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Protect Children from Hazardous Pesticides
October is Children’s Environmental Health Month in California, and there’s no better time to face a hard truth: Here in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, in counties like Fresno and Tulare, children are among the most pesticide-exposed in California. They inhale drifting pesticide sprays from fields next to homes and schools, and many risk exposure on campus because the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) still reserves the right to use hi…
Text by Lara de Oliveira, Journalism student at PUC-PR, under the guidance of Rogerio Galindo. A proposal made by the Directorate of the Agricultural Sciences Sector of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) is generating division within the university itself. The sector has requested the Water and Land Institute (IAT) to relax the rules on the use of pesticides at the Canguiri Experimental Stations Center in Pinhais. The Canguiri Farm is part …
The European Union is increasingly committed to farming systems with a zero ecological impact and minimal risk to people’s health through the reduction of pesticide use. Various studies have already warned of the consequences it can have on the animal fauna of the environment, such as a study led by the Jagelonic University of Poland with the participation of the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona, where they…
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