Environment minister Emma Hardy said: “We are delivering on our promise to ban toxic bee-killing pesticides and ending the long-term decline of our wildlife. “Protecting bees by stopping the use of ...
(Beyond Pesticides, December 18, 2024) A bombshell investigation conducted by Canada’s National Observer finds that Bayer, which acquired the Monsanto chemical company in 2018, colluded with ...
Emergency use of three pesticides that can be deadly to bees will soon be stopped for good, the government has said. Neonicotinoids were banned in 2018 but sugar beet farmers have been given ...
These included carbaryl and diazinon – both endocrine disrupting chemicals which have been linked to cancer – as well as the bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticide imidacloprid, which was found ...
For instance, last month American researchers found that glyphosate – the most common herbicide in Canada — can increase the risk of neurological disease. Health experts have also linked widely-used ...