EditorialGrenache grapes picked at sunrise at Yeruham Vineyard, in the Negev desert, Yeruham, Israel, on Aug. 17, 2022. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
EditorialConstruction equipment at the site of a new missile base looms over a farmer applying pesticide in a pineapple field on Ishigaki, a small Japanese island just 200 miles from Taiwan, on Nov. 3, 2021. (The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters call for a ban on chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide, at the California EPA’s headquarters in Sacramento, Nov. 8, 2018. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)
EditorialDavid Jacobsen, a Swiss farmer who has been pushing for a pesticide ban, at his 125-hectare farm, Gut Rheinau, near Zurich, Switzerland, in June 2021. (Noele Illien/The New York Times)
EditorialRetired teacher Paula Rogovin, who, along with a group of her kindergarten students at Public School 290, has been advocating for a ban on pesticide use at New York City playgrounds, parks and other public spaces, sits at Stanley Isaacs Playground in Manhattan, April 22, 2021. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)
EditorialFILE -- Protesters at the California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters after a public hearing on increasing restrictions on the use of the agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos, in Sacramento, Calif., on Nov. 8, 2018. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)
EditorialYanely Martinez, center, a city councilmember in Greenfield, Calif., with fellow protesters outside the California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters after a public hearing on increasing restrictions on the use of the agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos, in Sacramento, Calif., on Nov. 8, 2018. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)