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A crop dusting plane from Blair Air Service dusts cotton crops in Lemoore, Calif. (AP/Gary Kazanjian)
Environment

As Europe Readies Ban on Bee-Killing Pesticides, Attention Turns To Bayer-Funded Studies

New Evidence Shows Bayer, Syngenta Fought Scientists For Data On Bee Study

The pesticide giants also encouraged the academics to study their own research on bees, which showed no harm from their products; only to be rebuffed by researchers.

13 7 月, 2017
Joe Sandler Clarke
13 7 月, 2017
作者 Joe Sandler Clarke
Central Illinois corn and soybean farmer Tim Seifert loads his field planter with Syngenta insecticide for refuge corn while planting DEKALB seed corn, left front, for spring planting .

Bayer and Syngenta repeatedly asked scientists to give them raw data on a major new study which found that neonicotinoid pesticides cause harm to bees before it was published, according to emails obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) rules. Both companies cited their position as co-funders to try to get information from researchers at the

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Study: Scientists That Won’t Link Pesticides To Bee Deaths Are Often Funded By Agrochemical Industry

‘Syngenta and Bayer have a substantial amount of influence in the debate,’ said one neurobiology researcher in response to a Greenpeace analysis of corporate corruption in pesticide research.

14 9 月, 2016
MintPress News Desk
14 9 月, 2016
作者 MintPress News Desk
A bumble bee perches on rape blossoms near Munich, southern Germany. A new study shows that scientists funded by pesticide makers downplayed the role pesticides had in decimating worldwide bee populations.

MINNEAPOLIS --- Pesticide manufacturers have spent millions influencing researchers who are investigating the role of neonicotinoids, a nicotine-like chemical found in many major pesticides, in bee die-offs, according to a recent analysis by Greenpeace. The analysis arrives just weeks after scientists released the results of a long-term study

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That’s Gotta Sting: EPA Approval Of Dow Pesticide Rejected By Federal Appeals Court

The court ruled that “neither logic nor precedent” support the EPA’s decision to approve the Dow pesticide when the agency’s own scientists were calling for more research.

16 9 月, 2015
MintPress News Desk
16 9 月, 2015
作者 MintPress News Desk

SAN FRANCISCO --- A federal appeals court made the unusual decision last week to overturn Environmental Protection Agency approval of a pesticide that many believe is contributing to the widespread death of bees. In their Sept. 10 decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the EPA improperly approved sulfoxaflor, a pesticide

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Ontario First In North America To Curb Bee-Killing Neonicotinoid Pesticides

Farmers and the province have agreed to rules for reduction that begins July 1, while the manufacturer maintains the controversial insecticide is safe.

10 6 月, 2015
MintPress News Desk
10 6 月, 2015
作者 MintPress News Desk

Ontario is moving to take the sting out of pesticides that are killing bees. On July 1, the province will become the first jurisdiction in North America to begin reducing the number of acres planted with neonicotinoid-coated corn and soybean seeds. Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal said by 2017, the new rules should curb the acreage

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EPA Casts Doubt On Efficacy Of Pesticide Linked To Dwindling Bee Populations

“Pesticide sellers have worked hard to convince American farmers that they need to use these toxic seed treatments. Now that we know that these treatments don’t even help farmers, EPA must take action to ban them,” one environmental watchdog tells MintPress.

31 10 月, 2014
Carey L. Biron
31 10 月, 2014
作者 Carey L. Biron
Kansas Daily Life

WASHINGTON --- Environmentalists and those pushing for the weakened use of chemicals in agriculture say they are bolstered by a new study from the U.S. government that strongly questions the efficacy of one of the most common pesticides used on soybeans. The class of pesticides under investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency is known

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科学家发布具有里程碑意义的全球评估,详细说明杀蜂农药的效果

报告的合著者说,新烟碱类物质威胁着“功能性生态系统的核心”。

25 6 月, 2014
Brandon Baker
25 6 月, 2014
作者 Brandon Baker
Kansas Daily Life

ECOWATCH -- The Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA), issued by the Task Force on Systemic Pesticides, documents significant damage to bees and the environment stemming from the wide-spread use of neonicotinoid pesticides (neonics). The report stresses that even at very low levels, neonics and the products resulting from their breakdown in the

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