Pesticides And Toxins

Making Tastier Wines with Fewer Pesticides

Wine-making is steeped in age-old traditions, but to address the threat of pests and concerns over heavy pesticide use, vintners are turning to science.

Publication Date: 
31/07/2015
Environment News Network
Tags:
Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Use, Grapes, Agriculture
Pesticides And Toxins

UK suspends ban on pesticides linked to serious harm in bees

Farmers allowed to use two neonicotinoid pesticides on their crop for 120 days despite concerns over serious risk to bees and other pollinators

Publication Date: 
24/07/2015
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Pesticides And Toxins, Bees, United Kingdom (UK), European Union (EU), Toxins, Pesticide Use
Climate Change

Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

For many species, geographical ranges are expanding toward the poles in response to climate change, while remaining stable along range edges nearest the equator. Using long-term observations across Europe and North America over 110 years, we tested for climate change–related range shifts in bumblebee species across the full extents of their latitudinal and thermal limits and movements along elevation gradients.

Publication Date: 
10/07/2015
Jeremy T. Kerr, Alana Pindar, Paul Galpern & et al
Science
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6244
177-180
Tags:
Climate Change, Bees, Climate Impacts, Europe, N C America, Global Warming, Pesticide Use
Pesticides And Toxins

Honeybee deaths surging in Japan due to rice paddy pesticides

Mass deaths of honeybees are increasing in Japan, due apparently to pesticides used for killing stink bugs in rice paddies, according to a study by the agricultural ministry.

Publication Date: 
07/07/2015
Japan Times (Japan)
Tags:
Pesticides And Toxins, Honey Bees, Japan, Agriculture, Pesticide Use
Pesticides And Toxins

DDT exposure in utero and breast cancer

Currently no direct evidence links in utero dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) exposure to human breast cancer. However, in utero exposure to another xenoestrogen, diethylstilbestrol, predicts an increased breast cancer risk. If this finding extends to DDT, it could have far-reaching consequences. Many women were heavily exposed in utero during widespread DDT use in the 1960s. They are now reaching the age of heightened breast cancer risk. DDT exposure persists and use continues in Africa and Asia without clear knowledge of the consequences for the next generation.

Publication Date: 
16/06/2015
Barbara A. Cohn, Michele La Merrill, Nickilou Y. Krigbaum & et al
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Tags:
Cancer, DDT, Health Effects, Women, California, United States Of America (US), Africa, Asia, Pesticide Use
Pesticides And Toxins

White House makes bid to save honeybees but ignores toxic pesticides

The White House has announced an ambitious plan to “promote the health of honeybees and other pollinators” in the United States in a bid to help reverse a worrying trend that has seen the honeybee

Publication Date: 
20/05/2015
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Pesticides And Toxins, Environment, Honey Bees, United States Of America (US), Pesticide Use, Agriculture
Pesticides And Toxins

Protect children from pesticides

With the help of a new training guide developed by FAO and the International Labour Organization (ILO), extension workers in Africa and elsewhere are engaging with rural communities to reduce children's exposure to toxic pesticides used in farming.

Publication Date: 
13/05/2015
FAO
Tags:
Pesticides, Pesticide Use, Agriculture, Children, Child Health, Agricultural Labourers, Farmers
Pesticides And Toxins

Will Colombia stop fighting coca with Monsanto's glyphosate?

Picture a red jeep bumping up and down a longish, straight, red dirt road in rural Colombia and, coming from the opposite direction, one lone motorcyclist. The two vehicles draw near and stop.

Publication Date: 
13/05/2015
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Use, Herbicide, Health Effects, Monsanto, Cancer, Agriculture, WHO
Pesticides And Toxins

Pesticides and our health: a growing concern

A review of scientific literature shows clear evidence that exposure to certain pesticides, currently allowed in European fields, is associated with different forms of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and diseases of the newborn.

Publication Date: 
12/05/2015
Greenpeace Research Laboratories
Tags:
Pesticides, Pesticide Use, Health Effects, Agriculture, Pesticide Poisoning, Diseases, Cancer, Farmers, India, Global
Pesticides And Toxins

Colombia bans pesticide used against cocaine

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has told his government to stop using the controversial herbicide glyphosate — also known by its brand name Roundup.

Publication Date: 
11/05/2015
Shanghai Daily (China)
Tags:
Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Use, Colombia, WHO, Health Effects, Cancer

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