Whoopsie! It turns out that pesticides used on an industrial scale may not be as harmless as scientists just assumed they were, which, totally, why would you even test that? BOOORRRRING. It’s like I always say: If I find something laying in the street and rubbing it directly into my open eyes doesn’t immediately cause…
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Karen Pence, wife and “mother” to Vice President Mike Pence, unveiled a beehive today at the Naval Observatory. That’s nice—bees are good, even better than towel charms. I hope they don’t die. Does Scott Pruitt know about this?
Chlorpyrifos is a neurotoxic pesticide most commonly used in California’s Central Valley for crops like almonds, walnuts, oranges, grapes, and broccoli. It was banned for residential use in 2000 and in 2015, under President Barack Obama, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a ban for use of the pesticide in…
It seems like there aren’t many animals that the Trump administration, in blissful partnership with Republicans in Congress, is interested in keeping around. (Weird that the lump who spawned these guys would lack appropriate respect for the natural world!) Republicans in Congress have been trying to gut the popular…
It was a bad week in a very bad year for U.S. bees and their keepers, who lost 44 percent of their total colonies from April 2015 to March 2016—a 3.5 percent increase from the previous year. And as aerial pesticides—the stuff that’s at least partially responsible for killing the bees—have been deployed in certain…
We're living in the age of the obesity epidemic — not mainly because we're gluttons who don't exercise and subsist on McDonald's — but because of factors out of our control. These factors have mostly to do with what goes into our food and how it's marketed to us.
What seems like the least controversial move Michelle Obama could possibly make — planting a garden on the White House lawn — has actually generated its fair share of criticism.
New research shows that when mothers are exposed to some pesticides and chemicals during pregnancy, male offspring are born with smaller penises and feminized genitals. Chemicals used in some food wrapping, cosmetics, baby powders and flame retardants have been found to interfere with male hormones in vertebrate…
