1. Event: Farm Pesticides Increase Brain Tumors
Pesticides Build Brain Tumors - Free Market News Network. In a study of nearly 700 adults with or without brain tumors, French researchers found that agricultural workers with the highest level of exposure to pesticides were twice as likely to be diagnosed with brain cancer as those with no occupational pesticide exposure. Pesticides Build Brain Tumors. Thursday, June 14, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com Agricultural workers with extensive exposure to pesticides may have an elevated risk of brain...
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2. Event: Traps are ineffective in controlling Japanese beetles
Several chemical pesticides can be used to control the insects. Several chemical pesticides, like those containing imidacloprid, carbaryl and trichlorfon, are labeled for use on home lawns. The adult beetles feed heavily on the fruit and foliage of more than 275 kinds of trees, shrubs, flowers and other plants. They are related to June beetles, and they're brilliant, metallic-green insects with coppery brown forewings. Having a drought during the egg-laying and larval hatching periods can...
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3. Event: Links Between Chemicals and Breast Cancer
According to epidemiologist Devra Lee Davis of the University of Pittsburgh s Graduate School of Public Health and one of the lead researchers on the new study, the more hormones cycling through a woman s body during her lifetime, the more likely she is to develop breast cancer. The study identified 216 man-made chemicals including those found in everyday products like pesticides, cosmetics, dyes, drugs and gasoline (and diesel exhaust) that have been shown to cause breast cancer in...
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4. Event: Indonesia Prepares Law to Prohibit the Use of Chemicals As Weapons
The draft law would consist of seven chapters and 29 articles and regulate the utilization and prohibition of the shipment of chemicals, Fahmi said after a meeting with the House of Representatives' special committee on the draft law on utilization of chemicals. Indonesia Prepares Law to Prohibit the Use of Chemicals As Weapons - Science - RedOrbit. The draft law would consist of seven chapters and 29 articles and regulate the utilization and prohibition of the shipment of chemicals, Fahmi...
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5. Event: Living history
These are the people who have seen it all--flooding, drought, economic depression, war, and industrial revolution. Fertilizer and biotechnology have made what was once impossible, possible. Where they used to have to make breeding decisions based only on a scale and visual appraisal, they can now add EPDs and ultrasound to their toolbox. In their minds are records of history that only too well tell the story of agriculture. Some of my favorite stories we write at the Journal are the ones...
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6. Event: Researchers focus on pesticides, pathogen in study of dying bees
ARMAS, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press 06/15/2007 Email to a friendPrinter-friendly Scientists investigating a mysterious ailment that killed many of the nation's honeybees are concentrating on pesticides and a new pathogen as possible culprits, and some beekeepers are already trying to keep their colonies away from pesticide-exposed fields. ARMAS, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press 06/15/2007 Email to a friendPrinter-friendly Scientists investigating a mysterious...
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