07-07-2014This is the time of the year when night life has a new meaning. The city's fireflies, with their alluring,…
05-07-2014Imidacloprid, one of the most commonly used insecticides, is highly toxic to bees and other beneficial insects. The regulatory challenge…
02-07-2014Since the end of World War II there has been a decline in forest songbird populations over much of the…
01-07-2014Prairie bird populations are falling in many Midwestern states, from ring-necked pheasants to horned larks to sparrows. Scientists now say…
29-06-2014Last year, the barn owl (Tyto alba) suffered its worst breeding season in over 30 years, and now the charity…
29-06-2014When a creature becomes extinct, we are left with whatever essence of its existence can be conveyed through science, art…
28-06-2014The mainstream media inexplicably seems to downplay the links between chronic pesticide exposure and birth defects, but a new study…
24-06-2014Babies whose moms lived within a mile of crops treated with widely used pesticides were more likely to develop autism,…
22-06-2014Concerns over the role of pesticides affecting vertebrate wildlife populations have recently focussed on systemic products which exert broad-spectrum toxicity.…
21-06-2014A recent study by Robert Meese of the University of California states that the tricolored blackbird (Agelaius tricolor) species of…
