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Beyond Pesticides 41st National Forum Series—Imperatives for a Sustainable Future. Beyond Pesticides offers the latest information on the hazards of pesticides and least-toxic alternatives, as well as ongoing projects including children's health, pollinators and pesticides, organic food and agriculture, mosquito control and lawn care.
Monoculture Agriculture Leads to Poor Soil Health
Tracy G. Taylor Says: . Thank you for shedding light on the critical issue of soil health and the negative impacts of monoculture agriculture. Your research underscores the importance of embracing diverse cropping systems and sustainable practices to preserve soil quality, protect the environment, and ensure the long-term success of our farms.
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Impacts of Pesticides on Wildlife — Beyond Pesticides
Jun 20, 2024 · The impacts of pesticides on wildlife are extensive, and expose animals in urban, suburban, and rural areas to unnecessary risks. Beyond Pesticides defines "wildlife" as any organism that is not domesticated or used in a lab. This includes, but is not limited to, bees, birds, small mammals, fish, other aquatic organisms, and the biota within soil.
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The Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog features a post each business day on the health and environmental hazards of pesticides, pesticide regulation and policy, pesticide alternatives and cutting-edge science. Daily News is a service of Beyond Pesticides that is intended to keep activists, academicians, policy makers, the health care community ...
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(Beyond Pesticides, July 15, 2020) Evian bottled water is supposed to be so pure that scientists will calibrate their measuring devices with it. But new data from Swiss researchers finds it to be contaminated with a toxic fungicide. “The fact that even the Evian springs in the French Alps, which are hardly affected by humans, contain pesticide residues is …
Bayer/Monsanto in Roundup/Glyphosate Case Stung with Largest …
(Beyond Pesticides, February 23, 2024) The latest string of billion-dollar plaintiff judgments against Bayer/Monsanto, the maker of Roundup™ with active ingredient glyphosate, does not yet signal a capitulation by Bayer or a win for public health or the environment in the United States.
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Beyond Pesticides Makes Science-based Case that It Is Imperative …
Apr 13, 2022 · For Immediate Release. Contact: Jay Feldman, 202-543-5450/ext.15; [email protected] . Beyond Pesticides Makes Science-based Case that It's Imperative to Phase Out Pesticides in a Decade. The organic solutions to problems highlighted in the latest issue of Pesticides and You —based on the importance of healthy ecosystems and public health protection—are within reach, and the ...
Monoculture in Crop Production Contributes to Biodiversity Loss …
(Beyond Pesticides, July 26, 2019) The botanic denizens of wild and unmanaged lands typically comprise many different plant species. This is because nature abhors monocultures — the existence of a single kind of plant growing across some amount of territory. Yet, this is the dominant practice in modern agriculture, and brings with it a plethora of problems. One of them, emerging from an ...