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.

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By 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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Millions Of Honeybees Dead In South Carolina Town After Zika Pesticide Spraying

‘I just couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that we spray poison from the sky,’ one beekeeper said.

Nika Knight
By Nika Knight
A single local beekeeper lost 46 hives, or 2.5 million bees. (Photo: Flowertown Bee Farm and Supplies/Facebook)

Millions of honeybees are dead in Dorchester County, South Carolina, as a result of spraying the area with the controversial pesticide naled on Sunday afternoon, which local officials did in an effort to combat Zika-spreading mosquitoes. "The pattern [of death] matched acute pesticide poisoning," the Washington Post reports. [...] if that much

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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.

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By 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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Wall Street Wins, Farmers And Consumers Lose In Monsanto-Syngenta Merger

Syngenta rejected the first merger offer by Monsanto, but both sides are preparing for further discussions and future offers that could take the term “agribusiness giant” to dangerous new levels.

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A protester wearing a protective suit and mask holds up a sign toward passing cars that reads in Portuguese "A better world according to Monsanto is a world with more cancer" in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, May 25, 2013. (AP/Nelson Antoine) MINNEAPOLIS --- Multinational seed and pesticide business Monsanto has approached Syngenta, another

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USDA’s Greenlighting Of ‘Agent Orange’ Crops Sparks Condemnation

Following widespread outcry, Dow’s new genetically engineered corn and soybeans get approval.

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's decision this week to approve two new genetically engineered crops is being denounced by watchdog groups as a false solution to herbicide-resistant weeds and a move that threatens human and environment safety alike. The crops are Dow AgroSciences' Enlist corn and soybeans, engineered to be resistant to its

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Sowing And Spraying Trouble In Paradise: How GMOs Are Destroying Kauai

Big Agriculture is wearing out its welcome on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, which is being used a major testing ground for genetically modified seeds and pesticides.

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By Katie Rucke
Food and Farm Seed Farming

Back in 1970, Joni Mitchell tried to warn us about what would happen to “paradise” if corporate interests were put ahead of the environment and people’s health. She pleaded with farmers to “put away that DDT now.” “Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please,” she sang. But as residents of the Hawaiian island of

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