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How 2019 laid the groundwork for change in the chemical industry
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15.1.2020 |
Design & Innovation | GreenBiz.com |
There's a movement to regulate toxics such as Chlorpyrifos and PFAS. |
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These 21 projects are democratizing data for farmers
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25.11.2019 |
Small Business | GreenBiz.com |
On fields across the world, phones, tablets, drones and other technologies are changing how food is grown. Through these devices, artificial intelligence (AI) — technology able to perform tasks that require human intelligence — may help farmers use the techniques they already know and trust on a bigger scale. And big data — data sets that reveal telling patterns about growth, yield, weather and more — may help farmers make better decisions before crises strike. |
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Policy News: November 4, 2019
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4.11.2019 |
EcoTone |
| In This Issue: Senate Advances Spending Bills, Status of Appropriations Uncertain Bills fund the Departments of Interior and Agriculture, National Science Foundation and more. Congress House passes bills banning mining and drilling the Grand Canyon and Chaco National Historical Park. Executive Branch White House revives President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Courts Conservation ... |
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Chemical companies agree to end fight over pesticide ban
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10.10.2019 |
LA Times: Environment |
| Chemical companies agreed not to fight California's ban of Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to learning disabilities. |
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Don't pull the weeds in Rainbeau Mars' edible garden
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13.9.2019 |
LA Times: Environment |
| Actress turned wellness guru Rainbeau Mars traded her lawn in Venice for an edible landscape of herbs, fruit trees, vegetables and, yup, even nutritious "weeds" like dandelions and stinging nettles. |
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Organic food health benefits have been hard to assess, but that could change
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28.8.2019 |
GreenBiz.com |
Organic growing is proven to be better for biodiversity and chemical exposure, but is the food actually more nutritious? |
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Counterfeit cannabis products stoke black market for California weed
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26.8.2019 |
LA Times: Business |
| All across California, knockoffs of popular cannabis products are popping up, helping to keep the state's flourishing black market alive. |
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Mexican marijuana traffickers are poisoning California forests with a banned pesticide, officials say
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22.8.2019 |
LA Times: Environment |
| Law enforcement officials are targeting pot-growing sites in the Sierra where they say Mexican drug traffickers have been using a dangerous pesticide. |
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What is Chlorpyrifos? Donald Trump's EPA Says It Won't Ban Controversial Pesticide Linked to Brain Development Problems in Children
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19.7.2019 |
Newsweek Top Stories |
| The chemical belongs to a class of pesticides known as organophosphates which are used on more than 50 different crops. |
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Trump Stings Honeybees While They’re Down
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13.7.2019 |
Mother Jones |
| Bees are in a world of trouble right now. A few years ago, the US Environmental Protection Agency took some steps to protect the insects by limiting the use of an insecticide called sulfoxaflor. Made by Corteva, the agricultural arm of DowDupont, sulfoxaflor is “highly toxic to bees and other pollinating insects,” and it also appears […] |
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A deadly fungus is killing millions of bats in the U.S. Now it’s in California
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5.7.2019 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| A mysterious fungus that has killed millions of bats in the eastern United States and left caves littered with their tiny carcasses has arrived in Northern California and appears poised to spread throughout the state, according to officials. Government biologists confirmed Friday that a number...  |
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More bad buzz for bees: Record numbers of honey bee colonies died last winter
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20.6.2019 |
Minnesota Public Radio: News |
An annual survey of beekeepers shows the rate of colony death last winter was the highest reported since the survey began thirteen years ago. |
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Bayer pours $5.6 billion into weedkillers that are not Monsanto’s Roundup
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14.6.2019 |
LA Times: Business |
| Bayer will pump about $5.6 billion of its research and development budget into alternatives to its weedkiller glyphosate over the next decade as it battles more than 13,000 lawsuits claiming the herbicide causes cancer. Trying to ease concerns about the controversial compound, the German chemical...  |
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Rat infestation at L.A. City Hall linked to nearby homeless camps, report finds
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3.6.2019 |
Los Angeles Times - Living Green |
| When faced with complaints earlier this year from city workers about rats infesting L.A. City Hall, most city officials said little about whether the problem was connected to several homeless camps right outside. But a newly uncovered report from a pest control company hired by the city has raised...  |
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New Boulder County GMO crop transition plan still has critics
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1.6.2019 |
Headlines: All Headlines |
| Boulder County open space staff have modified proposed changes to a plan to phase out the production of genetically modified foods on thousands of acres of publicly owned cropland. |
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Springing into action against Roundup -- the mounting evidence against use of glyphosate
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1.6.2019 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| Food & Health
Since the inception of this column, a lot of turf has been covered regarding some very challenging agricultural and food issues related to seed, pesticides, health and sustainable agriculture. Often Monsanto and its activities have come into question.
Less than three weeks ago, the National Farmers Union initiated an online petition calling on the Canadian federal government to ban Roundup and glyphosate.
Monsanto, a huge transnational which has now merged with Bayer, looms large globally when it comes to farmers, weed control, genetic manipulation of seed, Roundup and cancer.
In 2018, Monsanto was bought by Bayer for $63 billion. Bayer now faces close to 14,000 lawsuits against its product glyphosate, and in the past year its stock has dropped by 40 per cent. (And yes, that is the same Bayer that makes aspirins and vitamins, and now, most infamously, the pesticide known as Roundup, and its active ingredient glyphosate.)
In the last few years Monsanto has been on public trial -- despite its ... |
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Safe or scary? The shifting reputation of Roundup
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30.5.2019 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Business |
The world's most widely used weed killer was once seen as one of the safest pesticides. Now it is blamed for causing cancer. Yet the scientific evidence remains disputed. |
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Trump’s ‘pro-life’ administration just killed a program on children’s health
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20.5.2019 |
Los Angeles Times - Living Green |
| For more than 20 years, the federal Environmental Protection Agency and National Institutes of Health have partnered to fund a unique nationwide program studying environmental impacts on children’s health. No more. The Trump administration is zeroing out the EPA contribution to the program, forcing...  |
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Rat poison is killing California's mountain lions. We need to act
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13.5.2019 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| Rats multiply by the millions, transmit horrible diseases and are just about the last thing you’d want to see in your kitchen, attic, garage or office. Densely populated cities with steady supplies of trash are havens for rats. Los Angeles City Hall had an infestation so bad that officials considered...  |
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Climate Change Has Increased Risk of Devastating Banana Disease
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7.5.2019 |
Newsweek Top Stories |
| “The disease was imported to Honduras in 1972 from Asia, and is now present across Latin America and the Caribbean," Daniel Bebber told Newsweek. |
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