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‘Reduced Risk’ Pesticides Are Widespread in California Streams

Insect and weed killers designed to replace compounds that cause neurodevelopmental problems in animals and people pose their own set of risks.

By Liza Gross

A worker on a farm wears a Tyvek chemical protective suit as he sprays a field with a herbicide after the broccoli harvest. Credit: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis via Getty Images
Tyrone Hayes, an endocrinologist at the University of California, Berkeley, speaks at King University. In 2002, Hayes reported that atrazine, manufactured by Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta, turned male frogs into hermaphrodites. Credit: Earl Neikirk

Fighting Attacks on Inconvenient Science—and Scientists

By Liza Gross

A helicopter sprays insecticide on a field outside of El Centro, California in the Imperial Valley on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/Corbis via Getty Images

In California’s Farm Country, Climate Change Is Likely to Trigger More Pesticide Use, Fouling Waterways

By Liza Gross

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