"Beekeeping -- Rural Greece Does It Best"
Beekeepers in the remote hills of southern Greece are not seeing colony collapse disorder in their hives. The reason may be that the bees are not exposed to pesticides.
Source: AFP, 04/22/2013
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"News Analysis: Think Those Chemicals Have Been Tested?"
"Many Americans assume that the chemicals in their shampoos, detergents and other consumer products have been thoroughly tested and proved to be safe. This assumption is wrong."
Source: NY Times, 04/17/2013
Feds Will Take Their Time Evaluating Pesticide Linked to Bee Deaths
While honey bee die-offs often called "colony collapse disorder" have been increasing for several years, so has scientific evidence that a widely used class of pesticides called neonicotinoids could well be an important contributing cause. In 2011, EPA said it would review its approval on one such pesticide. Now it says it expects to finish in five years.
Source: Mother Jones, 04/15/2013
"Slaking a Region’s Thirst While Cleaning Its Beaches"
"LOS ANGELES -- Surfers here have long lived by a simple rule: When it rains, no matter how good the waves may be, stay out of the water. Those who do head out to the Venice Pier on a rainy day might have their bravery (or naïveté) repaid with pinkeye, a fever or diarrhea."
Source: NY Times, 04/08/2013
"Standards Aim To Strengthen Food Safety"
"Listeria in cantaloupes. Salmonella in peanuts. E. coli in spinach. Hepatitis A in green onions. In the past decade a rash of tainted food has resulted in thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths. It has also prompted the most sweeping reform of U.S. food safety laws in more than 70 years."
Source: Ft. Myers News-Press, 04/08/2013
Pesticide Lobby Spends Millions To Defend Chemicals Tied To Bee Deaths
"WASHINGTON -- The chemical pesticide lobby is waging a multi-million dollar battle to prevent regulation of chemicals linked to the dramatic escalation in the deaths of pollinating bees over the past year."
Source: Huffington Post, 04/01/2013
"High Levels of Flame Retardants Found on Airliners"
"Spending about 100 hours each month in the air, flight attendants are bombarded with pesticides, radiation, ozone and any illnesses passengers carry on board. Now new research shows that they also fly along with some of the highest levels ever measured for some flame retardants."
Source: EHN, 03/28/2013
"Study: Two-Thirds of Pesticides Got Flawed EPA Approval"
"Many pesticides used in consumer products and agriculture received federal approval through a loophole that doesn't require thorough testing, according to a study released Wednesday by an environmental group."
Source: USA TODAY, 03/28/2013
"Are Agriculture's Most Popular Insecticides Killing Our Bees?"
"Environmentalists and beekeepers are calling on the government to ban some of the country's most widely used insect-killing chemicals."
Source: NPR, 03/26/2013
"Bay’s Intersex Fish Mystery Remains Unsolved"
"Ten years have gone by since one of the weirdest discoveries in the Chesapeake Bay region, on the south branch of the Potomac River — male smallmouth bass with lady parts, eggs in places where they absolutely should not be."
Source: Wash Post, 03/18/2013
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