Acting on advice of an expert committee, the Centre will ban use of 18 pesticides in India as it involves risk to humans and animals.

China shored up its regulations on chemical residues in food with a new national standard, the Ministry of Agriculture said Wednesday.

Among the 260 pesticides in use in India, 56 are carcinogenic and banned in other countries.

Dementia is a major global public health crisis that is expected to grow as people live longer.

Unpublished field trials by pesticide manufacturers show their products cause serious harm to honeybees at high levels, leading to calls from senior scientists for the companies to end the secrecy

Water quality of river Ganga shows the presence of bacterial contamination besides traces of pollutants like heavy metals and pesticides, says the apex pollution monitoring body CPCB.