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Monday, December 21st, 2009
(Beyond Pesticides, December 21, 2009) Earlier this month, Congressman Jim Moran of Northern Virginia and Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts introduced legislation to explore linkages between hormone disrupting chemicals in the environment and everyday products and the dramatic increase of autism, hyperactivity, diabetes, obesity, breast cancer, prostate cancer and other hormone related disorders. After the [...]
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
(Beyond Pesticides, October 5, 2009) An analysis of more than 100 scientific studies conducted on atrazine, published in the online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives, demonstrates the toxicity of atrazine to aquatic animals. Biologists at the University of Southern Florida (USF) have found evidence that atrazine harms fish and frogs. Atrazine is disruptive to the [...]
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
(Beyond Pesticides, September 18, 2009) Previously documented in the Potomac River, which flows through downtown Washington, DC, the occurrence of “intersex” fish is now found to be nationwide. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) researchers published their study, “Widespread occurrence of intersex in black basses from U.S. rivers” in the online edition of Aquatic Toxicology.
USGS researchers examined [...]
Posted in Chemicals, Endocrine Disruption, Water, Wildlife/Endangered Sp. | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 17th, 2008
(Beyond Pesticides, November 17, 2008) A toxic soup of the most commonly used pesticides frequently detected in nature can adversely affect the environment and decimate amphibian populations even if the concentration of the individual chemicals are within limits considered safe, according to University of Pittsburgh research published in the online edition of Oecologia.
The results [...]
Posted in 2,4-D, Acetochlor, Atrazine, Carbaryl, Chlorpyrifos, Diazinon, Endosulfan, Glyphosate, Malathion, Metolachlor, Water, Wildlife/Endangered Sp. | No Comments »
Monday, October 27th, 2008
(Beyond Pesticides, October 27, 2008) Six pesticides that threaten water quality and public health continue to be detected in groundwater samples, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study. Published in the Journal of Environmental Quality, the study evaluates groundwater contaminants from samples taken from over 300 wells across the U.S. Over the years, [...]
Posted in Atrazine, Metolachlor, Prometon, Tebuthiuron, Water, simazine | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
(Beyond Pesticides, September 23, 2008) According to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s 2007 Water Quality Monitoring Report, released in August 2008, the endocrine disrupting herbicide atrazine is detected in pristine lakes in northern Minnesota far from the agricultural fields where it is applied. Metolachlor, acetochlor and dimethenamid are also frequent contaminants, according to the statewide [...]
Posted in Atrazine, Chemicals, Disease/Health Effects, Endocrine Disruption, Minnesota, State/Local, Water | No Comments »
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
(Beyond Pesticides, July 3, 2008) The results of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study investigating the occurrence of selected pesticides and their degradation products in groundwater shows that these chemicals can persist for years, depending upon the chemical structure of the compounds and the environmental conditions. The study, funded by the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment [...]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
(Beyond Pesticides, March 24, 2008) Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced that they have identified ten contaminants, including pesticides, in the Potomac River, which flows through downtown Washington, DC, that could be responsible for the alarming discovery of “intersex fish,” male fish producing eggs. The suspected chemicals include: atrazine, a common herbicide used [...]
Posted in Atrazine, Chemicals, Chlorpyrifos, Endosulfan, Water, Wildlife/Endangered Sp. | No Comments »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
(Beyond Pesticides, March 3, 2008) In a five-year study of the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that, “Synthetic organic pesticides and their degradation products have been widely detected at low levels in the watershed, including emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals and hormones.“ The report finds that concentrations of [...]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
(Beyond Pesticides, August 2, 2007) According to the Associated Press (AP), a new study finds frogs in Vermont living near farms are more than twice as likely as those living elsewhere to have deformities like missing legs. Yale University ecologist David Skelly, Ph.D., told the AP he decided to look at Vermont frogs because the [...]
Posted in Atrazine, Vermont, Wildlife/Endangered Sp. | 3 Comments »
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
(Beyond Pesticides, March 2, 2007) The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Pesticide Data Program (PDP) recently released its latest annual summary detailing pesticide residues in the U.S. food supply. The data, from 2005, reveals approximately two-thirds of sampled foods contained one or more pesticides at detectable levels.
For the 2005 report, PDP sampled fresh and [...]
Posted in Chemicals, Pesticide Regulation, Water | 1 Comment »