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Reading people urged to join bee campaign
19 september 2012Reading people are being urged to get busy as a national bee campaign takes to the streets on Saturday. The…Bijen
New American video documentary about the global death of honeybees, bumblebees and other pollinators
18 september 2012There is a new American video documentary about the global death of honeybees, bumblebees and other pollinators. This hard-hitting film…Bijen
Human Health And Global Biodiversity Lies In The Hands Of The Pesticides Industry
18 september 2012The attached report by Dr. Rosemary Mason and Palle Uhd Jepsen provides evidence that, unwittingly or otherwise, a long-term strategy…Bijen
Drinking Water in Several Oregon Schools Found To Be Contaminated With Multiple Pesticides
18 september 2012Traces of pesticides in drinking water were found in eleven rural elementary schools in Oregon, according to a U.S. Department…Mensen
Letter to the Independent by C I Rose: Tragedy of our disappearing bees
17 september 2012Rachel Carson would be horrified – our bees and insect-eating birds become scarcer year by year and there is overwhelming…Algemeen
Mankind farmed successfully for thousands of years without the use of toxic poisons
17 september 2012This month is the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Silent Spring," Rachel Carson's landmark book calling attention to the…
Endangered status considered for Bicknell’s thrush
15 september 2012The Bicknell's thrush (Catharus bicknelli), a rare songbird that breeds atop mountains in the Adirondacks and northern New England and…Bosvogels
Calling sparrows back to our courtyards
15 september 2012The issue of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) disappearing from big cities, including Delhi, has been a cause of concern for…Stadsvogels
The rusty-patched bumble bee is the first bee in North America to be officially declared an endangered species
14 september 2012There is no sign of the rusty-patched bumble bee which used to be one of the most common bees in…Hommels
European and American reports say nerve agents may be a danger, but the UK goes on using them
7 september 2012Nerve-agent pesticides should not be banned in Britain despite four separate scientific studies strongly linking them to sharp declines in…Bijen
American Environmental & Public Interest Groups Plan to Sue the EPA over its Approval of Wildlife-Endangering Pesticides
7 september 2012Today, a number of groups including: the Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and the Sierra Club, (along with affected…Bijen
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) to review science on pesticides and bee health
6 september 2012In Europe and the USA there have been concerns for some time about the potential for insecticides to impact on…Bijen
Agrochemicals – the Silent Killers
1 september 2012The purpose of the attached reports by Rosemary Mason and Palle Uhd Jepsen is to highlight the problems of the…Bijen
Review of what is known about White-nose syndrome and Geomyces destructans
31 augustus 2012White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a newly emergent disease that potentially threatens all temperate bat species. A recently identified fungus, Geomyces…VleermuizenIt is imperative that society recognises the hazards and risks of using insecticides
31 augustus 2012The worldwide use of pesticides in agriculture results in residues of insecticides being commonly found in many environments, from the…
Current methods for risk assessment of pesticides are deficient and inadequate
31 augustus 2012Our understanding of the mechanisms of toxicity at different levels of biological organisation has not kept abreast with the overwhelming…
U.S. Agencies Request Comment by October 16 on Proposed Process Improvements for Pesticide Endangered Species Consultations to Enhance Opportunities for Stakeholder Input
28 augustus 2012In an August 17, 2012, Federal Register notice, EPA announced that it is seeking comments on a proposal jointly developed…
Stay away from bats
28 augustus 2012Rabies is a virus that affects the nervous system of humans and other mammals. Humans can get rabies after being…VleermuizenStarving bats in search of food
28 augustus 2012THE Tweed's bats are going through tough times and a lack of food has forced the animals to invade people's…Vleermuizen
Mysterious illness killing bats – could it add to the West Nile threat?
28 augustus 2012In a season of growing concern about the West Nile Virus, a mysterious illness that has killed millions of mosquito-eating…Vleermuizen
Geomyces destructans (the cause of white-nose syndrome in bats) surveillance in Great Britain
28 augustus 2012Geomyces destructans, a fungal infection of insectivorous hibernating bats is the cause of white-nose syndrome (WNS). This has caused the…Vleermuizen
Pesticides Endanger Bats
27 augustus 2012A study by the University of Koblenz-Landau revealed that pesticide contamination of their diet can lead to long-term effects in…Vleermuizen
HEALTH EFFECTS OF GLYPHOSATE
24 augustus 2012In 2009 Argentine government scientist Professor Andrés Carrasco announced his findings that glyphosate herbicide causes malformations in frog and chicken…The teratogenic potential of the herbicide glyphosate-Roundup in Wistar rats
24 augustus 2012The aim of this study was to assess the teratogenicity of the herbicide glyphosate-Roundup† (as commercialized in Brazil) to Wistar…
