"Are Agriculture's Most Popular Insecticides Killing Our Bees?"
"Environmentalists and beekeepers are calling on the government to ban some of the country's most widely used insect-killing chemicals."
Source: NPR, 03/26/2013
Search results
"Bay’s Intersex Fish Mystery Remains Unsolved"
"Ten years have gone by since one of the weirdest discoveries in the Chesapeake Bay region, on the south branch of the Potomac River — male smallmouth bass with lady parts, eggs in places where they absolutely should not be."
Source: Wash Post, 03/18/2013
"Hoping to Save Bees, Europe to Vote on Pesticide Ban"
"PARIS -- Will Brussels try to give bees a break? In a case closely watched on both sides of the Atlantic, European officials plan to vote Friday on a proposal to sharply restrict the use of pesticides that had been implicated in the decline of global bee populations."
Source: NY Times, 03/15/2013
"Dow AgroSciences Wins Bid to Overturn Pesticide Proposals"
"Dow Agrosciences LLC and two other pesticide makers won a bid to overturn U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service proposals to protect salmon when an appeals court found the agency’s decision 'arbitrary and capricious.'"
Source: Bloomberg, 02/22/2013
"Fungicide Use Surging, Largely Unmonitored"
A surge in the use of fungicides is bringing higher crop yields; but experts warn that there is not enough monitoring of the emerging fungicide contamination of streams -- and that not enough is known about the health consequences.
Source: EHN, 02/22/2013
Scientists Investigate Possible Link Between Autism and Vitamin D
"Vitamin D plays a pivotal role in a number of disorders. Now scientists are investigating whether the 'sunshine vitamin' could be implicated in autism. With autism rates climbing and levels of vitamin D declining because of more sunscreen use and less time spent outdoors, scientists have begun to look into a possible link."
Source: EHN, 01/31/2013
British Gardening Chains Drop Pesticides Blamed for Killing Bees
"Pesticides blamed for killing bees have been removed from the shelves of Britain's biggest gardening chains, prompting calls for similar chemicals widely-used on farms to be banned completely."
Source: Telegraph, 01/30/2013
"Common Pesticides 'Can Kill Frogs Within An Hour'"
"New research suggests the chemicals are playing a significant and previously unknown role in the global decline of amphibians."
Source: Guardian, 01/25/2013
Report Finds Chesapeake Bay Contaminants Widespread, Severe in Spots
"A new federal report finds toxic contamination remains widespread in the Chesapeake Bay, with severe impacts in some places, which health and environmental advocates say lends support to their push in Annapolis for legislative action on pesticides and other hazardous chemicals."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 01/22/2013
"Insecticide 'Unacceptable' Danger To Bees, Report Finds"
"The world's most widely used insecticide has for the first time been officially labelled an 'unacceptable' danger to bees feeding on flowering crops. Environmental campaigners say the conclusion, by Europe's leading food safety authority, sounds the 'death knell' for the insect nerve agent."
Source: Guardian, 01/17/2013
