• Environmental Impacts
• Farmworker Exposure
• Health Impacts
• Pollinator Health
• Yield and Soil Quality

Environmental Impacts

• In the News post on 2017 E & E News article about persistent environmental impacts of DDT
• 2015 paper in PeerJ  “Significance and value of non-traded ecosystem services on farmland”
• Pesticides All Too Common in Streams and Groundwater, post about USGS pesticide water pollution research
• 2009 article in Pesticides News, “Birds and pesticides: is the threat of a silent spring really behind us?”
• Cranfeld University in the UK published a report in 2009 about the greenhouse gas emissions from pesticide manufacturing

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• Environmental Impacts
• Natural Resources

Farmworker Exposure

• Children of Farmworkers in North Carolina Heavily Exposed to Pesticides

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• Farmworkers

Health Impacts

• 2017 Journal of Epidemiology and Environmental Health“Is it time to reassess current safety standards for glyphosate-based herbicides?” paper:
• Post on 2017 article in Environmental Health Perspectives  on the human health effects of neonicotinoid insecticide
• Dr. Benbrook blog post from February 2017, Little Known About Those Insecticides in Me and You
• Common Insecticide Causes Significant Neurological Deficits in Children
• Key Insecticides Disrupt Brain Development at Very Low Doses
• Several documents related to cutting-edge research on low-dose glyphosate causing non-alcoholic liver disease in rats including pdf of the full paper, the authors’ two-page summary, and this synopsis for the public created by GM Watch.
• 2016 Hot Science post examines the health and economic impacts of pesticide use, “Another Study Highlights Huge Economic Impact of Pesticide Use and Exposures
• Scientists Find Link Between Pesticide Exposures During Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes
• Organic Diet Improves Indicators of Health in a Novel European Experiment
• Report analyzing the carcinogenic potential of glyphosate from the EPA in 2016
• Buddhini Samarasinghe’s excellent informational article “Hallmarks of Cancer” was published in “Scientific American” in 2013-2014 and explains how cancer develops
• 2012 Paper in Environmental Health Perspectives,  “A Strategy for Comparing the Contributions of Environmental Chemicals and Other Risk Factors to Neurodevelopment of Children”

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•  GE Impacts on Human Health and Pesticide Use
• Human Health
• Pesticide Impacts

Pollinator Health

• “Pollinators in Peril,” Acres U.S.A. interview with international bee campaigner Graham White on pesticide impacts, 2015
• Recommended: Neonicotinoid review paper, 2015
• Seminal 2016 legal action against Bayer, Bayer Reaches Deal with Massachusetts Attorney General Over Allegations of Misleading Consumers about Pesticide Risks
• 2016, “Ten policies for pollinators: What governments can do to safeguard pollination services,” in Science
• Nature: Scientific Reports article from 2016, “Neonicotinoid-contaminated pollinator strips adjacent to cropland reduce honey bee nutritional status”
• 2015 article in Nature Communications,  “Non-cultivated plants present a season-long route of pesticide exposure for honey bees.”
• “Effects of field-realistic doses of glyphosate on honeybee appetitive behaviour,” Journal of Experimental Biology, 2014
• Important paper by John Pleasants and Karen Oberhauser documents declines in monarch butterfly populations due to milkweed loss from pesticide use, 2012
• See the section on pollinators in this 2009 article by Dr. Benbrook in Pesticides News

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• Bees

Yield and Soil Quality

• Scientists Estimate That Pesticides are Reducing Crop Yields by ONE-THIRD Through Impaired Nitrogen Fixation
• Soil Quality from Long-term Organic Management Nearly Doubles Flavonoids in Organic Tomatoes

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• Soil Quality
• Yield