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Child Dies After Ingesting Pesticide Also Used to Kill Lions
Environment  (tags: environment, pesticides, habitat, nature, wildlife, humans, death )

Cher
- 42 days ago - ecoworldly.com
According to reports, little Kimutai, a three-year-old child from Kenya, died hours after ingesting carbofuran, an odorless pesticide used to control insects on many crops including rice, beans, bananas, pineapple, coffee and vegetables.
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Bananas!* Exposes Dole's Poisonous Practices! Video!
Environment  (tags: environment, bananas, pesticides, habitat, humans, protection )

Cher
- 134 days ago - ecoworldly.com
An explosive new documentary, Bananas!*, examines global food politics by following the crusade of lawyer Juan J. Dominguez, as he fights for the rights of thousands of banana plantation workers in Nicaragua who have been made sterile from exposure to
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We Need Food and Farming Regulation NOW!
Environment  (tags: industrial, agriculture, animals, fda, factory, farming, birds, environment, ecosystems, habitat, destruction, nature, humans, pollution, oceans, methane, CO2, water, wells, fertilizer, poison, cancer, pesticides )

Tom
- 222 days ago - opednews.com
Taxpayers want government to enforce regulations and create rules to limit excess and greed in banking, insurance, housing, and on Wall Street. Let's not forget to regulate industrial agriculture. It is one of our most polluting and dangerous industries.
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Beautiful Terror: Pesticides All Around Us?
Environment  (tags: humans, nature, pesticides, environment, world, artist, interesting, photography )

Holly
- 592 days ago - motherearthnews.com
With a unique and engaging medium, artist Laurie Tumer reveals the ubiquity of pesticides in our environment.
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Bees Are Trying to Tell Us Something, and We Had Better Listen!
Environment  (tags: Bees, animals, people, ecosystems, endangered, environment, Habitat Destruction, cell phones, wireless, human-animals, pesticides, Earth )

Victoria
- 715 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Bees are dying across the world at a terrifying rate. The apian epidemic started in the United States, where entire populations of honey bees have simply vanished in the phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD).
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In Long Island Sound the Lobsters Are Disappearing - Why?
Environment  (tags: lobsters, Connecticut, Long Island Sound, environment, global warming, oceans, pesticides, pollution )

RC
- 814 days ago - washingtonpost.com
I grew up on the Sound...lobster pots were everywhere out in the open water. Now the lobsters are dramatically dying off - is it pesticide pollution, global warming of the ocean or a combination of both?
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US: We Want to Cotinue Using Poison
Environment  (tags: methyl bromide, United States, fumigants, pesticides, Montreal Protocol on Substances that Dep, ozone layer )

RC
- 826 days ago - ipsnews.net
Delegates from 191 nations are on the verge of an agreement under the Montreal Protocol for faster elimination of ozone-depleting chemicals, but the United States insists it must continue to use the banned pesticide methyl bromide.
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Rachel Carson Defended Nature
Environment  (tags: pesticides, animals, science, protection, pollution, environment )

Sandra
- 851 days ago - environmentalism.suite101.com
Rachel Carson was a scientist and writer ahead of her time and had the courage to speak out on the dangers and long term effects of pesticides on the environment.
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Great Barrier Reef 'Swamped By Pollutants'
Environment  (tags: australia, great barrier reef, pesticides, environment, destruction, endangered, globalwarming, pollution )

Chrissy
- 870 days ago - news.com.au
CANCER-causing pollutants and insecticides are pouring out to the Great Barrier Reef from contaminated rivers, a major study has found. Banned organochlorine pesticides have also been found in mud crabs living in some of the marine park's key rivers.
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Organic Bees Are Thriving While Pesticide Intensive Conventional Bee Hive Colonies Are Collapsing
Environment  (tags: bees, hive collapse, pesticides )

Ramona
- 955 days ago - organicconsumers.org
While no one is certain why honey bee colonies are collapsing, factory farmed honey bees are more susceptible to stress from environmental sources than organic or feral honey bees. Most people think beekeeping is all natural but in commercial operations
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Mountain Frogs Succumb to High-Flying Pesticides
Environment  (tags: Mountain breezes, environment, pesticidesrainforest, Pesticides )

June
- 1030 days ago - environment.newscientist.com
Mountain breezes might not be as fresh as we imagine, at least in some parts of the world. Pesticides used on banana, coffee and rice plantations are contaminating remote Central American tropical rainforests
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