Scientists discover what’s killing bees and it’s worse than you thought
By Todd Woody @greenwombat Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past...
View ArticleThanks for the pesticides, America!
While the U.S. banned a hazardous chemical from domestic use, corporations are exporting it — to deadly effect BY EVAN MASCAGNI After eating a school lunch that was made with cooking oil tainted with...
View ArticleYour Garden may be a Pesticide-Tainted Death-Trap for Bees
By Todd Woody As bee populations plummet in the US and Europe, people have been urged to plant bee-friendly gardens to create safe havens for the endangered little pollinators. But a first-of-its-kind...
View ArticleNew labels for Pesticides linked to Bee Deaths
by Cath McAloon The United States Environmental Protection Agency is introducing new labelling requirements for pesticides suspected of contributing to the global decline in bee populations. It follows...
View ArticlePesticides Travel 100 Miles to Poison Mountain Frogs
Beth Buczynski Humans do not operate in a vacuum. Everything in this world is connected. Every action we take has a consequence, even though it might not be obvious, or occur in the same place. Nothing...
View Article‘Newly Emerging’ Chemicals And Pharmaceutical Drugs Found In Great Lakes May...
By Matthew Mientka, Despite promising wonders, North America’s water treatment plants remove only half the amount of prescription drugs and other newly emerging contaminants found in sewage. In a new...
View ArticleEnvironmental advocates target possible flaws in EPA pesticide system
by Kendall Helblig, The honeybees that pollinate one-third of Americans’ daily diet are dying, and in the eyes of some environmentalists one culprit may be a decades-old Environmental Protection Agency...
View ArticleUCLA Researchers ID More Pesticides Linked to Parkinson’s
via goldrushcam.com, Studies have shown that certain pesticides can increase people’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. Now, UCLA researchers have found that the strength of that risk depends on...
View ArticleOrganic farmers dig in against 2,4-D herbicide
by MIKE TIGHE mtighe@lacrossetribune.com, One of the biggest challenges facing organic farmers is thwarting the use of the herbicide 2,4-D in conventional agriculture, according to a policy expert for...
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?...
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