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Scientists say it's time for new research on how herbicides affect public health. -
An opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine cites the sharp rise in the amount of herbicides applied to genetically modified crops and a recent WHO report, which found that glyphosate—the world's most widely used herbicide—is probably carcinogenic. Reuters
Do the study after we are sued.
—A DuPont employee's note from a 1991 discussion of whether or not the company should study how C8, a chemical used in Teflon, affected workers' livers. A three-part series explores the company's deceptive behavior regarding the chemical, which is now ubiquitous in the environment (and the blood of 99.7 percent of Americans).
I think most people's logic would tell them that's not a practice consistent with organic standards.
—Adam Scow, California director of Food and Water Watch, on a major loophole within the U.S. Department of Agriculture's organic regulations, which is allowing farmers to irrigate crops with fracking wastewater
Invasive plants are wreaking billions of dollars in damage worldwide. -
A new study finds that humans have caused more than 13,000 plant species—that's nearly 4 percent of all species—to take root in places where they're not native. And as they outcompete the local flora, it's costing us big time. Tech Times
A study finds neonicotinoids in more than half the streams tested across the country. -
With samples from both urban and agricultural streams across 24 states and Puerto Rico, the U.S. Geological Survey found the class of insecticides linked to honeybee deaths in more than half of them. KTVZ