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 …