pesticides

Grasshopper Plague Is Latest Sign of Climate Crisis in U.S. West

Grasshopper Plague Is Latest Sign of Climate Crisis in U.S. West

The hot, dry weather baking the U.S. West is causing another problem for the beleaguered region: an overabundance of grasshoppers. The crop-devouring insects are native to the region, and normally their population is too small to cause alarm, The Guardian explained. But warmer, drier winters beginning in 2020 created the ideal conditions for more of […]

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    Video Reveals Water Contamination, ‘Brazen Disregard’ for Amazon by ‘Sustainable’ Palm Oil Industry

    Video Reveals Water Contamination, ‘Brazen Disregard’ for Amazon by ‘Sustainable’ Palm Oil Industry

    During 18 months, Mongabay investigated allegations challenging the “sustainable” status of the Brazilian palm oil supply chain, revealing impacts including deforestation and water contamination, and what appears to be an industry-wide pattern of brazen disregard for Amazon conservation and for the rights of Indigenous people and traditional communities in northern Pará state. In this behind-the-scenes […]

    5 Ways to Make Your Coffee Routine More Sustainable

    5 Ways to Make Your Coffee Routine More Sustainable

    Coffee has enormous cultural significance. It’s a staple of culture, cuisine, and everyday life for people all over the planet. Americans alone consume 400 million cups of coffee per day, and the crop is a highly traded commodity of huge importance to global economies. These millions of cups aren’t without consequence, however. The growing, processing, […]

    80 Groups Blast U.S. Interference in Mexico’s Phaseout of Glyphosate and GM Corn

    80 Groups Blast U.S. Interference in Mexico’s Phaseout of Glyphosate and GM Corn

    By Jessica Corbett A coalition of 80 U.S. agricultural, consumer, environmental, public health, and worker groups sent a letter Thursday to key figures in the Biden administration calling for them to “respect Mexico’s sovereignty and refrain from interfering with its right to enact health-protective policies” — specifically, the phaseout of the herbicide glyphosate and the […]

    Undisclosed Ingredients in Roundup Are Lethal to Bumblebees, Study Finds

    Undisclosed Ingredients in Roundup Are Lethal to Bumblebees, Study Finds

    By Jenna McGuire Commonly used herbicides across the U.S. contain highly toxic undisclosed “inert” ingredients that are lethal to bumblebees, according to a new study published Friday in the Journal of Applied Ecology. The study reviewed several herbicide products and found that most contained glyphosate, an ingredient best recognized from Roundup products and the most […]

    Study Links Pesticide Exposure to Childhood Central Nervous System Tumors

    Study Links Pesticide Exposure to Childhood Central Nervous System Tumors

    A new study adds to the evidence that pesticides harm children’s health. The study, published in Environmental Research last week, found that children were more likely to develop central nervous system (CNS) tumors if their mothers had lived within 2.5 miles of land where pesticides were being sprayed when they were born. “This study is […]

    Pesticide Toxicity to Bees Doubled in a Decade, Study Shows

    Pesticide Toxicity to Bees Doubled in a Decade, Study Shows

    By Andrea Germanos Despite lower applied amounts of pesticides in U.S. agriculture, their toxicity to non-target species including honeybees more than doubled in a decade, according to a new study. The findings by a team of researchers from Germany’s University Koblenz-Landau were published Friday in the journal Science. “We have taken a large body of […]

    64% of World’s Farmland at Risk From Pesticide Pollution, Study Finds

    64% of World’s Farmland at Risk From Pesticide Pollution, Study Finds

    About one third of the world’s agricultural land is at high risk from pesticide pollution, a new study has found. The research, published in Nature Geoscience Monday, looked at the use and spread of 92 active pesticide ingredients in 168 countries. They considered an area at risk if the concentration of a chemical exceeded the […]