Biodiversity

 Persistent poison

Review highlights need to ban organochlorines worldwide

Publication Date: 
29/11/2004
Tanvi Mishra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pesticides, Health Effects, Health, Research, Developing Countries
India

 J S Banth , <i>proprietor</i>

M/s Banth Kheti Sewa Kender and Fertiliser store Dealers in insecticide, Pesticide sprayers, seeds and fertilisers: village Dher, district Ropar, Punjab

Publication Date: 
14/11/2004
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Agriculture, Pesticides, Pest Control, India, Punjab
Animal Care

 Wild disruption

Even low concentrations of pollutants can alter animal behaviour

Publication Date: 
29/09/2004
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Pesticides, Animal Care, Animal Breeding, Endosulfan, Research
Mining

 In Short

unique protest: In a potent symbolic gesture equating a dangerous pesticide with the atom bomb, a Quit India Endosulfan march was organised in Kerala on August 6

Publication Date: 
14/09/2004
Down to Earth
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Pesticides, Mining, Renewable Energy, Endosulfan, World Bank, Kerala
Agriculture

 Stronger curbs

On pesticide in France

Publication Date: 
29/06/2004
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Pesticides, Legislation, France
Environment

 A handmaiden of the West

The Stockholm Convention is against the interests of the developing world

Publication Date: 
29/04/2004
S Ganesan
Down to Earth
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Environment, Pesticides, Developing Countries, POPs
Industry

 Experiments with established truth

Last fortnight, Down To Earth reported on the 'endosulfan scam'. On how an "expert" group, set up by the government to review safety concerns related to the pesticide and the health impacts on people living in the shadow of 20 years of incessant aerial spraying, had given the matter short shrift.

Publication Date: 
29/04/2004
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Pesticides, Health Effects, Occupational Health, Pesticides And Toxins, Endosulfan, Pesticide Residues, Governance
Agriculture

 Pest attack

The armyworm has devastated crops in several provinces of Pakistan. Sindh is plagued by the pest, which has damaged 25 per cent of the rice crop and a substantial part of the banana crop. Even as

Publication Date: 
28/02/2004
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Pesticides, Pest Control, Rice, Wheat, Pakistan
Agriculture

 Modified and making trouble

Since its inception, the agro biotech industry has had a unique selling proposition transgenic crops need lesser herbicides/pesticides than conventional varieties, therefore their use can help control environmental pollution. But a new report indicates

Publication Date: 
30/01/2004
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Chemical Fertilisers, Pesticides, Weeds, Life Science, Madhya Pradesh, Statistics
Pesticides And Toxins

Pesticide residues in food and drinking water: human exposure and risks

This book describes the issues surrounding pesticide residues in food and drinking water and, in particular, the issues associated with human exposure and consumer risk assessment.

Publication Date: 
Jan 2004
Denis Hamilton, Stephen Crossley
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Tags:
Pesticides, Livestock, Food Contamination, Drinking Water, Health Effects, Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Residues, Crops, Toxins

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