Climate change and contaminated water have combined to create an epidemic of kidney disease.
Tag: Pesticides
Butterflies Are in Decline. New Research Points to Insecticides.
Agricultural insecticides were a key factor, according to a study focused on the Midwest, though researchers emphasized the importance of climate change and habitat loss.
What Are Eco-Friendly Ways to Control Backyard Bugs?
Meet the “bucket of doom” and other methods to manage mosquitoes and ticks.
Angry Farmers Are Reshaping Europe
Farm protests are changing not only Europe’s food system but also its politics, as the far right senses an opportunity.
Locust Swarms Could Expand Their Range in a Hotter, Stormier World
The crop-devouring pests love arid conditions and the occasional downpour. Global warming is offering more of both.
A Tokyo Taxi Driver Is Charged With Running Down a Pigeon
The arrest of the 50-year-old driver highlighted the strict law in Japan against harming the birds, even if they take over balconies or get in the way of traffic.
Climate Change Drives New Cases of Malaria, Complicating Efforts to Fight the Disease
The number of malaria cases rose again in 2022, propelled by flooding and warmer weather in areas once free of the illness.
As Bedbug Anxiety Spreads to Asia Exterminators Turn Profits
Outbreaks in France and South Korea have people across Asia on high alert for bedbugs. Exterminators in the region say business is booming.
Why Vultures Might Just Be the Smartest Birds Above the Block
The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind.
In Paris, Bedbugs and Fear of Bedbugs
Exterminators in France are playing the role of therapist to an anxious post-pandemic population that they say is panicking over recent bedbug outbreaks.