3 Items 1 Page
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announces a province-wide ban on lawn and garden pesticides, effective next spring.
Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (DDT), a pesticide banned in the 1970s in the United States, is still showing up in penguins in Antarctica. Researchers are surprised that concentration levels found in their fatty tissues have not declined.
The Guardian
The Soil Association has urged the government to ban pesticides linked to honeybee deaths around the world.
The chemicals are widely used in UK agriculture but have been banned as a precaution in four other European countries. Last week the Italian government issued an immediate suspension after it accepted that the pesticides were implicated in killing honeybees, joining France, Germany and Slovenia.