PesticidesNews and information about pesticides.What's Killing All Those Long Island Creek Fish (WCBS-TV New York)- September 14, 2008 Some Long Island residents want to know what's killing the fish in a creek near their homes. Dr. Gilbert Goldberg says he's never seen anything like the hundreds of dead fish floating in Hook Creek the last few days. He speculates pesticides sprayed in the North Woodmere area to kill mosquitoes could be responsible.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/pesticides/SIG=11m3s44c6/*http%3A//wcbstv.com/... What's killing all those Long Island creek fish - Newsday- September 14, 2008 NORTH WOODMERE, N.Y. - Some Long Island residents want to know what's killing the fish in a creek near their homes. Dr. Gilbert Goldberg says he's never seen anything like the hundreds of dead fish floating in Hook Creek the last few days. He ...http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--deadfish0914sep14,0,6282489.story Spurious pesticides destroy crops worth Rs 6,000 crore a year (Business Standard India)- September 14, 2008 Spurious and substandard pesticides worth around Rs 1,200 crore are palmed off to unwary farmers every year. This results in a net loss to the farmers of crops worth about Rs 6,000 crore.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/pesticides/SIG=126edk2am/*http%3A//www.busines... Spurious pesticides destroy crops worth Rs 6,000 crore a year - Business Standard- September 14, 2008 These estimates have been compiled by the Agrochemicals Policy Group (APG), a pesticides industry body that aims to promote the safe use of plant protection chemicals. Indeed, a sizeable number of suicides by cotton growers in the Vidarbha region of ...http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=334412 Just to thrust pesticides on farmers - New Nation- September 14, 2008 As a part of a centrally-sponsored scheme non-recommended pesticides were being distributed to farmers in Rajasthan, India. Farmers were being forced to buy unnecessary pesticides as a part of the subsidy package under the National Horticulture ...http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/09/15/news0602.htm Company exec admits rice not inspected (Moldova.org)- September 14, 2008 A Japanese rice-processing company official says his firm examined only a handful of its food for pesticides, selling most without checking for contaminants.The Mikasa Foods financial executive made the admission this weekend after the Fukuoka prefectural government ordered the Osaka company Friday to halt operations at its factory in Kyushu, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.The company had ...http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/pesticides/SIG=11ibualu8/*http%3A//politicom.m... Dogs infested with ticks, not chiggers - San Francisco Gate- September 13, 2008 Saturday, September 13, 2008 Do you have any suggestions on how to eradicate them or alleviate the itching on the pups I got a few spots myself a few weeks ago - we just got back from a 10-day trip and it seems they have multiplied on the poor dogs ...http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/13/HOBL12JDVV.DTL Limbless boy's mom testifies on pesticides - Political Gateway- September 12, 2008 RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A former farm worker says she was sprayed with pesticide frequently on a North Carolina tomato farm while she was pregnant with a child born with no limbs. Francisca Herrera was a witness Wednesday at a hearing before ...http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/171261 Environmental Pollution - Chicago Tribune- September 12, 2008 Environmental pollution is contamination of air, water and land from man-made waste. Pollution leads to depletion of the ozone layer, global warming and climate change. Air pollution is the release of chemicals and particles into the atmosphere ...http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/environmental-issues/environmental-pollution/06005000.... Ban pesticides, go organic - Visayan Daily Star- September 9, 2008 Ban pesticides, go organicVisayan Daily Star, Philippines - 1 hour agoBY CARLA GOMEZ The president of the Pesticide Action Network Philippines yesterday lobbied for a ban on the use of pesticides, including the deadly ...http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=pesticides&ie=ISO-8859-1 |