Posts tagged: #Neonicotinoids

In The News: Radon In My Apartment? The Spectra Pipeline, Pesticide Residue in Fruits and Vegetables Associated with Low Sperm Count, A Top Weedkiller Could Cause Cancer: Should We Be Scared? EPA Restricts Use of Pesticides Suspected of Killing Bees, There is No Such Thing as Cheap Food

Radon In My Apartment? The Spectra Pipeline Learn in two minutes about how Spectra and ConEd plan to bring fracked gas, laced with radon, into New York via a new explosive, high pressure pipeline. This is bad for the environment … Read More

In the News: Study Proves Organic Food Is Better for You, UN Recognition for Slow Food Founder, Bird Population Declines Linked to Neonicotinoid Pesticides

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Study Proves Organic Food Is Better for You The largest study of its kind has found significant benefits to organic food. An international team led by?Newcastle University?has shown that organic crops are up to 69% higher in a number of … Read More

In the News: Bee-Killing Pesticides Damage Children?s Brain and Nervous System,Social Media as a Megaphone to Pressure the Food Industry, The Truth About Fair Trade Coffee

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Bee-Killing Pesticides Damage Children?s Brain and Nervous System, Says European Authority The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) announced on Tuesday that pesticides linked to honey bee deaths worldwide may also damage human nervous systems ?in particular the brain, and recommended … Read More

In the News: New Study Links Neonicotinoids to Bee Virus, “Dirty Dozen” List of Hormone Disrupting Chemicals, How Food Literate Are You? Take the Quiz to Find Out

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New Study Links Neonicotinoids to Bee Virus A team of scientists in Italy believe they have found the molecular mechanism through which neonicotinoid pesticides impacts the immune system of honey bees. The team?s experiments suggest that exposure to neonicotinoids results … Read More