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  • Thumbnail for Environmental impact of pesticides
    environment. The negative effects of pesticides are not just in the area of application. Runoff and pesticide drift can carry pesticides into distant aquatic environments...
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    table). The most common of these are herbicides, which account for approximately 50% of all pesticide use globally. Most pesticides are used as plant protection...
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    Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects. They include ovicides and larvicides used against insect eggs and larvae, respectively. Acaricides, which...
    44 KB (4,459 words) - 12:47, 21 May 2024
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    Famine (redirect from Causes of famines)
    these new developments may contribute to the decline of arable land (e.g. persistence of pesticides leading to soil contamination, salt accumulation due...
    185 KB (20,401 words) - 20:09, 5 June 2024
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    been called a major breakthrough in pesticides. The carbamates do not have the persistence of chlorinated pesticides. Although toxic to insects, carbaryl...
    11 KB (814 words) - 05:48, 21 April 2024
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    G, Sherma J (2013). Synthetic Pyrethroids and Other Pesticides: Analytical Methods for Pesticides and Plant Growth Regulators. Academic Press. p. 104...
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    impact of pesticides Health effects of pesticides Integrated pest management Monsanto legal cases Pesticide regulation in the United States Regulation of pesticides...
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  • Integrated Assessment of the impact of Systemic Pesticides on biodiversity and ecosystems (WIA)". The Task Force on Systemic Pesticides. 10 October 2014....
    85 KB (8,442 words) - 06:12, 28 May 2024
  • along with other B. thuringiensis products, is one of the most widely used biological pesticides due to its high specificity; it is effective against...
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    higher levels in a food chain. This increase can occur as a result of: Persistence – where the substance cannot be broken down by environmental processes...
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    Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001. Most POPs are pesticides or insecticides, and some are also solvents, pharmaceuticals, and industrial...
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    Pesticides Containing Neonicotinoids Registration Change". "Massachusetts regulators to restrict consumer use of bee-toxic neonicotinoid pesticides"...
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    Mader, Eric, and Nancy Lee Adamson. "Organic-Approved Pesticides."Organic-Approved Pesticides (n.d.): n. pag. The Xerxes Society. The Xerces Society...
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    European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluded that most uses of neonicotinoid pesticides such as clothianidin represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees...
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  • development in the 1940s, multiple chemical pesticides with different uses and modes of action have been employed. Pesticides are applied over large areas in agriculture...
    19 KB (2,429 words) - 05:46, 27 December 2023
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    Acephate (category Pesticides)
    insecticide of moderate persistence with residual systemic activity of about 10–15 days at the recommended use rate. It is used primarily for control of aphids...
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    have adopted standards that reduce usage of chemicals with extended environmental persistence, the pesticides are still powerful and dangerous immediately...
    8 KB (1,028 words) - 22:30, 23 February 2024
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    two pesticides, rotenone or paraquat, developed Parkinson's disease 2.5 times more often than non-users. In addition, people exposed to pesticides in the...
    45 KB (4,614 words) - 18:06, 8 June 2024
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    (September 1991). "Persistence of pesticide residues in mineral and organic soils in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia". Journal of Agricultural and...
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    nanograms per liter were detected. Levels of bromoxynil were consistently lower than of several other pesticides tested, and it was observed to undergo greater...
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