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?
… Along with overuse of chemicals such as organophosphates, the manufacturing process …
Faced with an itchy young head full of nits, it's all too easy to reach for a bottle of potent chemicals. But is smothering your child's hair in pesticides really the best solution?
… counter you can buy products that contain the organophosphate insecticide malathion …
At what point are technologies so complex, uncertain, or unmanageable as to be beyond regulation? The question is key to human and ecological health, writes Jonatham Latham. But instead of learning from successful approaches, such as aviation safety, we are throwing the lessons away when faced with truly complex problems - like chemicals, GMOs, and now 'gene drives'.
… and continuing successively through organophosphates and neonicotinoids, a long …
Scientists have discovered that exposure to three widely used herbicides including Monsanto's Roundup and Kamba causes pathogenic bacteria to develop resistance to medically important antibiotics.
… carcinogenic'. Another four widely used organophosphate insecticides may also pose a …
Fresh, convenient, versatile or overpriced leaves soaked in pesticides and produced by slave labour?
… on the nervous system in a similar way to organophosphates; and one contained residues … contained pesticides not approved for use. An organophosphate banned in the UK was found in …
A new study finds that Indian farmers in rain-fed areas are being driven to suicide from the increased cost of growing Bt GMO cotton varieties that confer no benefits to them, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji. The extra expenses arise from buying new seeds each year, along with increased chemical inputs, while suffering inadequate access to agronomic information.
… bollworm, whitefly and others as a result of organophosphate and pyrethroids became more …