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EPA Decides to Take a New Look at Atrazine

October 7, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:: atrazine, drinkingwater, ecosytems, frogs, health, midwest, pesticide, pesticides, simplesteps, toxics

Good news: today the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will initiate a review of the health and environmental effects of atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States. The review will take about a year...continued→

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Changing an ecosystem one meal at a time

September 30, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:: ecosytems, elk, predators, yellowstone

Olivia Judson has a very nice post up at the New York Times today about the role of predators in ecosystems. She points out all the ways that predators effect the behavior of a host of different animals--from elk...continued→