• Mother and Children, Hurt By Widely Used Lawn Care Pesticides, Issue Holiday Wish to Stop the Poisoning. This is a story of a trusting consumer, Brenda Jones, who explains that she hired a lawn care service, TRUGREEN ChemLawn, only to find that the pesticides being used were poisonous...Continue

• Lawn Pesticide Poisoning:
A Timeline of Ms Jones's Story...Continue

• Professor Dominique Belpomme, a medical oncologist from the University of Paris, has new research showing that environmental exposures to pesticides and other contaminants are now more significant as a cause of cancer ...Continue

• A potentially harmful smog can form inside homes through reactions between air-fresheners and ozone, say researchers at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The reactions generate formaldehyde, classed as a probable carcinogen...Continue

Many U.S. residents carry toxic pesticides in their bodies above government assessed “acceptable” levels. Chemical Trespass: makes public for the first time an analysis of pesticide-related data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...Continue

• Fifteen high-school students in Bronx, NY were treated on April 20 after exposure to a cloud of herbicide that parks employees were spraying on grass nearby, according to New York Newsday. Fire department officials say the pesticide drifted through a window into a room the students were occupying. Most of the students were treated on the scene, however one...Continue

• Controlling pests Without the use of Pesticides...Continue

• The Observer suggested a possible link between the exposure of mothers during pregnancy to the pesticide Benlate (active ingredient benomyl) manufactured by DuPont and the development of microphthalmia and anophthalmia, conditions where children are born either with poorly developed eyes or without eyes...Continue

• Recent independent research indicates that glyphosate i.e. Roundup may not be as safe as previously thought...Continue

Pesticide residues were detected in 49 of the apple samples tested. In one sample, a residue of the carcinogenic pesticide, captan, was illegally high. According to the official analysis, it was...Continue

• A recent case-controlled study (2003) by Greenlee et al published in Epidemiology showed that infertile women who live near U.S. farmlands were 27 times more likely to have mixed or applied herbicides and 3.3 times more likely to have used fungicides within two years of conceiving than women who were fertile...Continue

• Contaminated without Consent: Why our exposure to chemicals in air, food and water violates human rights...Continue

• A subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co. will pay a $2 million fine for making illegal safety claims in advertising of its pesticides, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Monday...Continue

• An ambitious approach in tackling pesticide hazards is needed...Continue

• While deaths and illness from pesticides remain at an all-time high, the urgency of taking action has been delayed over different interpretations on patents and data protection...Continue

• A new report on pesticide problems and regulatory concerns in Costa Rica, Tanzania and Vietnam recommends steps towards improved control and reduction of pesticide use...Continue

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman announced on October 31 that the arsenic standard in drinking water will be 10 parts per billion (ppb). "Throughout this process, I have made it clear that EPA intends to strengthen the standard for arsenic by...Continue

• Four university scientists, three from the U.S. and one from Scotland, experienced a backlash, either personally or professionally, after their research showed results that could harm the well-invested biotechnology industry...Continue

• Farmworker groups filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Environmental Protection Agency for approving the reregistration of two organophosphate pesticides, azinphos-methyl (AZM) and phosmet, that they say continue to poison workers, their children, communities and the environment...Continue

• Conservation and pesticide-watchdog groups filed a lawsuit on January 15 to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from giving illegal special access to a group of chemical corporations. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and other sources reveal that the corporate insider group has met regularly with EPA officials in secret and has urged EPA to...Continue

• Scientists at Michigan State University have found an elusive microbe whose world-class pickiness is a key to one of the most nagging concerns in the cleanup of a common type of environmental toxin...Continue

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• Elevated Cancer In Dogs Exposed To Lawn Chemicals, American Veterinary Medical Association Warns...Continue

Paraquat, the most deadly weed killer...Continue

• Stealth Poisons - New disclosures in a report from Pesticide Action Network UK reveal pesticides everywhere. For the first time, a year’s official reports of pesticides in our food, water, and the environment have been brought together...Continue

• Study Finds Over One-Quarter of U.S. School Districts Adopt Plans to Restrict Children's Exposure to Pesticides...Continue

99% of GM crops across the world are designed either to tolerate or to produce pesticides. Seventy five per cent tolerate pesticides, mostly Roundup. For example, 90% of transgenic soya is designed to tolerate Roundup...Continue

• Hospitals have a special obligation to demonstrate leadership in instituting effective and safer pest management in keeping with the medical profession's basic tenet of "first, do no harm...Continue

• The national environmental group Beyond Pesticides today asked major retailers to immediately pull off their store shelves tick and flea repellents identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as deadly. Last month, EPA struck a deal with Hartz Mountain Corporation to stop shipping and re-label two repellent products for which EPA has received thousands of reports detailing illness and death in kittens and cats...Continue

• Ethyl carbamate is used as an intermediate in the synthesis of a number of chemicals. Acute (short-term) exposure of humans to high levels of ethyl carbamate may result in injury to the kidneys and liver and induce vomiting, coma, or hemorrhages...Continue

• Study Published Today in Environmental Health Perspectives Finds Dramatically Lower Sperm Concentration, Motility in Men Living in Semi-Rural, Agricultural Areas...Continue

• Prince Edward Island officials are investigating whether the province's potato industry is killing its fish...Continue

• Every parent has gained a right to know of pesticide application to which their children may be exposed if they are enrolled in the Los Angeles Unified School District...Continue

• Proposed changes in Farm Bill conservation program could hurt farmers, environmental cleanup...Continue

• Belgium said on Tuesday it had found the same cancer-causing chemicals in pig feed that it had found in chicken feed made by a local compounder, raising fears of another dioxin-type scandal...Continue

• Will soldiers someday wear vests containing microbes that signal contact with biological weapons? Could un-manned submarines or underwater sensing devices run on microbe-power?...Continue

• Deep below the surface of the Beverhead Mountains of Idaho, a research team led by Derek Lovley, head of the microbiology department at the University of Massachusetts, and Francis H. Chappelle of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has found an unusual community of microoganisms that may hold the key to understanding how life could survive on Mars...Continue

• For centuries, scientists have wondered why gold is found in two forms – as a solid in deposits close to the Earth’s crust, and in solution, often far removed from gold-ore deposits. A fairly simple lab experiment conducted at the University of Massachusetts may lead to an understanding of how the precious metal came to be available...Continue

• "Confront is totally contradictory to all of our goals for recycling, resource conservation and sustainability," said...Continue

• Traces of a herbicide toxic to garden vegetables has been found in compost in three states, a discovery that worried the lawn waste recycling industry...Continue

• "Drought is a chronic concern in Canada, but rarely has it been as serious or extensive as in 2001," said the report of the Top 10 Canadian weather stories...Continue

• Beat the clock: Plants and animals adapt to winter...Continue

• Global warming is arguably the biggest environmental problem that we face in the 21st century...Continue

• With the assistance of a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management (DEM), a multidisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Massachusetts is testing ways to use common pond plants to stabilize and decontaminate seriously polluted areas of the historic Blackstone River Watershed. Extending from south central Massachusetts to Pawtucket, R.I...Continue

• Human activity has affected Earth's surface temperature during the last 130 years, according to a study published this month by the Journal of Geophysical Research. Dr. Robert K. Kaufmann of Boston University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and Dr. David I. Stern of the Australian National University's Centre for Resource and Environmental Study...Continue

• Cattle graze on freshly spread sewage sludge
"Its only a guideline" says the MOE...Continue