Bats provide many ecosystem services, including biological control of insects that can damage crops and impact productivity.

A study provides evidence on the viability of organic farmland based on tomatoes cultivated through traditional plant breeding and regional variances.

(Beyond Pesticides, November 17, 2025) Beyond Pesticides ramped up its campaign to transition parks, playing fields, and schoolyards to organic land management after the release of a study showing synergistic effects of glyphosate (Roundup) and urea fertilizers on earthworms and soil health. The organization’s network is asking Mayors nationwide to lead the transition, pointing to the inadequacy of the current system of regulating pesticides based on risk assessments of individual chemicals or individual chemical families. Chemicals interact, causing increased impacts on human, ecological...

📣 In the absence of adequate regulation, tell your local officials that adopting organic land management is essential! #TakeAction

Pesticide exposure is linked to the incidence of thyroid cancer, a literature review finds, with increased risks for women.

A study finds negative birth outcomes with prenatal exposure to organophosphate and pyrethroid insecticides.

A ballot initiative to repeal a local ordinance in Maine that bans most uses of lawn chemicals was rejected by the voters last week by a 10-point margin.

Study finds significant associations between Gulf War-related toxic chemical exposure and adverse health outcomes, including heightened risk of ASCVDs.

(Beyond Pesticides, November 10, 2025) With a small but growing organic beer market, Beyond Pesticides is urging breweries to align with ecological farming practices and is seek out organic sources fo...

There is little dispute that modern industrial culture has produced a constellation of related chronic conditions contributing powerfully to human disease. In recent decades, attention has begun to fo...

A new report unpacks the supply chain of the infamous herbicide paraquat and underscores the true costs of pesticide products.

Environmental health advocates and farmers are raising a glass to the expansion of hop production to help boost the viability of organic-certified products.

Earthworm exposure to a mixture of the weed killer glyphosate and urea, used in synthetic fertilizers, experience enhanced, species-specific toxicity.

(Beyond Pesticides, November 3, 2025) After a series of legal setbacks for the nation’s cornerstone law of environmental protection, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Beyond Pesticides has joined a call for members of the U.S. Congress to oppose weakening amendments to the statute—H.R. 4776, the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act. Environmental advocates say the bill, introduced by U.S. Representatives Bruce Westerman (R-AR) and Jared Golden (D-ME) in July 2025, is a fossil fuel and agriculture industry wish list that will weaken NEPA...

📣 Tell your U.S. Representative to #voteNO on the SPEED Act and save the National Environmental Policy Act. #TakeAction #NEPA

A review in Lancet Neurology provides a clear snapshot of the state of scientific understanding of Parkinson’s disease and how medicine and policy could be improved by shifting focus to the primary causes of the disease, namely environmental toxicants, and to emphasize prevention rather than devoting resources only to treatments and a cure.

A biomonitoring study of preschoolers reveals that exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals is linked to hyperactive behavior.

The latest research on bats and beavers, ecosystem services, and biodiversity adds to a wide body of science on the importance of a balanced ecosystem. In both the Bulletin of the National Research Centre and Journal of Animal Ecology, the researchers highlight the interconnectedness not only between wildlife species but to broader ecosystem functioning and human health implications. Researchers in the Journal article add to the growing body of science connecting an abundance of bat species in areas with established beaver dams, highlighting how interconnected wildlife is. The reporting on...

A study finds that 7.5% of all pregnant people in California (2021) lived within 1 kilometer of agricultural fields with organophosphate pesticide use.

With the confluence of science and law, the spotlight is on sewage sludge fertilizer and its contaminants, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Sewage sludge (biosolids) is a byproduc...

📣 Tell your Governor and local officials to ban the use of biosolids on farms and parks, until there is adequate testing of toxic residues—which does not currently exist. #TakeAction

A literature review reports peer-reviewed studies associating prenatal and childhood pesticide exposure to measurable alterations to their immune systems.

Water contaminated with pesticides threatens aquatic ecosystem functioning and biodiversity, as highlighted by a study of seaweed.