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Dispersing Ain't Cleaning: Ask Congress to Investigate Oil Spill-Dispersing Chemicals

Nancy Roberts - Care2 - May 16-2010 As of Friday, May 14, 517,000 gallons of...

New Research Reveals Hurricane Katrina's Impact on Ecological and Human Health

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ScienceDaily (May 15, 2010) Scientists studying the...

Ecosystem in Peril after Gulf Oil Spill

By Matthew Cardinale - IPS ATLANTA, Georgia, May 14, 2010 (IPS) - With engineers giving a...

Pests Bite Back at Genetically Modified Cotton

14 May 2010 - Bob Holmes, consultant -NewScientist Wipe one pest out and...

What If BP Were A Human Being?

Wed, 05/05/2010 — Bruce A. Dixon - Black Agenda Report What if BP, the principal corporate...

Are Pesticide Regulators on theTake?

Canadian Authorities Refuse to Protect Precious Pollinators From Known Toxins. Is Something Crooked Going on Here? by Larry Powell Nothing smacks of collusion between government officials and the agro-chemical industry, quite like the current crisis facing the world’s pollinators. For years, scientific research teams both far and near, have been documenting dwindling numbers, even extinctions, of several populations of pollinators like honey bees and bumble bees. Scores of reputable groups, including The Canadian Pollination Institute (CANPOLIN) , the Xerces Society and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the ‘States, are all sounding the same alarm; “The diversity and abundance of insect pollinators are in a global state of decline. This decline represents a serious threat to the integrity of natural ecosystems and the production of many crops.” Xerces has been devoted to preser