Pesticide

EPA Decides to Take a New Look at Atrazine

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green


Andrew Wetzler

Today the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will initiate a review of the health and environmental effects of atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States.

Health Care: Scientific or Rational?

Kim Evans | Posted 05.26.2009 | Living


Kim Evans

It's time we started thinking about things differently. If a reliance on proven demonstrated science has gotten us exactly to where we are now, perhaps a shift of focus to rational is the best move we can make.

Agricultural Pesticides a Major Threat to Lions

Panthera | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green


Panthera

Sold legally to farmers for their crops, Furadan is all too accessible to herders, ranchers and pastoralists who use it to poison predators which might kill their livestock.