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03/22/2018 / By Vicki Batts

If the EPA allows continued use of dicamba pesticide, it could push monarch butterflies to extinction

Over the course of the next year, more than 60 million acres of the monarch butterfly’s natural habitat are expected to be sprayed with dicamba herbicide. The shocking report from the Center for Biological Diversity, a U.S. environmental group, explains that the widespread use of this toxin spells big trouble for the butterflies. The report […]

09/14/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

New study confirms Bayer’s neonic pesticides are destroying honeybee pollinators… yet the EPA does nothing

A new study affirmed that neonicotinoid pesticides — also known as “neonics” which are chemically related to nicotine — harm both honey bees and wild bees, as reported by BBC. Researchers found that the chemical exposure decreased the survival of honey bee hives during winter, while bumblebees and solitary bees produced fewer queens. The study, […]

08/18/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Even TINY traces of pesticides found to cause infertility in insects, scientists discover

How much of a pesticide do you think it takes to cause harm? For insects, the amount to cause harm is even smaller than scientists could have ever hoped to imagine. New research has highlighted just how dangerous chemical pesticides really are, yet for some reason these literal poisons continue to sit on store shelves […]

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