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Half a billion bees dead as Brazil approves hundreds more pesticides

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 23 Aug 2019

Norsk Hydro accused of Amazon toxic spill, admits ‘clandestine pipeline’

Max Nathanson 27 Feb 2018

Brazil’s fundamental pesticide law under attack

Jenny Gonzales 20 Feb 2018

The ozone layer is still getting thinner, new study finds

Mongabay.com 12 Feb 2018

Impacts of gas drilling on wildlife in Peru and a Goldman Prize winner on mercury contamination

Mike Gaworecki 1 Nov 2017
Muskrat Falls in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, the future site of the hydroelectric dam. The falls will be flooded in 2017. Photo by Amina Schartup.

New dams may expose Canadian seafood consumers to higher levels of neurotoxin

Emily Benson 23 Nov 2015

Preservatives from cosmetics build up in the bodies of far-flung marine mammals

Bethany Augliere 23 Nov 2015

Researchers find ‘hidden tapestry’ of plant chemicals in Amazon forest

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jul 2015

‘Stop using the bloody things’: pesticides linked to bee collapse now blamed for bird declines

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2014

Court orders logging company to clean up pollution disaster in Chile wetlands

Franziska Green 17 Jan 2014

Bee-harming pesticides may impact human nervous system

Jeremy Hance 23 Dec 2013

Saviors or villains: controversy erupts as New Zealand plans to drop poison over Critically Endangered frog habitat

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

Popular pesticides kill frogs outright

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2013

New study adds to evidence that common pesticides decimating bee colonies

Jeremy Hance 24 Oct 2012

Featured video: trailer for Living Downstream

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2012

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