Title: Environmental impact of pesticides - Wikipedia
Headings: Environmental impact of pesticides
Environmental impact of pesticides
Contents
Agriculture and the environment
History
Specific pesticide effects
Pesticide environmental effects
Air
Water
United States regulations
United Kingdom regulations
European Union regulations
Soil
Effect on plants
Effect on animals
Birds
Aquatic life
Amphibians
Humans
Persistent organic pollutants
Pest resistance
Pest rebound and secondary pest outbreaks
Prevalence
Eliminating pesticides
See also
References
External links

Content: Over time, repeated application increases pest resistance, while its effects on other species can facilitate the pest's resurgence. Each pesticide or pesticide class comes with a specific set of environmental concerns. Such undesirable effects have led many pesticides to be banned, while regulations have limited and/or reduced the use of others. The global spread of pesticide use, including the use of older/obsolete pesticides that have been banned in some jurisdictions, has increased overall. Contents
1 Agriculture and the environment
2 History
3 Specific pesticide effects
4 Air
5 Water
5.1 United States regulations
5.2 United Kingdom regulations
5.3 European Union regulations
6 Soil
7 Effect on plants
8 Effect on animals
8.1 Birds
8.2 Aquatic life
8.3 Amphibians
8.4 Humans
9 Persistent organic pollutants
10 Pest resistance
11 Pest rebound and secondary pest outbreaks
12 Prevalence
13 Eliminating pesticides
14 See also
15 References
16 External links
Agriculture and the environment
Main article: Environmental impact of agriculture
The arrival of humans in an area, to live or to conduct agriculture, necessarily has environmental impacts. These range from simple crowding out of wild plants in favor of more desirable cultivars to larger scale impacts such as reducing biodiversity by reducing food availability of native species, which can propagate across food chains. The use of agricultural chemicals such as fertilizer and pesticides magnify those impacts. While advances in agrochemistry have reduced those impacts, for example by the replacement of long-lived chemicals with those that reliably degrade, even in the best case they remain substantial. These effects are magnified by the use of older chemistries and poor management practices.