A new study suggests an alarming link between low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides - the most widely used insecticides in the world - and long-term brain damage. Tom Levitt reports
… pesticides - the most widely used insecticides in the world - and long-term … pesticides are the most widely used insecticides in the world. While high-level …
Urban beekeeping will help boost the UK's declining bee population. Here are six reasons to get involved
… ‘farmed', and the use of pesticides and insecticides used in modern-day agricultural … to encounter large amounts of pesticides and insecticides which are commonly used to treat …
The first study conducted in a natural environment has shown that systemic pesticides damage bees' ability to navigate
… Germany, Italy and France have suspended key insecticides over such fears. A spokesperson … cent smaller than those not exposed to the insecticide. Most strikingly, the exposed …
Endosulfan is the pesticide of choice for farmers in rural India trying to control insects threatening cashew nut and other crops - but the chemical can have devastating health impacts
… victim. Endosulfan, an organochlorine insecticide, acts as a contact poison for a …
The pro-GM lobby has sought to take the 'scientific high-ground' by positioning itself as the voice of reason and progress, while painting its opponents as unsophisticated 'anti-science' luddites. In a scathing response Peter Melchett turns the tables
… have encouraged herbicide-resistant weeds and insecticide-resistant pests. This has led to … to wild relatives of the crop, and the insecticide in GM Bt crops can destroy …
It might have taken 11 years but Nudie – purveyors of green jeans for the super stylish – has finally taken the plunge and gone entirely organic. Are you paying attention, H&M?
… global farmland but using 25 per cent of its insecticides. Along with overuse of chemicals …
Grow It Yourself is a popular community organisation with a vision of bringing people together in a sustainable and healthier way through organic food growing. Now it has plans to launch further afield in the UK
… there is no need for the use of pesticides, insecticides or fertilisers, meaning that the …
Government orders to use dangerous organophosphate chemicals left hundreds of sheep farmers with debilitating ill health, Tom Levitt reports on the UK's forgotten pesticide tragedy
… War, OPs were then being championed as an insecticide for killing bugs and pests that …
40 years ago, Cleeland Bean wrote about the value of the earthworm, their integral link in the balance of nature and the dangers faced by chemical farming
… noted the dangers of chemical fertiliser and insecticides. Chemicals threaten the earthworm …
The acclaimed buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh talks to the Ecologist about the loss of biodiversity and why human vulnerability is not something we should despair about
… countryside has to use a lot of antibiotics, insecticide in order to provide the city with …
China's least talked about crime against Tibet is the damage to the Tibetan plateau: dams, deforestation, mining, poaching and the dumping of nuclear waste. And it is impacting on all of us
… farmers to use chemical fertilisers and insecticides. Many of these are harmful to …
In the second part of our adaptation of Fatal Harvest’s iconoclastic analysis of agribusiness propaganda, The Ecologist reveals the real cost of industrial food.
… compounds like PCBs and organophosphate insecticides during critical periods of …
Since defeating the government in 1984 over its compulsory warble fly erradication scheme, Mark Purdey has been travelling the world to find the real cause of BSE and vCJD. His conclusions are controversial, fascinating, and if proved right, will cost the government millions in compensation.
… chemicals (ie, the warble fly and headlice insecticides), and electromagnetic radiations …