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Car Crashes . . . Criminals . . . Cancer . . . Black Swans? AAAAAIIIEEEH!
by Hugh Kretschmer Hugh Kretschmer On December 27, 2004, while the world was focused on the Indian Ocean tsunami, a few astronomers were contemplating the possibility of an even deadlier disaster:...
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Make Your Garden Greener
Pet-Safe Garden the Editors of E - The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What green-friendly lawn and garden pesticides are available today? I'm particularly interested in options that won't harm...
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The Amphibial Canary is Dead
Leopard Frog and Pesticides iStockPhoto While canaries are yet to raise the red flag on pesticide exposure, new research from the University of Pittsburgh shows that "ten of the world's most popular...
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Something Is Killing Up To Half Of America's Bees
Bee Hive Andrew McMillan/Wikimedia Commons There's some kind of environmental issue/plague/apocalypse killing America's honeybees, but years after it first started happening, scientists are still...
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Spain Considers Release Of Genetically Modified Olive Fruit Flies
Olive Fruit Fly Joaquim Alves Gaspar on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0A company involved in creating genetically modified mosquitos has another project nearing outdoor testing. The U.K.-based Oxitec...
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Genetic Pesticides Could Target Individual Species
Western corn rootworm beetle USDA When farmers want to kill crop pests or weeds now, they often spray their fields with something that can be deadly to a host of animals or plants. But what if they...
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Unleashing An Epidemic To Kill The Tumbleweeds
Tumbling Alone Photo by Jez Arnold on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0Dana Berner wants to start an epidemic among tumbleweeds. Berner is a pathologist with the U.S. Agricultural Research Service who studies the...
View ArticleCar Crashes . . . Criminals . . . Cancer . . . Black Swans? AAAAAIIIEEEH!
, while the world was focused on the Indian Ocean tsunami, a few astronomers were contemplating the possibility of an even deadlier disaster: that of a massive asteroid…
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Pesticides have greatly boosted agricultural yields over the last half-century, so it is no wonder, given the commercial availability of many of these synthetic chemicals,…
View ArticleThe Amphibial Canary is Dead
While canaries are yet to raise the red flag on pesticide exposure, new research from the University of Pittsburgh shows that "ten of the world's most popular pesticides can…
View ArticleSomething Is Killing Up To Half Of America's Bees
There's some kind of environmental issue/plague/apocalypse killing America's honeybees, but years after it first started happening, scientists are still putting together…
View ArticleSpain Considers Release Of Genetically Modified Olive Fruit Flies
A company involved in creating genetically modified mosquitos has another project nearing outdoor testing. The U.K.-based Oxitec has applied to release genetically modified…
View ArticleGenetic Pesticides Could Target Individual Species
When farmers want to kill crop pests or weeds now, they often spray their fields with something that can be deadly to a host of animals or plants. But what if they could…
View ArticleUnleashing An Epidemic To Kill The Tumbleweeds
Dana Berner wants to start an epidemic among tumbleweeds. Berner is a pathologist with the U.S. Agricultural Research Service who studies the diseases that afflict plants.
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Neonicotinoid Pesticides Make Bees Worse Pollinators
Animals And also kill them Bees live up to their busy reputation. These insects are responsible for pollinating $15 billion worth of crops in the United States.
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Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Microbiota Control
From Our Blogs: Under The Microscope Researchers hope to find a microbial route to lower mosquito populations Controlling malaria requires controlling mosquito populations. Researchers are looking...
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This Drone Sprays Pesticides Around Crops
Aviation Developed in Japan, it's a crop squirter, as opposed to crop duster Drone for agriculture with pesticide.
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Farmers Are Using Bees To Spread Nature's Own Pesticides
Environment Biological pesticides, from bacterial toxins to bee-borne fungi, are a hot trend in agriculture. But harnessing nature is no easy task. BVT is among a swell of companies, from startups to...
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Our rivers and lakes contain a scary number of pesticides and pharmaceuticals
Environment And they only tested for a fraction of the 85,000 known chemicals Human chemicals are drifting into the broader environment and that's a problem. Read on.
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California says a popular herbicide causes cancer
Health But three out of four health agencies disagree. California will require a cancer warning on products containing glyphosate, a commonly used pesticide. Here's what you should know.
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