An extensive three-year research study of lakes in and around the Grand Portage Indian Reservation in Minnesota has found an abundance of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, hormones, pesticides, and other chemicals in water, lake bottoms and fish. What threat this poses for humans and wildlife will need to be studied further. But the presence of
Every spring, Dr. Carl Isaacson, a professor of environmental studies at Bemidji State University, sends his students out to collect perch from waters across Minnesota. Then, they study an egg yolk protein found in the perchs’ livers, called vitellogenin, which may provide evidence of endocrine disruption in the state’s aquatic species. Over the past few
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on called for a blanket ban on the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in Dal Lake. The direction was passed in view of a fresh report suggesting that usage of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in farming had badly deteriorated the health of the lake. The Lakes and Waterways
In 1985, Muskegon Lake in Michigan was declared a Great Lakes Area of Concern by the EPA. The West Michigan Shoreline Regional Development Commission will utilize $3.1 million to clean up the lake and undo years of environment abuse. The abuse began in the 1800’s during the lumber era when sawmill debris was tossed into
Imidacloprid is the world’s most popular pesticide, and highly controversial. It belongs to a family of neurotoxins, neonicotinoids, that is increasingly being blamed for colony collapse disorder—the sharp die-off of honeybees that has plagued North America since 2006. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the National Audubon Society, and the
Pesticide resistance is a major problem that occurs when a pesticide is used for control for years and then will no longer kill the pest. This is a billion dollar problem for US agriculture. In 1999 the cost of pesticides and the yield loss of crops to pesticide resistance was estimate at $1.5 billion in