Science news articles about 'herbicide atrazine'

... human cells, scientists from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) report. The herbicide atrazine is the second most widely used weedkiller in the U.S., applied to corn and sorghum fields ...

Grass filter strips placed in riparian zones not only curb soil erosion, but can help block and degrade the widely used herbicide atrazine, scientists report.

... around the world are expected to benefit from the successful trial of an enzyme that breaks down the herbicide, atrazine, in run-off water. 'When we added the enzyme to a holding dam filled with run- ...

... those collected from agricultural areas. Other efforts have pointed to specific chemicals, including the herbicide Atrazine, as causing abnormalities. The UF study is the first peer-reviewed study to ...

... Science and Technology, the system detected the presence of several common pollutants such as the widely-used herbicide atrazine - even at levels near or below those that the U.S. Environmental ...

... , others point to the ongoing loss of wetlands to development, and now new evidence shows that the herbicide atrazine--widely sprayed on crop fields throughout the region--is killing the frogs by ...

... other pesticides in surface water during the same months. While many of these chemicals, including the herbicide atrazine which is banned in European countries but permitted in the U.S., are suspected ...