In a new study of the continuing use in California of the pesticide methyl bromide, a known developmental, neurologic and ...

Methyl bromide has been widely used for weed control in polyethylene-mulched tomato production. With the phaseout of methyl bromide in the United States, an effective alternative is needed. Field ...

Scientists trying to help Florida growers find a replacement for methyl bromide are studying an alternative soil treatment that uses molasses as one of its ingredients. Farmers have been using methyl ...

WATSONVILLE — Santa Cruz County growers cut use of ozone-depleting methyl bromide by more than half and pesticides overall by 35 percent between 2009 and 2010. The decline came as the state saw a 9.5 ...

Methyl bromide allegedly was sprayed in the apartment below a Delaware family. — -- Members of a Delaware family of four remain seriously ill after possibly being exposed to a pesticide, methyl ...

Methyl bromide is a popular agricultural fumigant that can kill fungi, insects, weeds, nematodes, and bacteria. Unfortunately, it also depletes stratospheric ozone. Now researchers have devised a ...

Methyl bromide, a common pesticide and fumigant used to kill everything from worms to termites, is at the top of the agenda of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, ...

Strawberries were Monterey County's top crop in 2013, with a gross value of nearly $870 million. But the phase-out of a soil fumigant partly responsible for strawberries' climbing value could push ...

Dublin, July 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Methyl Bromide Global Market Insights 2025, Analysis and Forecast to 2030, by Manufacturers, Regions, Technology, Application" report has been added to ...

U.S. farmers and commodity importers can now switch from using methyl bromide, a toxic, ozone-depleting substance. MELBOURNE, Australia, September 10, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Treatment ...

As anthrax and other biological weapons continue to be worrisome threats, a University of Florida researcher has found a common pest control agent called methyl bromide is more effective and cheaper ...

The pesticide that sickened a Delaware family in the Virgin Islands is banned for indoor fumigation but U.S. growers will still legally use more than 375 metric tons of the chemical on fields this ...