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pesticide toxicity

Hot Weather Makes Pesticides More Dangerous for Amazon Frogs

December 15, 2025

Amazon frogs are in trouble. Pesticides and climate change are teaming up to make life harder for them. Scientists wanted to see how these two problems affect frog tadpoles. They looked at two types of frogs: Osteocephalus taurinus and Scinax ruber. They tested how these tadpoles handle a pesticide

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Pesticides Mix-Up: How Two Common Chemicals Harm Water Plants and Tiny Life Forms

November 22, 2025

Pesticides are often used together in farms, but what happens when they mix in water? Two chemicals, imidacloprid and glufosinate-ammonium, are often found together in water. Scientists wanted to see how these two chemicals affect plants and tiny life forms in water. They did a 24-day experiment wit