A pesticide banned in more than 50 countries but still used widely in Australia has been implicated in the chronic deformities and deaths of thousands of fish in the Noosa River in recent months.

European Parliament members voted to ban some of the most toxic and dangerous pesticides to human health.

The reintroduction of a controversial pesticide to control malaria has drawn sharp reactions from many quarters but there could be more to the issue than meets the eye.

The US government is prepared to fund the spraying of DDT to control malaria.

WHO promotes indoor spraying with insecticides as one of three main interventions to fight malaria

On May 17, 2004, the first-ever legally binding international treaty to control toxic chemicals - the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) enters into force, providing an unprecedented legal framework to ban or severely restrict the production and use of the some of the worlds most toxic chemicals.

Land contaminated with toxic pesticide DDT could be cleaned up using small amounts of seaweed, according to research published in the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology.

Many U.S. residents carry toxic pesticides in their bodies above government assessed acceptable levels.

A prominent pesticide campaigner has told the Government that the cost to the economy and society as a whole from the use of pesticides could be running into billions.

Denmark has imposed widespread bans on the spraying of glyphosate in response to research showing that the sprays have been contaminating the countrys groundwater.

PCBs drenched Alabama town, but no one was ever told.

The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in the United States after today, ending nearly three decades of application.