The Real News Network They include known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors and other toxins such as Alachlor, Acetochlor, Atrazine , Clopyralid, Dicamba and Thiodicarb. Not only does Monsanto never take responsibility for the impact of its poisonous chemicals, but they do ... and more »
Targeted News Service (subscription) Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has introduced legislation (H.R. 2044) to "prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine ." The bill was introduced on May 17 and has five co-sponsors. Co-sponsors include Reps. and more »
Yankton Daily Press Where would our world food supply be without pesticides ? In many ways, pest-killing chemicals are a miracle for modern agriculture. They, along with synthetic fertilizer, genetic hybridization, and irrigation, have created crop yields high enough to ...
Washington Post (blog) After studying more than 200 factors that led to infection, two stood out, a synopsis of the report said, an herbicide called atrazine and phosphate, a fertilizer. Whatever the reason, the declines have led at least one activist group to call for an ... and more »
Twin Cities Daily Planet (blog) Most of them were common insecticides and herbicides, including atrazine , used in agriculture and around the home. Penn State researchers are particularly concerned that when the pesticides combine in a hive, they can have a synergistic effect hundreds ... and more »
Narromine News “Twenty milimetres of rainfall was enough to wash 75 to 88 per cent of the herbicides from sorghum residue, but there was less metolachlor washed off compared to pyroxasulfone and atrazine. “Sixty five to 70 per cent of the applied metolachlor reaches ...
