Herbicides

Don't Call It 'Dirt': Why Healthy Soil Means Healthy People

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Soil Health, Organic Farming, Pesticides, Factory Farms, Herbicides, Cancer, Symphony of the Soil, Green News

Jack Algiere has no qualms about letting his kids eat their veggies straight out of the ground from the fields and greenhouses he manages in Pocantico...

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Anti-Monsanto Activist Received Anonymous Death Threats

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Agrobussiness, Pesticides, Monsanto Farmers, Roundup, Sofia Gatica, Public Health, Environment, Glyphosate Argentina, Birth Defects, Cancer, Herbicides, Monsanto, Monsanto Soy, Glyphosate, Genetic Engineering, Green News

For 13 years Sofia Gatica has organized opposition to the aerial spraying of agrochemicals that threaten human health and the environment in Argentina...

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The Fox (Monsanto) Buys the Chicken Coop (Beeologics)

Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Genetically Modified Food, Bees, Herbicides, Colony Collapse Disorder, Corn, Monsanto Remembee, Monsanto Bees, Green News

Why would one of the largest purveyors of pesticides, genetically engineered seeds and agrochemicals want to buy a company which has been seeking solutions to the escalating threats to the world bee population?

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Food and Environment Smorgasbord

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Herbicides, Food Production, Sustainable Food, Food and Population, Herbicides Food, Food Technology, Food Crops Herbicides, Raising Resistance Film, Green News

What happens in Las Vegas may stay in Las Vegas, but what is sprayed on industrial farms does not necessarily stay on those industrial farms.

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'Green News Report' - April 26, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Green News Report, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, Solar Energy, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Dow Chemical, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, BRAD BLOG, Tipping Point, Green News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Ice Melt, Wind Energy, Roundup, Antarctica, David Cameron, Exxonmobil, Factory Farms, Clean Energy, Herbicides, Pollution, Coal, Monsanto, Drought, Nuclear, Stephen Chu, Britain, Sea Level Rise; Chernobyl, Iea, Corn, Oil Profits, Agent Orange, Toxic Chemicals, Donald Trump, Wildfires, International Energy Agency, Ice Sheets, Jimmy Fallon, Slow Jam the News, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Just a fl...

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Chemical Marketplace: The Fine Print on a Common Pesticide, Writ Large

Bill Chameides | Posted 03.27.2012

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.More than 80,000 chemicals are produced, used, and present in the United States. This is one of their stories. Do you we...

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Dow and Monsanto's Plan to Increase the Toxic Pesticides Sprayed in America's Heartland

Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Farming, Pesticides, Biotechnology, Monsanto, Corn, Dow Chemical, Beef, Roundup Herbicide, Sustainable Farming, Agent Orange, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, Green News

These two biotech giants have developed a weed management program that, if successful, would go a long way toward a predicted doubling of harmful herbicide use in America's corn belt during the next decade.

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It's the Water, Stupid: The Perils of Clearcutting

Bob Burnett | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Global Waming, Roundup Herbicide, Clearcutting, Herbicides, Sierra Pacific Corporation, Sierra Nevada, Global Climate Change, Green News

There are many signs that California's water supply is imperiled by global climate change. Clearcutting increases the probability that the Sierra Nevada watershed will be furthered diminished or rendered unfit for consumption.

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Beetle Develops Resistance To Monsanto's GMO Corn

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Farming, Beetles, Gmos, Monsanto Genetically Modified Corn, Corn Beetles, Genetically Modified Corn, Corn, Agriculture, Green News, Herbicides, Monsanto, Toxins, Genetically Modified Crops, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Corn beetles have been consuming plants that were genetically modified to be resistant to that very beetle, raising fears that a new sup...

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Are There Any Safe Organic Herbicides To Fight Weeds?

Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Organic Gardening, Organic Garden, Nature, Organic Weeding, Herbicides, Organic Herbicides, Green Herbicide, Garden Herbicides, Green News

From Organic Gardening: Q: Although our brick patio has a plastic liner, weeds are starting to pop up in the cracks. The tight spacing between the ...

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What's Wrong With Local Food? Local and Organic Food and Farming: The Gold Standard

Ronnie Cummins | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Fertilizer, Pesticides, Herbicides, Local Food, Organic Food, Greenhouse Gases, Food Miles, Sustainable Food, Green News

Beyond the greenwashing and co-opting of the term, what does "local" food and farming really mean? What is the impact of non-organic local food and farming on public health, nutrition, biodiversity, and climate?

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Revenge of the Weeds

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Permaculture, Monoculture, War, Addiction, Agribusiness, Aboriginal Culture, Herbicides, Agent Orange, English Language, Politics News

Today's big news stories -- the wars, the eco-disasters -- all seem to have the same gaping hole in them. This hole is lack of awareness, and its thru...

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Farmers May Return To Harsh Herbicides, Chemicals To Battle Roundup Resistant Weeds

AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Organic Farming, Weeds, Roundup, Cotton, Agriculture, Herbicides, Superweeds, Monsanto, Agent Orange, 2 4-D, Dicamba, Runoff, Conventional Farming, Resistant, Wildlife, Green News

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When the weed killer Roundup was introduced in the 1970s, it proved it could kill nearly any plant while still being safer tha...

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

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Get Off Your Grass and Create an Edible Lawn! with Brigitte Mars

Brigitte Mars | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Organix Fertizlizer, Weeds, Fungacides, Compost, Insecticides, Health, Environment, Pesiticides, Environmentalism, Herbicides, Water Supply, Gardens, Healthy Living News

An estimated sixty-seven million pounds of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides are applied around homes and gardens yearly. Commercial and government landscapes, apply another 165 million pounds.

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American Water Company Joins Lawsuit Against Syngenta, Maker Of Atrazine Herbicide

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iowa, Weeds, Epa, Ohio, Public Health, Utilities, Herbicides, American Water Company, Chemicals, Pollution, Water Utility, Weed Killer, Syngenta, Toxic Chemicals, Switzerland, Atrazine, Kansas, Clean Water, Missouri, Delaware, Illinois, Standards, Drinking Water, Green News

The nation's largest private water utility company has joined a federal lawsuit that aims to force the manufacturer of atrazine, a widely-used herbici...

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New Report: GMOs Causing Massive Pesticide Pollution

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gentically Engindeered Foods, Pesticides, The Organic Center, Bayer, Dupont, Monsanto, Gmos, Union of Concerned Scientists, Syngenta, Food Safety, Crop Yields, Herbicides, Biotech, Center for Food Safety, Dow, Climate Change, Green News

There is one fact about genetically engineered foods that there is no debate about: no one wakes up in the morning eager to buy gene-altered food. There's good reason for this.

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Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Fat, Weight Loss, Sugar, Pesticides, Fast Food, American Diet, Prevention-Magazine, Steroids, Weight Loss Tips, Herbicides, Fast Food Industry, Weight, 1950s, Papa-Johnss-Pizza, Salt, Wendy's, McDonald's, Marketing, Processed Food, Losing Weight, Food Marketing, 1950s-Housewife, Canned Foods, Growth Hormones, Weight Gain, Blackberry Addiction, Pollan Food, Food Labels, Weight Control, Michael Pollan, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Health, Real Food, Toxic Waste, Consumer Protection, Heart Attack, Healthy Living News

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

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