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In the last week, there has been a lot of coverage on what effects pesticides have on bees, between the release of a Xerces Society report...

Pacific Black Duck / Photo by interllectual Over the weekend, there was a rash of bird deaths in Western Australia , at a landfill site sou...

This week the EPA announced its final ban on carbofuran residue in foods , to take effect by December. The Environmental Protection Agency h...

This might interest readers in Washington, DC: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, inspired our nation's most comprehe...

Back in 2006, the EPA decided against renewing the registration of carbofuran as a permitted pesticide for sale in the United States, on th...

The extent to which humans have managed to poison the planet is scary. In the latest case, the pesticide DDT has been found in Adélie pengui...

A couple weeks ago, I linked a story from Richmond, Virginia, in which a large flock of cedar waxwings became stuck in pigeon repellent . M...

Occasionally proponents of renewed DDT use will claim that the pesticide, banned in the United States as an ecological hazard, has no harmfu...

Sunday is Rachel Carson's 100th birthday, and in honor of the occasion, Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) planned to introduce a resolution to c...

On Tuesday I linked to a call for public petitions to ban carbofuran , a pesticide known to harm birds. Yesterday the EPA announced that its...

There is talk of reviving the pesticide DDT for use in preventing malaria in developing nations. It has been approved for such use by the U...

The American Bird Conservancy is asking birders to petition the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the pesticide carbofuran from ag...

Our national symbol evokes different reactions in different observers. A bald eagle in flight shows grace and power. On the ground, it appe...

Today, May 11, has been designated by the U.S. Senate as Endangered Species Day (pdf). The day comes at a time when the Endangered Species ...

The red-shouldered hawk is a characteristic raptor of eastern woodlands. They get their name from the rufous coloration on the leading ed...

Some Bird News Over the past week, there have been a series of articles reporting a finding by biologists that certain toxic hotspots in the...