Category:Pesticides

Pesticide Impacts

Missing Bugs

• Via the Guardian / Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

• Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’

The world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review.

The analysis, published in the journal Biological Conservation, says intensive agriculture is the main driver of the declines, particularly the heavy use of pesticides.

The Poison Papers

Documenting the Hidden History of Chemical and Pesticide Hazards in the United States

• https://www.poisonpapers.org/

• http://www.poisonpapers.org/assets/uploads/2017/07/DocumentCloud-Tutorial.pdf

• https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/Group:%20independentsciencenews

Factoid: According to the Environmental Protection Agency (as of 2015), there are more than 865 registered pesticides registered in the US

The “Poison Papers” represent a vast trove of rediscovered chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back to the 1920s. Taken as a whole, the papers show that both industry and regulators understood the extraordinary toxicity of many chemical products and worked together to conceal this information from the public and the press. These papers will transform our understanding of the hazards posed by certain chemicals on the market and the fraudulence of some of the regulatory processes relied upon to protect human health and the environment.

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