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‘Growing body of evidence’ links pesticides to bee decline
Ecologist
5th August, 2010
Government and retailers, including B&Q and Wyevale, under pressure to impose a ban on sale of pesticides linked to bee population decline following new research more...
How to campaign for better food
Zofia Walczak & Matilda Lee
29th June, 2010
Concerned about the state of your food? Here are some ways to tackle the problem at root - from community gardens to animal welfare more...
CASE STUDY: Growing coffee more sustainably in Costa Rica
Theodora Tsentas
6th April, 2010
It's not organic but ‘pro-environmental sustainable' farming practices could help coffee farmers move away from damaging industrial monoculture more...
Farm pesticides linked to skin cancer
Ecologist
7th April, 2010
Large-scale study highlights agricultural chemicals as a possible risk factor behind rising rates of melanoma in the US more...
Crop scientists discover fungi alternative to pesticides
Ecologist
3rd March, 2010
Study identifies naturally occurring alternatives for controlling wireworm, a widespread potato pest in the UK more...
The enviromental cost of pesticides
Edward Goldsmith
March 1980
Thirty years ago this month, the Ecologist dedicated an edition to exposing the effects of pesticides on our health and the environment more...
Cancer and pesticides: victims fight for justice
Diana Smith
4th February, 2010
After long battles, three farmers in France have won legal claims that their cases of cancer and Parkinson's disease were caused by working with pesticides. Now they want to help others fight similar cases more...
Contractors using dangerous pesticides in UK schools
Ecologist
14th January, 2010
Survey finds that school children are being exposed to harmful pesticides, but schools claim safer alternatives would be 'uneconomic' more...
Georgina Downs takes pesticide case to European courts
Ecologist
9th January, 2010
UK court refuses to overturn appeal decision despite accusations it was ignoring evidence presented by the long-time pesticide campaigner more...
Loss of forage biggest long-term threat to bees
Ecologist
8th January, 2010
Intensification of farming and subsequent decline in food sources rather than pesticides or disease seen as biggest threat to honey bees more...
Food crisis 'hidden' from public say campaigners
Ecologist
6th January, 2010
Government is talking about issues like food security, climate change and oil dependency but failing to take the 'inconvenient' but necessary action says the Soil Association more...
Pierre Mineau: let's get rid of the pesticides that are killing birds
Laura Sevier
17th December, 2009
Canadian scientist Dr Pierre Mineau talks about the ongoing struggle to protect birds from pesticides that 'don't belong in this millennium' more...
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GM crops causing a rise in pesticide use in US
Ecologist
17th November, 2009
Early falls in pesticide use on GM crops in the United States have been replaced by rapid increases according to study more...
10 groups campaigning for a healthier environment
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
How can we be healthy on a sick planet? Especially when many still believe that health is unaffected by what is in the environment. These organisations could save your life more...
Help protect our honeybees
Laura Sevier
13th July, 2009
Neonicotinoid pesticides are killing our honeybees. Sign the Soil Association petition to help get it banned. Then take part in Twitter's 'Tweehive' - starting on 14th July more...
CASE STUDY: campaigning against pesticides
Jonathan Leake
1st April, 2006
Jonathan Leake meets Georgina Downs, the one-woman whirlwind who’s holding the pesticide industry and politicians to account more...
Behind the Label: better booze
Pat Thomas
16th November, 2009
If you don't know what's gone into making your drink, stick to organic beer and wine this Christmas, says Pat Thomasmore...
Good Natured Fruit 'pesticide-free' claims in doubt
Tom Levitt
21st September, 2009
Multi-million pound brand Good Natured Fruit is marketed in Asda and Sainsburys as 'pesticide free', but the company now admits it allows chemicals to be used during plants' life-cycle more...
Renewed call for pesticide ban to protect bees
Ecologist
14th September, 2009
Previous calls to ban neonicotinoids have been turned down by the UK government because of lack of evidence more...
Half India’s land degraded: agro-chemicals partly to blame
Ecologist
17th August, 2009
Deforestation, wind erosion and poor farming practices blamed for deterioration of soil as the real costs of the Green Revolution are measured more...
Forty-seven years since Silent Spring: what has changed?
David Ord
11th August, 2009
In 1962, Rachel Carson's famous exposé of the environmental impacts of the pesticide DDT rocked the chemical industry. Today, Carson's European legacy - the REACH legislation - ought to safeguard public health. But will it? more...
Organic food report admits to lack of evidence
Ecologist
29th July, 2009
FSA review dismisses health benefits of eating organic but admits to a lack of research on which to base findings more...
'Whitewash' at court of appeal for pesticides campaigner
Ecologist
9th July, 2009
Pesticides campaigner Georgina Downs has seen her high court victory against the Government overturned by a court of appeal, but vows to take her campaign to the House of Lords more...
Fire resistant: 'Why I went to jail to protect my daughter from toxic polluters'
Terri Swearingen
1st December, 2004
How far would you go to fight plans for a new waste incinerator? One woman went all the way... more...
Monty Waldin on biodynamic wine
Monty Waldin
1st March, 2009
Unsustainable and bad for the environment, industrial viticulture leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Pesticide-free and weed-friendly, biodynamic wine holds the key to an organic revolution.more...
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