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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In an exclusive extract from her new book - Naked Fashion - the People Tree founder looks at the environmental damage caused by modern fashion – and sketches out a radical new way forward
… chemical pesticides and 22 per cent of all insecticides used worldwide are sprayed on …
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 …