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Some banned pesticides have almost disappeared from the air

Brian Owens · May 9, 2023 ·

Two recently banned pesticides have all but vanished from the atmosphere around the Great Lakes, but others phased out decades earlier don’t seem to be going anywhere. Marta Venier, an environmental chemist at Indiana University, and her colleagues used a unique long-term dataset collected by the US Environmental Protection Agency, which has been sampling the […]

Pollen-mimicking antidote saves bees after pesticide exposure

Brian Owens · May 20, 2021 ·

Feeding bees an antidote packaged inside pollen-like particles can rescue them from pesticide poisoning, according to research by scientists in the US. Read more in Chemistry World.

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