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Environmental Impacts

Neonic Insecticides and Metabolites ID’d in IA Tap Water, May Become More Toxic from Water Purification Process

Posted on February 21, 2019 in Environmental Impacts, Hot Science, Pesticides | 354 Views | Leave a response
Two years ago in 2017, scientists with the USGS and the University of Iowa first reported that neonicotinoid insecticides were “persistent” in drinking water samples collected at the University’s Iowa City campus during a seven week period after the corn planting season (May-July). The reason why was no mystery — at least 80% of the GMO […]

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“Intensive Agriculture” is the Root Cause of Worldwide Declines in Insect Populations, New Global Analysis Shows

Posted on February 13, 2019 in Animals, Environmental Impacts, Hot Science, Pesticides | 2,079 Views | Leave a response
A duo of research scientists from Australian universities have conducted an extensive review of global data on insect populations, with stark results. Their analysis of 73 historical reports was published this month in the journal Biological Conservation.  It reveals “dramatic rates of decline that may lead to the extinction of 40% of the world’s insect species over the […]

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A Trio of New Dicamba Stories — Our Take on the Ongoing Drift Crisis

Posted on February 8, 2019 in Environmental Impacts, Hygeia's Blog, Pesticides | 365 Views | Leave a response
Three new Xtend-dicamba related items have been posted recently on Hygeia. Collectively they frame what is to come as farmers and herbicide applicators begin the 2019 herbicide spray season. In a fact-filled piece in DTN, Emily Unglesbee traces the march of glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth across the southeast, and then to the north and west.  This […]

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Dicamba-Resistant Xtend Soybean Sales Continue to Rise as Farmers Fear Drifting Dicamba is Coming for Their Crops

Posted on February 7, 2019 in Environmental Impacts, In The News, Pesticides | 486 Views | Leave a response
Dan Charles, NPR’s widely respected food and agriculture correspondent, has written extensively about the dicamba drift crisis over the past couple of years (here are just a few of his pieces that were posted to the Managing Weeds for Healthy Kids site). In his latest NPR piece entitled “Is Fear Driving Sales Of Monsanto’s Dicamba-Proof Soybeans?,” he […]

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Comments Pour in on Arkansas’ New Dicamba Regulations

Posted on February 6, 2019 in Environmental Impacts, In The News, Pesticides | 170 Views | Leave a response
In just a couple more months, Arkansas farmers will be planting soybeans in their fields again. So, that means another contentious round of meetings and hearings so the Arkansas Plant Board can decide how and when soybean farmers will be able to spray dicamba on their fields. The dicamba drift disaster of the last couple […]

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DTN and “The Progressive Farmer” Take a Closer Look at Monster Palmer Amaranth

Posted on February 1, 2019 in Environmental Impacts, In The News, Pesticides | 264 Views | Leave a response
DTN staff reporter Emily Unglesbee has ably covered the dicamba-drift crisis over the past couple of years.  Her latest is a detailed, three-part series on Palmer amaranth, “possibly the most aggressive weed American farmers have ever faced” (Unglesbee, 2019a). Palmer amaranth is so scary because of its “spectacular reproductive abilities” and it’s extreme adaptability. This […]

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Glyphosate is Increasing Phosphorous Levels in Agricultural Watersheds — An “Overlooked Impact” of Rising Herbicide Use

Posted on January 31, 2019 in Environmental Impacts, Hot Science, Pesticides | 566 Views | Leave a response
Phosphorous is a key nutrient promoting plant growth, and a standard ingredient in many fertilizer blends.  But if too much phosphorous ends up in the region’s watershed, it can wreck havoc on wetlands, streams, and lakes,  causing harmful algae blooms (like the extreme cyanobacteria algae blooms in Lake Erie last year) and depletion of dissolved […]

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Two New Reports Tackle Global Food Sustainability

Posted on January 26, 2019 in Environmental Impacts, Food Security, In The News, Nutrition | 811 Views | Leave a response
Two new publications were released in the last week that contribute much new food for thought in the global discussion around the sustainability of the Earth’s food systems. First off, on January 16th the Lancet published a special feature called “Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems.”  As Reuters reports, […]

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Science Points to “New” Way to Combat Climate Change

Posted on December 15, 2018 in Environmental Impacts, In The News | 296 Views | Leave a response
It’s not just leaves that have been falling this season, the past months have seen several intense climate change reports drop on us too.  First up was the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an exhaustive report on what it will take to keep warming under a critical limit, “Global Warming of 1.5° C.”  […]

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Guest Blog: Longtime Weed Scientist Ford Baldwin Weighs in on Dicamba Regulation in Arkansas

Posted on December 6, 2018 in Environmental Impacts, Hygeia's Blog, Pesticides | 629 Views | Leave a response
Note to Hygeia Readers — Ford Baldwin is a weed scientist that has worked to promote integrated weed management systems in Arkansas over a long career.  In fact, his contribution was recognized this year when he was inducted into the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame. He has been deeply involved since 2016 in trying to […]

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