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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Midwestern Waters Are Full of Bee-Killing Pesticides | Mother Jones
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:17:49 -0400

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/07/federal-agency-finds-neonic-pesticides-midwestern-water

Midwestern Waters Are Full of Bee-Killing Pesticides
—By Tom Philpott
| Tue Jul. 29, 2014 6:00 AM EDT

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/07/federal-agency-finds-neonic-pesticides-midwestern-water

A while back, I wrote about how the US Environmental Protection Agency has
been conducting a slow-motion reassessment of a widely used class of
insecticides, even as evidence mounts that it's harming key ecosystem
players from pollinating bees to birds. Since then, another federal entity
with an interest in the environment, the US Geological Survey, has released
a pretty damning study of the pesticide class, known as neonicitinoids.

For the paper (press release; abstract) published last week in the
peer-reviewed journal Environmental Pollution, USGS researchers took 79
water samples in nine rivers and streams over the 2013 growing season in
Iowa, a state whose vast acreage of farmland is largely devoted to
neonic-treated corn and soybeans. Neonics showed up in all of the sites,
and proved to be "both mobile and persistent in the environment."



  • [permaculture] Midwestern Waters Are Full of Bee-Killing Pesticides | Mother Jones, Lawrence London, 07/29/2014

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