pesticides Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 18 Mar 2018 18:07:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 80 Percent of Food Traders Fail in Saving Bees and Consumers’ Health from Pesticides https://www.greenoptimistic.com/80-percent-of-food-traders-fail-in-saving-bees-and-consumers-health-from-pesticides-20180318/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/80-percent-of-food-traders-fail-in-saving-bees-and-consumers-health-from-pesticides-20180318/#respond Sun, 18 Mar 2018 18:07:36 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=65364 Last month, it was reported that “roboBees”, which can actually pollinate artificially, have been developed by Japanese researchers. The motivation for this effort is the fact that forty percent of bees’ species, our natural pollinators, are nearing extinction. One major factor driving their extinction is the uncontrolled usage of pesticides in conventional agriculture. In the […]

The post 80 Percent of Food Traders Fail in Saving Bees and Consumers’ Health from Pesticides appeared first on The Green Optimistic.

]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/80-percent-of-food-traders-fail-in-saving-bees-and-consumers-health-from-pesticides-20180318/feed/ 0 65364 These Deadly Pesticides Get Collected by Honey Bees and Poured Into Your Tea Cup https://www.greenoptimistic.com/honey-bees-pesticides-20171010/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/honey-bees-pesticides-20171010/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:00:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=64624 A recent survey that analyzed the production of honey across the globe found that honeybees may unwillingly bring chemicals back to their hives, thus contaminating it. Neonicotinoid pesticides have been found in samples taken from hives all over the world. While this is only the first survey of this kind, it does present a rather […]

The post These Deadly Pesticides Get Collected by Honey Bees and Poured Into Your Tea Cup appeared first on The Green Optimistic.

]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/honey-bees-pesticides-20171010/feed/ 0 64624 Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder Makes the News Again https://www.greenoptimistic.com/honeybee-colony-collapse-disorder-makes-news-20140514/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/honeybee-colony-collapse-disorder-makes-news-20140514/#comments Wed, 14 May 2014 19:05:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47505 The only reason I can assume we are having this conversation all over again as though we have never had it is because we are brain damaged… According to a new study from Harvard, American honeybees are dying en masse due to exposure to pesticides. Lots and lots of pesticides. The article “Sub-lethal exposure to […]

The post Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder Makes the News Again appeared first on The Green Optimistic.

]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/honeybee-colony-collapse-disorder-makes-news-20140514/feed/ 2 47505 Biofuel Seeds Increase Pesticide Usage and Chemical Residues in Our Food https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biofuel-seeds-increase-pesticide-usage-and-chemical-residues-in-our-food-20091125/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biofuel-seeds-increase-pesticide-usage-and-chemical-residues-in-our-food-20091125/#respond Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:18:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5494 An article published last week by a group of health and environmental protection organizations stated that since 1996 till today, the U.S. farmers have increased dramatically the use of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton.

The post Biofuel Seeds Increase Pesticide Usage and Chemical Residues in Our Food appeared first on The Green Optimistic.

]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biofuel-seeds-increase-pesticide-usage-and-chemical-residues-in-our-food-20091125/feed/ 0 5494