Two insecticide types - in addition to neonicotinoids - continue to pose a threat to aquatic life in Japan.
… Broad-spectrum insecticides in Japan Phil Carter | 26th May … Fipronil Neonicotinoids Pollution Pesticides Insecticides Editor’s Picks rice_terrace_in_japan.jpg Two insecticide types - in addition to …
More than a 100 pesticides are licenced for spraying on the humble lettuce. As well as posing a threat to consumers, workers harvesting the crop can face contamination and poisoning
… human exposure. Under this approach, the insecticides are taken up into the structure … risks Other fungicides, herbicides and insecticides are applied throughout the growth … fungicides • 45 are herbicides • 57 are insecticides Amongst them are some …
A BBC documentary claimed 90% success for a controversial GM crop in Bangladesh, Bt brinjal, writes Claire Robinson. But as journalist Faisal Rahman discovered, there's no evidence to support the claim, the BBC relied on biased sources, and its journalists failed to investigate reports of widespread crop failure. Was it all an exercise in pro-GMO propaganda?
… of the crop, which was claimed to reduce insecticide sprays and help farmers avoid the … Bt brinjal and saying he didn't have to spray insecticides to kill the fruit and shoot borer … had been able to sell the crop labelled "insecticide free" . Lynas concluded, "Now, …
A Complaint has been filed today with the European Commission to prevent import of the 'super-GM' SmartStax maize developed by Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences.
Stop import of 'super-GM' SmartStax maize! Oliver Tickell | 9th January 2014 News GMO Gm Food EU Food Farming Health poison-pollen.png A Complaint has been filed today with the European Commission to …
Scotland's decision to maintain its GM-free status is in the best interests of the country, its people and its farmers, 30 scientists write to Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead. It is abundantly justified by the scientific evidence and will support the sustainable, agroecological farming systems of the future.
… actually have decreased amounts of applied insecticide (the Bt crops) are engineered to produce their own insecticide within their cells - and these … off but must be eaten. The total amount of insecticide occurring in and on Bt crops is …
Bee 'colony collapse disorder' cannot be ended by easy technofixes, writes Allan Stromfeldt Christensen. The real problem is the systematic abuse of bees in vast industrial monocultures, as they are trucked or flown thousands of miles from one farm to the next, treated with insecticides and antibiotics, and fed on 'junk food'.
… miles from one farm to the next, treated with insecticides and antibiotics, and fed on 'junk … then must honeybees cope and live amongst the insecticides necessary for monoculture 'farms' … but because of their poor health, strips of insecticides are also commonly placed inside …
Hormone-disrupting pollutants in the urban rivers of South Wales are having adverse effects on the health and development of wild birds such as dippers, writes Steve Ormerod. Could this humble bird be the 'new canary' for environmental toxins?
… numbers. They also respond to acid rain, insecticide residues ... Where there was a … thinner shells . And, in rivers polluted by insecticide residues or PCBs from local …
An ordinary arable field in Sussex is sprayed with pesticides 22 times over a single growing season. Dave Goulson wonders how the bees can survive this toxic onslaught - and exactly who benefits.
… summer with a seed dressing containing the insecticide thiamethoxam . This is a systemic … dressing the crop is sprayed with another insecticide, the endearingly named Gandalf . …
Farmers' first line of defence against pests is the ecosystem in and around their fields, write Jonathan Lundgren & Scott Fausti. With widespread or indiscriminate use of pesticides essential biodiversity is lost - and the result is more frequent and serious infestations, and a decline in food security.
… major pests co-occur. And we made sure that insecticides or GM crops that might influence … with high diversity will require fewer insecticide inputs and will save farmers …
With Brexit the UK will have to chose between two visions of our farming future, writes Keith Tyrell. Will it be heavily subsidised corporate agribusiness that ravages both nature and small, high quality farmers. Or will we seize the chance to build a sustainable food and farming system that supports wildlife, landscape, family farms, organic production and diverse rural economies?
… can cause lethal poisonings. Broad spectrum insecticides, for example, can destroy … can also affect food availability - insecticides reduce populations for …
As scientific evidence grows of the many ways in which glyphosate - pipe-cleaner, herbicide and antibiotic - damages the environment and health, governments and regulators turn a blind eye, writes Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji, and the EU has even raised allowable residue levels. It's time for us all to put bans in place wherever we can!
… also found that phenoxy herbicides, carbamate insecticides, organophosphorus insecticides and the active ingredient lindane, an organochlorine insecticide, were positively associated with …
The US looks set to approve GM crops that resist the 'Agent Orange' pesticide 2,4-D as well as glyphosate, writes Helena Paul. If it does, the toxic chemical - created in WW2 to destroy enemy food supplies - will soon end up in animal feeds, and the food we eat.
… and pesticides (both herbicides and insecticides) emerged from the World Wars of …
To feed the world we must abandon not just GMOs but all diversity-destroying selective crop breeding, organic farmer John Letts told Oliver Tickell. Only by using biodiverse local seed mixtures that evolve in the field can food production adapt to climate change without ever-increasing chemical inputs, and meet human needs for wholesome nourishment.
… with tons of soluble nitrogen, fungicide, insecticide and herbicide. And the result is …
Forty years ago this month – John Noble and Harry Rothman wrote in the Ecologist about the mystery of 8,000 bird deaths and the toxic effects of PCBs found in the environment
… and varnish. PCBs, like other organo-chlorine insecticides such as DDT, are known to cause …
In the red corner, the increasingly successful citizens' campaign to label foods containing GMO ingredients. In the blue, a supine government and powerful GMO and grocery industry that will fight it all the way. Welcome to 2014 ...
… pesticide-drenched (Roundup-resistant) or insecticide-impregnated (Bt-spliced) crops and …
WHO's official recognition of the health damage caused by glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide, is having ramifications around the world, writes Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji. National governments are moving to restrict the chemical, campaigns to ban it are intensifying, and now 'Roundup Ready' GMO crops are coming under the regulatory spotlight.
… concentrations in combinations of both insecticides and herbicides, and being sold as … ban of glyphosate herbicides and for insecticides also judged by the WHO to be …
Soils are naturally alive with complex 'food webs' of micro-organisms that sustain plants with moisture and nutrients, making them good to eat. But once the biota have been blitzed with agro-chemicals under industrial farming regimes, it's our health that suffers. One more reason to grow, and eat, organic!
… its monocrops, fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides. The term 'biodiversity' evokes …
Recent reports of catastrophic declines in bee populations have had scientists buzzing around looking for a plausible explanation. Is it mites? Is it GM crops? Is it mobile phones or habitat loss? It's all of these things, says Pat Thomas, but it's also so much more than that.
… colonies we treat the infestation with insecticides such as coumaphos, a dangerous … slower foragers even at low doses. The insecticide imidacloprid can cause bees to …
As industrial agriculture continues to erode our wildlife, Dave Goulson challenges the methods and objectives of ever-increasing food production. We need to move towards sustainable, evidence-based farming systems that produce healthy food, rather than allowing the agrochemical industry to reshape our farming, countryside and nutrition to its quest for profit.
… spraying them with a cocktail of 20 different insecticides, fungicides, herbicides and … can greatly increase the toxicity of insecticides when an insect is simultaneously …