Insects trapped in amber show that lice munched on feathered dinosaurs
Feathered dinosaurs were annoyed by tiny pests that are still familiar to many schoolchildren -- and their horrified parents -- today: lice.
pests and pest control
Monsanto pleads guilty to illegally spraying banned pesticide in Maui
Agrochemicals company Monsanto, a unit of Bayer AG, has agreed to pay $10.2 million in fines and plead guilty to spraying a banned pesticide on research crops in Maui, Hawaii, the US Department of Justice said.
Two people just got the plague in China
Two people in China are being treated for plague, authorities said Tuesday. It's the second time the disease, the same one that caused the Black Death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, has been detected in the region -- in May, a Mongolian couple died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of a
Cigarette cockroach is giving pizza rat a run for its money in NYC
First there was pizza rat.
Lower income neighborhoods have bigger mosquitoes
As if life wasn't already challenging enough for residents in low-income urban neighborhoods, new research suggests such communities are more at risk from particularly harmful, aggressive mosquitoes.
Why did EEE cases spike this year? It's complicated
What exactly is fueling an unprecedented outbreak of the mosquito-borne Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, in the United States remains a concerning conundrum -- and there could be several factors at play.
At least 11 people have died from a rare mosquito-borne illness
A fourth person in Michigan has died of the rare Eastern Equine Encephalitis mosquito virus, raising the death toll to eleven nationwide.
10th person dies from rare EEE infection
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has reduced the number of deaths in the state from Eastern equine encephalitis from four to three, bringing the nationwide total to nine deaths.
Birds are dying off at an alarming rate. Here's how you can help
The United States and Canada have lost almost a third of their bird population since 1970, an alarming study recently found.
How to protect yourself, pets from deadly EEE virus
A 10th person has died from Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a rare mosquito-borne illness.
Rare mosquito-borne illness has killed at least 8 in US
A third person has died of Eastern equine encephalitis in Massachusetts, raising the reported death toll from the rare mosquito-borne illness to eight nationwide.
Beekeeper groups sue EPA over pesticide decision
In the latest confrontation between the bee industry and the Trump administration, a group of concerned beekeepers have sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its July decision to expand the use of a pesticide that's known to harm bees and other pollinators.
3rd person dies of rare mosquito-borne illness EEE in US
At least three people have died in the United States after contracting the fatal mosquito-borne illness Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) this year.
1 person dies every 40 seconds from suicide, WHO says
The number of people worldwide who die from suicide is declining but one person still kills themselves every 40 seconds, according to new figures from the World Health Organization, which said countries needed to do more to stop these preventable deaths.
Potentially deadly mosquitoes found in New Jersey
If you needed a reason to stay inside for the rest of summer, here it is: killer mosquitoes.
Risk level 'critical' for mosquito-borne virus in Massachusetts
Twenty-eight communities in Massachusetts are at
Camping canceled at Phish's Colorado concerts due to plague
The good news: A weekend of Phish concerts will go on as scheduled at a soccer stadium outside Denver.
Facebook: Chinese operation tries to undermine Hong Kong protesters
Twitter will no longer accept advertisements from state-controlled media outlets, the company announced Monday, hours after it joined with Facebook to take down a covert Chinese social media campaign that sought to undermine pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
West Nile virus cases rose in the US in 2018, killing 167 people
The number of West Nile virus cases rose across the United States last year, killing 167 people, according to data released Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Experts say the increase, while small, underscores the need to protect against mosquitoes during the hot summer months.
Rare tick-borne virus kills resident of New York
A rare virus spread by ticks has caused a fatality in New York, health officials in Ulster County said Thursday.
NASA fed some Apollo 11 lunar samples to cockroaches and mice
Scientists from NASA had a lot more leeway to conduct weird experiments 50 years ago, which included feeding moon dust to German cockroaches.
EPA refuses to ban pesticide tied to children's health problems
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided against a ban of the widely-used pesticide chlorpyrifos, which critics say is associated with neurological problems in children.
Mosquitoes near gone on 2 China islands
A population of the world's most invasive mosquito species was almost completely wiped out by an experiment on two islands in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, according to a study published Wednesday.
Philippines declares national alert after 456 die from dengue fever
Health authorities in the Philippines have declared a "national dengue alert" after a spike in cases of the viral disease which has left more than 450 people dead since January.
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