The death of six children from a pesticide galvanised the South African government to declare a national disaster.

This movement can be beneficial if the pesticide is carried to a specific target area, like a plant's root zone, or if it helps to ensure that degradation occurs at the proper time and place.

The 2021 peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment shows that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms needed for healthy soil, ...