Poisoning our food supplies

Harmful sprays: A man controlling a drone to spray pesticides on a farm in Bozhou, central China's Anhui province. A study says wide use of pesticides are fouling habitats and harming pollinators. - AFP

Regulations on pest sprays have failed to prevent poisoning of almost all habitats, an international team of scientists concludes.

The world’s most widely used insecticides have contaminated the environment across the planet so pervasively that global food production is at risk, according to a comprehensive scientific assessment of the impacts of the chemicals.