Native American artifacts pose pesticide exposure risk
...s technology evolved, curators began using organic pesticides like DDT. Over the years, some pieces may have bee... the objects may be contaminated with a variety of pesticides used in the museum over the years. A curator at the Hoopa Tribal Museum arranged for chemical analys...Study of insecticide neurotoxicity yields clues to onset of Parkinson's Disease
...e. The slow response to high levels of exposure to pesticides is caused, Bloomquist thinks, by the system being overloaded and only after a period of a few weeks is it capable of responding to the insult in the same way as low doses. In some individuals, dopamine-producing neurons may be challenged by genetic f...Termites repelled by catnip oil
...p oil as a possible replacement for the more toxic pesticides presently used to control termites. Probably the most common termite control method is treating the soil next to wood structures with chemical compounds: some of the active ingredients of traditional termiticides, such as chlordane and chlorpyrifos, ...Catnip stops termites dead in their tracks
... the oil might provide a less toxic alternative to pesticides used today. Termites cause damages estimated at more than $1 billion annually in the United States. In New Orleans, the aggressive Formosan subterranean termite now found in at least 11 states is believed to infest about 30 percent of the area's li...Fruit consumption related to increased risk of Parkinson's?
...s increased risk may be due to plant borne toxins, pesticides or herbicides, rather than the fruit itself," notes study author Andrew Grandinetti, PhD, of the Pacific Biomedical Research Center, University of Hawaii and Manoa. "High fruit intake is still an important protective factor against many chronic disea...Genetic risk factor for Parkinson disease discovered
...om excess oxygen damage, combined with exposure to pesticides such as rotenone, could act synergistically to cause Parkinson's disease. This is the first study to give substance to the idea." Additional studies will be needed to further examine the link between variant J and Parkinson's disease, said Vance. Giv...Arsenic in New England wells more widespread than thought
... the region. Manufacturing and many years of using pesticides and treated lumber may have also contributed to increased arsenic levels, but the extent of their contribution is unclear, Ayotte says. While the study provides a clearer picture of arsenic distributions in the region, it has several caveats. Althou...Critical early-defense trigger in plants found
...ase resistance in crop plants without resorting to pesticides or the introduction of non-plant genes. The resea... on the use of chemical-based fungicides and other pesticides to protect crops against microbial pathogens and insects," says Klessig. "An alternative strategy to...ACS announces awards for environmentally conscious business innovation
.... The nontoxic product is replacing some synthetic pesticides that have been shown to be harmful to the environment and people. Studies show other fungicides are toxic to frogs and earthworms and, when they leach into the ocean, to shrimp and other forms of life. Since Serenade® consists of natural products...US bald eagle counts continue to climb slowly
...72," Steenhof explained. "Declines associated with pesticides during the 1950s may have been more severe in the Northeast than in other parts of the country and may be the reason counts are increasing more there than elsewhere in the country." About two-thirds of the eagles observed on surveys were mature adult......erns about the environmental and economic costs of pesticides and the increased interest in the potential ecosystem services that weed diversity within row crops may provide, Gross will share the results of 15 year's worth of study on the impacts of various agricultural management strategies. Gross' presentati...Search beneath lawns provides insight into backyard biodiversity
...mowed, but with no applications of fertilizers and pesticides and high-maintenance lawns mowed and treated with applications of fertilizers and pesticides from a lawn care company. For comparison to the lawns, he sampled arthropods form unmowed fields in...Fe-TAML(R) activators developed at Carnegie Mellon break down toxic pesticides
...rus compounds, a widely used class of agricultural pesticides associated with profound toxicity. The results of...ds after a crop harvest to reduce the entry of the pesticides into the groundwater, as well as nearby streams and estuaries. Once they are commercially available,...New study begins to unravel fate of toxic pollutants harbored in Arctic waters
New York An analysis of pesticides that accumulate in Arctic waterways is giving scie...he and her colleagues analyzed the behavior of two pesticides lindane and hexachlorobenzene (HCB). Both are prominent in Arctic waters, and both are part of a gr...Saliva spits out information on chemical exposure
...s or even acts of war and terrorism. "The class of pesticides we are studying, organophosphates, are chemically ...s Timchalk, a Battelle toxicologist at PNNL. "Both pesticides and nerve gases inhibit an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase. Without acetylcholinesterase, nerves,...Agronomy, Crop, and Soil Science Societies to meet Nov. 2-6 in Denver
...economy Lawncare/turfgrass, including irrigation, pesticides Conservation, including water quality Technology and agriculture, including GIS, GPS, remote sensing Science Education how schools promote science in the classroom For a searchable listing of the 2,500+ papers, click on the "What's Happening" li...Golfing toward a greener environment
... unintentional side effects of the fertilizers and pesticides applied to the golf-course greens to keep them loo...ation of environmental contamination caused by the pesticides and fertilizers applied to golf courses." Used tires could provide a barrier, according to the new r...Peregrine falcons may face new environmental threat
... Their decline was blamed mostly on organochlorine pesticides like DDT, which were linked to thin-shelled eggs that broke during incubation. While BDEs do not produce the eggshell thinning associated with DDT, there has been some evidence of neurobehavioral problems from exposure to the chemicals in laboratory ...Fish, FRAMES and sticky chemicals net technology award for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...ter release. Semi-volatiles are key ingredients in pesticides and herbicides and can be signatures of illegal chemical or nuclear weapons production. With heated equipment and clear Teflon sheet walls, the chamber is so nonstick that users can identify semi-volatile, volatile and particulate chemicals; understa......s natural chemical might someday reduce the use of pesticides and improve crop quality. Tumlinson chose the corn and beet armyworm system because the Florida facility has raised beet armyworms for a long time, and corn seedlings can be ready for experimentation in a week or two, while other plants take up to a ...