Tag: pesticides
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New Report Reveals Two-Thirds of European Honeybee Pollen Contaminated By Dozens of Pesticides
More than two-thirds of the pollen that honeybees collect from European fields is contaminated by a cocktail of up to 17 different toxic pesticides. These are the shocking findings of a new study released yesterday. [caption id="attachment_331034" align="alignnone" width="540"] Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner in front of Bayer’s headquarters yesterday in correlation with the release…
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Groups Sue EPA for Failing to Protect Endangered Species From Dangerous New Pesticide
Conservation and food-safety groups filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today for failing to protect hundreds of endangered fish, butterflies and other species from a new, toxic pesticide called cyantraniliprole. The EPA violated the Endangered Species Act by approving the widespread agricultural and residential use of the new pesticide…
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Organic Farmer Taken to Court for Refusing to Spray Pesticides
The French agriculture ministry is prosecuting Emmanuel Giboulot, an organic winemaker, for failing to apply insecticide to his vines. The ministry wants insecticide to be sprayed to control the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus—believed to be responsible for the spread of the grapevine disease—but Giboulot believes the pesticide is ineffective and damaging to pollinating insects such as bees,…
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3 New Studies Show Benefits of Eliminating Pesticides on Cotton Fields
Field schools that train farmers in alternative methods of pest control have succeeded in nearly eliminating the use of toxic pesticides by a community of cotton growers in Mali, according to a new Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations (FAO) study published yesterday by the London-based Royal Society. The study was conducted in two…
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Bee Week of Action: 27,000+ Demand Stores Stop Selling Harmful Pesticides
This week, more than 27,000 people coast-to-coast are swarming Lowe’s and Home Depot stores to support the bees that pollinate our flowers for Valentine’s Day. In a coalition campaign called the Bee Week of Action, Beyond Pesticides, Friends of the Earth and allies are delivering more than half a million petition signatures and Valentines asking…