"Honeybee Decline Linked To Killer Virus"
"Parasitic mites wiping out bee colonies by transmitting deadly virus directly into the bloodstream of the bees, research reveals"
Source: Guardian, 06/08/2012
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White House Blocking EPA Rules on Nanomaterials, Advocates Say
"The White House appears to be blocking Environmental Protection Agency efforts to tighten oversight of engineered nanoscale pesticides and other chemicals, according to environmental and safety advocates."
Source: BNA, 05/25/2012
Mass. Health Officials: More Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Not Sure Why
"RAYNHAM -- A new study on Eastern equine encephalitis shows the number of people in Massachusetts who have contracted the mosquito-borne virus has grown in recent years."
Source: Brockton Enterprise, 05/22/2012
"Just What's Inside Those Breasts?"
"When writer Florence Williams was nursing her second child, she read a research study about toxins found in human breast milk. She decided to test her own breast milk and shipped a sample to a lab in Germany. What came back surprised her. Trace amounts of pesticides, dioxin and a jet fuel ingredient — as well as high to average levels of flame retardants — were all found in her breast milk. How could something like this happen?"
Source: Fresh Air, 05/17/2012
"Super Weeds No Easy Fix For US Agriculture -- Experts"
"A fast-spreading plague of 'super weeds' taking over U.S. farmland will not be stopped easily, and farmers and government officials need to change existing practices if food production is to be protected, industry experts said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 05/11/2012
EPA Is Pressed To Ban Chemicals That Studies Link To Honeybees' Demise
"Where have all the bees gone? The question has vexed farmers, beekeepers, regulators and scientists since the fall of 2006, when U.S. bee populations began their mysterious decline."
Source: Greenwire, 04/25/2012
Comment: "Silent Hives"
"In 2006, when beekeepers began to report that their hives were suffering from a mysterious affliction, a wide variety of theories were offered to explain what was going on. ... Over the last few weeks, several new studies have come out linking neonicotinoids to bee decline. As it happens, the studies are appearing just as 'Silent Spring,' Rachel Carson’s seminal study of the effect of pesticides on wildlife, is about to turn fifty: the work was first published as a three-part series in The New Yorker, in June, 1962. It’s hard to avoid the sense that we have all been here before, and that lessons were incompletely learned the first time around."
Source: New Yorker, 04/23/2012
"Studies Show Why Insecticides Are Bad News For Bees"
"The search for the killer of America's bees is a little bit like an Agatha Christie novel. Suspicion has turned toward one shady character and then another: declining habitat; parasites; diseases; pesticides.
Or did they all conspire in the recent mass murder of the country's bees?
Source: NPR, 03/30/2012
Nerve Gas, Insecticide Possible Cause of Gulf War Illness: Researchers
"The memory and attention problems plaguing thousands of veterans from the first Gulf War might be caused by low-level exposure to insecticides and nerve gas, said researchers at Georgia Health Sciences University."
Source: Augusta Chronicle, 03/20/2012
"Scientists Warn of Low-Dose Risks of Chemical Exposure"
"A new study finds that even low doses of hormone-disrupting chemicals -- used in everything from plastics to pesticides -- can have serious effects on human health. These findings, the researchers say, point to the need for basic changes in how chemical safety testing is conducted."
Source: YaleE360, 03/20/2012
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