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[Shamelessly reposted from my ad-free blog, for Earth Day 2024.] Butterflies are free. Monarchs may arrive at their winter home late, be choosy about where to land, and may leave early. At around 10,000 feet, the dormant volcanic peaks are covered in...
by CorpFlunky
on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 07:31 AM PDT
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Martinique and Guadeloupe are “ overseas departments ” of France in the Caribbean. Both are former colonies where slavery was abolished by the French National Convention in 1794, then ...
by Denise Oliver Velez
on Thu Jan 12, 2023 at 05:29 AM PST
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“Our food is less nutritious than ever. It doesn’t have to stay that way. Conventional farming’s narrow focus on yields has led to a decline in the nutritional quality of many crops, making our food less healthy than it was just 50 years ago. Yields...
by nailkeg
on Thu Jul 21, 2022 at 02:07 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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If you are into gardening, odds are you are very careful about what you do with your soil. Composting is a good way to recycle nutrients back into the soil. Adding manure can be an especially good ingredient — or it can kill off your plants. How? More...
by xaxnar
on Mon Nov 08, 2021 at 07:54 AM PST
with 30 Recommends
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Both private prison profiteer GEO Group and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue to endanger the lives of detained immigrants through the irresponsible use of pesticides. The Counter reports the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has...
by Gabe Ortiz
on Fri Aug 13, 2021 at 10:59 AM PDT
with 35 Recommends
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A court ruling requiring that the EPA make a decision on banning pesticides that cause brain damage in children ended this week in the worst possible way, as EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler overrode the recommendation of the—now gutted—EPA scientific...
by Mark Sumner
on Fri Jul 19, 2019 at 01:35 PM PDT
with 124 Recommends
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Sulfoxaflor is a systemic insecticide that works by destroying the nervous system. Insects exposed go into tremors, then spasms, then death. Unfortunately, insects exposed means essentially all ...
by Mark Sumner
on Wed Feb 20, 2019 at 03:30 PM PST
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This is sickening.
Scott Pruitt’s EPA is considering using the pollinator killing thiamethoxam pesticide on major food crops which cover 165 million acres of US farmland. Crops that will be sprayed are wheat, barley, corn, sorghum, alfalfa, rice...
by Pakalolo
on Wed Dec 20, 2017 at 05:54 AM PST
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Last week, the EPA, headed by anti-science Scott Pruitt, rejected their own scientific studies and conclusions in order to allow the pesticide chorpyrifos to stay on the market. Considering that chorpyrifos is linked to nervous system damage in...
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Apr 06, 2017 at 08:36 AM PDT
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I don’t judge people by their looks, intelligence, bank account or fame. I only judge people by the good things they have done to save and improve lives. It’s a simple equation. Using a similar life calculator, Dr. Paul Offit, in an article in...
by SkepticalRaptor
on Mon Feb 06, 2017 at 03:43 PM PST
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Did you down a glass of neonicotinoids today? They’re delicious, nutritious, and totally not killing all the bees.
An ever-accumulating weight of evidence links declining honeybee health with neonicotinoids, which have exploded in use since the...
by Mark Sumner
on Wed Nov 16, 2016 at 07:28 AM PST
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The EPA has come out with a report that concludes that glyphosate is not likely to cause cancer in humans. The report was part of a larger review process into agricultural chemicals and deciding if farmers will be allowed to use them. It looked at 23...
by LiberalTexan11
on Tue Sep 20, 2016 at 02:38 PM PDT
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The EPA has a process by which is allows chemicals like pesticides into the public market. Frequently, the EPA gives a tentative approval to a product under the identification “conditional” basis. Thi
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Mar 03, 2016 at 12:37 PM PST
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For families in Latin America, and women across the world in the mosquito zone concerned about giving birth to children with microcephaly, the news that Latin American doctors are suggesting Monsanto
by akmk
on Mon Feb 15, 2016 at 11:41 AM PST
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I now think of my local grocery store as the Chemical and Cholesterol Store. The areas within it (and most stores are designed in a similar way in order to get you to buy more) are these:
1. ...
by A Southerner in Yankeeland
on Wed Oct 21, 2015 at 12:49 PM PDT
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"Mommy, I don't like the smell. Let's go away from here."
I look at my darling 7 year old daughter wrinkling her nose. "We'll be out of it quickly," I reply. We are at a home improvement super ...
by phoenixvoice
on Thu Jun 04, 2015 at 07:43 AM PDT
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On April 20, 2015, a giant class action lawsuit was filed in California against Monsanto. To date, it appears that NONE of the Mainstream Media outlets have reported on it. See below the squiggle ...
by jbourgui
on Wed May 27, 2015 at 03:37 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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(photo: Burnt Umber)
From Whitehouse.gov :
In response to the challenges to commercial bee-keeping, the President’s 2015 Budget recommends ...
by ericlewis0
on Fri Jun 20, 2014 at 10:08 AM PDT
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Residents fed up with being ground zero for Monsanto's GMO and Pesticide experimentation are attempting to qualify a ballot initiative calling for a Temporary Moritorium on GMO cultivation in the ...
by Karen from Maui
on Fri Feb 28, 2014 at 12:49 PM PST
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Hawai'i is ground zero for the AgriChemical/GMO corporations like Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow and DuPont. These corporations use our islands to experiment with new pesticides and GMO seeds.
On Moloka'...
by Karen from Maui
on Wed Jan 15, 2014 at 03:03 PM PST
with 13 Recommends
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