Bee foraging skills impaired by neonicotinoid pesticides
RFID tags used to keep tabs on individual bees By Emily Chung, CBC News, Popular pesticides linked to declines in bee populations appear to harm bumblebees by impairing their ability to learn how to...
View ArticleSecond Silent Spring? Bird Declines Linked to Popular Pesticides
Neonicotinoids are aimed at insects, but they’re affecting other animals too, study says. by Jason Bittel for National Geographic, Pesticides don’t just kill pests. New research out of the Netherlands...
View ArticleLoaf-threatening: More than half of British breads contain ‘toxic’ pesticides
via RT.com Over 60 percent of breads in the UK contain pesticide residues, according to recently conducted analysis of government data. A further 25 percent contain traces of multiple toxins, the...
View ArticleYour Great Grandmother’s Exposure to Pesticides Could Be Making You Obese
The effects of pesticides can span three generations, according to the latest research by Abby Abrams @abby_abrams Your health, or unhealthy state, may be traced back to the stuff your grandparents...
View ArticlePesticides Blamed for Soaring Cancer Rates in India
By Tom Porter, Pesticides used on crops in India are causing spiralling cancer rates, according to health workers. A doctor at the Acharya Tulsi Regional Cancer Treatment and Research Center in Bikaner...
View ArticleHow safe is your morning tea? Greenpeace reports pesticides in packaged tea
by Meryl Sebastian, Greenpeace India today released its report Trouble Brewing on the level of pesticides in the tea sold by the leading national and international brands in India. The report says that...
View ArticleToxic tea: Are pesticides flavoring the tea you love?
by Lynda Edwards, The New Moon Gallery and Tea Room is packed with treasures, from what the owner calls the “Stradivarius of wind chimes” to baskets of moonstone opals and glacier blue calcite to the...
View ArticleHigh Rates of Suicide, Depression Linked to Farmer Use of Pesticides
There is growing evidence that long-term pesticide use is linked to to alterations in farmers’ mental health By Brian Bienkowski and Environmental Health News On his farm in Iowa, Matt Peters worked...
View ArticleCancer concerns raised over pesticides found in air
By Cesar Lara, After much delay, a new round of air sampling data released by state officials last month shows that hazardous pesticides continue to be found in the air of the state’s agricultural...
View ArticleThe U.S Approves a Powerful New Pesticide Deadly to Monarch Butterflies
The dominance of genetically modified crops requires ever-more-toxic pesticides that are wiping out the iconic insect’s sole source of food. By Todd Woody, Is the monarch butterfly the new polar bear?...
View ArticlePesticides threaten shellfish industry
By Eddie Cassidy, The failure of Government departments to regulate fish farm-used pesticides is continuing to threaten shellfish and inshore fishing industries, along with marine wildlife, in West...
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