together the science and farming communities to make ...

It’s been one year since the Environmental Protection Agency decided to reevaluate the toxicity of atrazine, one of the most commonly used herbicides in the U.S. The agency’s review was expected to be ...

The countdown to a final decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underway that could impact the future use and efficacy of atrazine on corn, grain sorghum and sugarcane acres.

The herbicide atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, ...