Pesticide
Pesticides are natural or human-made substances used to kill pest species such as rodents and insects. It is not surprising that many of these substances are highly toxic not only to the pes...
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Biopesticides
Plants, growing in the wild or in cultivation, face numerous threats from insects, bacteria, viruses, and fungi, as well as from other plants. Biopesticides are inert substances or livin...
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Pesticides
A pesticide is a chemical that is used to kill insects, weeds, and other organisms to protect humans, crops, and livestock. A broad-spectrum pesticide that kills all living organisms is cal...
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Pesticides
Pesticides are chemicals that are used to kill insects, weeds, and other organisms to protect humans, crops, and livestock. There have been many substantial benefits of the use of pesticide...
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Pesticide
The word "pesticide" is a broad term that refers to any device, method, or chemical that kills plants or animals that compete for humanity's food supply or are otherwise undesirable. Pestici...
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Pesticide
Pesticides are chemicals that are used to kill insects, weeds, and other organisms to protect humans, crops, and livestock. There have been many substantial benefits of the use of pesticid...
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Pesticides
Fumigators walking down a street in the Sultan Mosque area of Singapore and spraying a pesticide to rid the area of mosquitoes. (©Steve Raymer/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.)
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For years, farmers have tried to halt the devastation to their crops caused by insects, weeds, and other pests. Until the twentieth century, they relied on crude mixtures based on poisons such as lead...
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Because of the growing population, farmers are forced to produce more food in order to support the growing needs of the people. As a result farmers use pesticides, to control pest populations. Inste...
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Plants are essential for our life and survival. We beautify our homes with beautiful plants, but what if we were contributing to harming these plants? Water pollution is a major issue in the world we ...
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