Pesticides

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• The original pesticide

  3 Oct 2014: Country Diary: Lower Benefield, Northamptonshire In the 1970s companies made a good profit by replacing insects with toxic chemicals

• Neonicotinoid ban hit UK farmers hard

  1 Oct 2014: EU ban on pesticide to save bees is making crop vulnerable to a host of pests
  Neonicotinoid ban harming rapeseed crop, farmers say

• Why BeeUrban's hives are creating a buzz across the capital

  16 Sep 2014: With 30 hives spread around London to help fund education for urban apiarists, BeeUrban is helping honeybees recover from conservation problems

• A Buzz in the Meadow review – a passionate plea on behalf of our six-legged friends

  14 Sep 2014: Dave Goulson’s wide-ranging essays about the insect kingdom and the impact of neonicotinoids on the natural world are important and, at times, terrifying, writes Tim Dee

• The great salty mess: pollution threatens US fresh water resources

  21 Aug 2014: Wastewater pollution is contributing to a big salinity problem. Companies are taking notice

• Cotton trade: where does your T-shirt grow?

  9 Aug 2014:

  A year on from the Bangladesh garment factory disaster, initiatives to protect workers have dwindled. Most cotton growers are exposed to deadly pesticides – but Susanna Rustin visits a ground-breaking project in Benin

• Parisian public gardens next to Louvre overrun by 'really big' rats

  28 Jul 2014: Rubbish left by tourists in the Tuileries garden is blamed for the infestation, which has become a problem even in broad daylight

• Our obsession with green lawns drives me nuts, and it's killing the environment

  27 Jul 2014: Syndee Barwick: I'm a lawn rogue – I have one, but I refuse to water, fertilize or treat it with anything. So what if the neighbors hate me? The butterflies don't

• Over 60% of breads sold in the UK contain pesticide residues, tests show

  17 Jul 2014: Traces found in two in every three loaves as experts call for more research into impact on health

• Ban neonicotinoids now – to avert another silent spring

  15 Jul 2014: George Monbiot: This pesticide is destroying life across the natural world: the evidence cannot be denied. Only a global moratorium will stop it

• Neonicotinoids linked to recent fall in farmland bird numbers

  9 Jul 2014: Research demonstrates for the first time the knock-on effects to other species of class of insecticides known to harm bees

• Syngenta withdraws application to use banned pesticide linked to bee harm

  4 Jul 2014: Company had asked for emergency exemption to treat up to a third of all oilseed rape in the UK with neonicotinoid

• Locusts may choose where to invade based on temperature, researchers find

  2 Jul 2014: Discovery could help Australian scientists to develop ways to prevent locust plagues and has implications for climate change research
  

• The week in wildlife – in pictures

  27 Jun 2014: Asiatic cheetah, spotted flycather and polar bears are among the pick of this week's images from the natural world

• Syngenta seeks ‘emergency’ exemption to use banned insecticide on UK crops

  25 Jun 2014: If approved, up to one-third of UK oilseed rape crops could be treated with neonicotinoids despite a European ban

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