Environment
Researchers: Honeybee deaths linked to seed insecticide exposure (PR)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Honeybee populations have been in serious decline for years, and Purdue University scientists may have identified one of the factors that
Atrazine harms amphibians and other water animals
Maria Cendejas and editing by Stacey Sexton
An international team of researchers has taken another look at how exposure to atrazine, an herbicide, is linked to ...
Texas AgriLife Research building better melons (PR)
September 19, 2011 By: Paul Schattenberg (AgriLife Communications), 210-467-6575For photos with cut lines, go to: http://agrilife.org/today/2011/09/19/agrilife-research-melons/Texas AgriLife Research scientists making better melonsDrought heats up further interest on ...
Battles to end fluoridation have progressed in August (PR)
Dear Readers,
The momentum continues to build in the battle against fluoridation as Pottstown, Pennsylvania has joined the list of communities that have rejected water fluoridation. In August, ...
Why this Should Be Banned: Huge Contaminant in Water, Air and Soil...
Posted By Dr. Mercola | September 08 2011 | 6,315 views
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When environmental cleanup costs are included, dental amalgams are the most expensive type of dental fillings available
Dental amalgams is ...
National Peanut Board Members and Alternates Appointed
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE
United States Department of Agriculture | 1400 Independence Ave., SW | Room 4512-S
Washington, DC 20250 | (202) 720-8998 | http://www.ams.usda.gov
AMS No. 185-11
Gwen Sparks, (202) 260-8210
gwen.sparks@ams.usda.gov
National Peanut Board ...
50% of Rats Given this Died -- Why is it On Your Dinner Plate?
Posted By Dr. Mercola | August 05 2011
The first report was recently issued on ambient levels of glyphosate and its major degradation product, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), in air ...
How Dairy Farms Contribute to Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Ann Perry
July 19, 2011
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have produced the first detailed data on how large-scale dairy facilities contribute to the emission ...
EWG Meat Eater’s Guide Spotlights Beef’s Outsize Carbon Footprint (PR)
For Immediate Release, Monday, July 18, 2011Contact: Sara Sciammacco; ssciammacco@ewg.org
EWG Meat Eater’s Guide Spotlights Beef’s Outsize Carbon Footprint
Report Finds Wide Variation in Environmental, Health Impacts of ...
Chesapeake Bay Pesticides: Some Diminish, Some Persist
By Ann Perry
July 7, 2011
Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are identifying factors that influence pesticide levels in the Chesapeake Bay airshed, including traces of "legacy" ...
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