Weed scientists say farmers will lose a valuable herbicide, if EPA follows through on a proposal to prohibit the use of diuron on food and feed crops. EPA plans to end the chemical's uses on food and ...

The Australian Pesticides Authority has placed restrictions on the weed killer diuron from today. Diuron is no longer approved for use around apples, citrus, coffee and tea, and ornamental crops, and ...

The environmental agency is not endorsing a total ban on diuron, which has been used on farms, in orchards and in non-agricultural settings since the late 1960s. EPA has proposed to end the use of the ...

The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) suspended the use of some diuron products in 2011 pending a review of the chemical, used on weeds and algae in and around water ...

The herbicide diuron would be banned on all US food crops under a proposed decision announced April 28 by the Environmental Protection Agency. The proposal would also end use of the herbicide on ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef will suffer damage as a result of a decision to allow farmers in far north Queensland to resume using a pesticide, according to environmental groups. The World Wildlife ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. TONY EASTLEY: As UNESCO contemplates the Great Barrier Reef's world heritage status a report to be ...

New restrictions on the use of a weed killer harmful to the Great Barrier Reef won't protect the World Heritage listed asset, a conservation group says. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has attacked new ...

Australia's chemical regulator has ordered a suspension on the use of diuron this wet season in situations where the chemical could be washed onto the reef. But groups including WWF say it's already ...