Insecticides

In May of 1993, rice farmers living near Lake Shinji, in southwestern Japan, began widely using an insecticide called imidacloprid. Within the same year, populations of arthropods that form the base of the food web, such as crustaceans and zooplankton, began to plummet. By the end of 1994, two commercially important fish that depend on these creatures for food, eel and smelt, crashed as well. And as the use of imidacloprid and other neonicotinoids has grown over the years, the fish have never recovered.

One of the most iconic Halloween symbols has been suffering a severe population drop for more than a decade, officials from the the Connecticut Deprtment of Energy and Environemntal Protection said Monday.

What's normal Across Connecticut is that bats are on the move with three species of tree bats moving south for the winter and while the six cave bat species moving "shorter distances," where they will spend the winter hibernating, DEEP officials said.

The renowned author and whistleblower Evaggelos Vallianatos describes British environmentalist and campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason as a “defender of the natural world and public health.” I first came across her work a few years ago. It was in the form of an open letter she had sent to an official about the devastating environmental and human health impacts of glyphosate-based weed killers. What had impressed me was the document she had sent to accompany the letter.

Selon France Nature Environnement, de nombreux cours d’eau et les points d’eau comme les mares, étangs, zones humides ne figurent pas dans la liste des zones à protéger ! De plus, selon FNE, les préfectures ont également ignoré les périmètres de protection de captage d’eau potable. FNE de notre Région estimant que cette définition est bien trop restrictive pour permettre une bonne protection de la ressource en eau contre les pollutions par les pesticides a alerté le Préfet de région et les préfets de département.

In der Landwirtschaft sind Insektengifte nicht immer zu vermeiden. Manche Substanzen wie die Neonicotinoide beseitigen allerdings nicht nur Schädlinge, sondern schädigen auch Bienen. Der Bayer-Konzern, einer der Hersteller, gerät unter Druck: "ZDFzoom"-Recherchen haben ergeben, dass manche Giftstoffe längst hätten verboten werden müssen. Auch die Übernahme von Monsanto und Schadenersatzklagen in Sachen Glyphosat haben dem Konzern zugesetzt. Am Mittwoch, 30. Oktober 2019, 22.45 Uhr, berichtet "ZDFzoom" über "BAYER, Bauern und die Bienen - Ein Konzern unter Druck". Bereits am Sonntag, 27.

Hibernating bats may be storing pesticides from contaminated insect food in their flesh over winter, lowering their immune systems and putting them at greater risk of disease and death, says the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF).

Researchers found that exposure to certain chemicals in consumer products during the first trimester of pregnancy is linked to lower IQ in children by age 7. Among the first of its kind, the study, carried out by scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Karlstad University, Sweden, linked mixtures of suspected endocrine-disrupting chemicals to prenatal neurodevelopment.