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On July 22, 2022, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) added the migratory monarch butterfly to its “red list” of threatened species and categorized it as “endangered” — two steps from extinction. Known for its spectacular annual journey of up to 3,000 miles across the Americas, the monarchs are threatened by habitat …
August 10, 2022 by Nick Meyer and GMO/Toxin Free USA Staff The health effects of glyphosate, the infamous and ubiquitous chemical in Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, are still being brought to light, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the damage Monsanto and Bayer’s creations have caused. Over 50 years later …
…taking pesticide drift to a new level
July 29, 2022 by Nick Meyer The broad-spectrum herbicide dicamba was first approved for use in the United States in 1962, and first registered in 1967 under brand names including Dianat, Banvel, Diablo, Oracle and Vanquish. As you might imagine based on the aforementioned names and the history of Monsanto, which developed the herbicide, dicamba …
Despite ongoing opposition to GMO wheat, the FDA approved the first variety, a glufosinate-tolerant GMO wheat. As with all GMOs, there have been no independent, long-term safety studies, no animal feeding studies. The FDA based its approval on safety assurances from the company that created and profits from the GMO wheat, Bioceres in Argentina. Now …
Satellite photo of an algal bloom in western Lake Erie, July 28, 2015. NASA Earth Observatory Donald Boesch, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Donald Scavia, University of Michigan Midsummer is the time for forecasts of the size of this year’s “dead zones” and algal blooms in major lakes and bays. Will the …
Might want to switch your plant-based milk and get involved.
Bee Aware About Almonds Most people love the crunchy flavor of almonds and we have found ways to work them into every meal of the day. We eat them in breakfast cereals, sprinkled over ice cream, in nut milk as a dairy alternative, in marzipan, nougat, pastries, cookies, cakes, and other sweets and desserts. Almonds …
Article Updated on June 30, 2022 U.S. Supreme Court Delivers Blow to Bayer-Monsanto In the span of one week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected two appeals by Bayer-Monsanto to overturn verdicts of previously decided Roundup-cancer lawsuits. On Tuesday, June 21, 2022, the Supreme Court rejected Bayer’s appeal to overturn the verdict of Edwin Hardeman v. …
Don’t let dicamba become the next glyphosate. The damage continues to mount, the damning cancer studies have just begun. More dicamba devastation is on the horizon. Thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) inaction, use of this highly toxic, volatile, and drift-prone herbicide on GMO cotton and soy continues to increase. In 2016, the EPA …
A ladybug crawls on a paloverde flower in Joshua Tree National Park, California. Hannah Schwalbe, NPS/Flickr Bradley J. Cardinale, Penn State As spring phases into summer in North America, with trees flowering and birds migrating, nature seems abundant. In fact, however, the Earth is losing animals, birds, reptiles and other living things so fast that …
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