Swarms of desert locusts have swept over Yemen's capital Sanaa, ravaging corps and exacerbating the country's already acute food insecurity. The shortage of pesticides, equipment and funding because
OnlineretailergiantAmazononThursdayreachedasettlementwiththeU.S.EnvironmentalProtectionAgency(EPA)overchargesofthirdpartiessellingillegalpesticidesonitswebsite.
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Over Wynwood, the Miami neighborhood where Zika gained a foothold in the continental United States, low flying planes have been spraying naled, a tightly controlled pesticide often used as a last resort. It appears to be working, killing at least 90 percent of the target mosquitoes.
An Australian agricultural region's unusually high rate of Parkinson's disease could be linked to the use of farming pesticides, a study has found.
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