"Studies Link Low IQ To Prenatal Pesticide Exposure"
"High levels of pesticide exposure in pregnant women have been linked to lower IQs in their children, according to three separate US studies."
Source: Sydney Morning Herald, 04/22/2011
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"U.N. Suggests Pesticides, Chemicals For Watch List"
"The United Nations has suggested three pesticides and three industrial chemicals be put on a trade "watch list" because they can threaten human health and the environment, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday."
Source: Reuters, 04/04/2011
"Is a Pesticide Harming All Those Bees?"
Questions are mounting about the possible role of a new family of pesticides, the neonicotinoides, in the "colony collapse disorder" that is decimating commercial honeybees. Will EPA reconsider its approval of those pesticides?
Source: Green (NYT), 04/04/2011
"Trash, Toxic Emissions Up at Local Landfills"
"With more trash coming into Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Dunmore, dangerous air emissions are on the rise, a Sunday Times analysis of state records found. The review also found the state Department of Environmental Protection relies upon the landfills to monitor air quality and report problems."
Source: Scranton Times Tribune, 03/21/2011
"New Tests Reveal Many Pesticides Block Male Hormones"
"Many agricultural pesticides – including some previously untested and commonly found in food – disrupt male hormones, according to new tests conducted by British scientists. The researchers strongly recommended that all pesticides in use today be screened to check if they block testosterone, which is critical to men’s and boys’ reproductive health. Thirty out of 37 pesticides tested by the University of London altered male hormones, including 16 that had no known hormonal activity until now. Most are fungicides applied to fruit and vegetable crops, including strawberries and lettuce."
Source: EHN, 02/15/2011
Australia: "Mothballs Warning Sounded by Experts"
"A team of pediatricians has called for a ban on naphthalene, used in mothballs, after the death of a baby and catastrophic brain injuries to two others."
Source: Sydney Morning Herald, 02/08/2011
"EPA Moves to Curb Pesticide Tests on Human Subjects"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed tight restrictions on using people as test subjects — or, as critics have put it, guinea pigs — in pesticide research."
Source: FairWarning, 01/31/2011
"EPA Sued Over Pesticides, Endangered Species"
"Environmental conservation groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to force it to tighten regulation of pesticide use, arguing that the agency was not consulting wildlife officials."
Source: Reuters, 01/24/2011
"Bees Facing a Poisoned Spring"
"A new generation of pesticides is making honeybees far more susceptible to disease, even at tiny doses, and may be a clue to the mysterious colony collapse disorder that has devastated bees across the world, the US government's leading bee researcher has found. Yet the discovery has remained unpublished for nearly two years since it was made by the US Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory."
Source: UK Independent, 01/20/2011
"Why Bedbugs Won't Die"
"The first comprehensive genetic study of bedbugs, the irritating pests that have enjoyed a world-wide resurgence in recent years, indicates they are quickly evolving to withstand the pesticides used to combat them."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 01/20/2011
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