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Pesticide 'contaminating' Prairie wetlands: scientist (2014)

65 pointsby asaegynalmost 6 years ago

3 comments

brigaalmost 6 years ago
Many of the large shallow lakes in the Prairie provinces are drying up as well. For example Miquelon lake in central Alberta has shrunk by at least half since European settlers arrived. Not to mention the fact that many smaller lakes are now overgrown with algal blooms during the summer months due to fertilizer runoff. There is very little natural prairie left in the west, and pressure from agriculture and development are growing every year.<p>Question is, is there anything we can do about it, or is it just the price we pay for human development? When you look at the ecological sterilization that happened in places like the San Joaquin valley in California things start to look pretty bleak.
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daxfohlalmost 6 years ago
Has anyone else noticed that flies seem <i>slower</i> now than years ago? I feel like now I have a 50% or better chance of getting a bug with my hand. Seems like years ago it was much more rare.
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ptahalmost 6 years ago
article is from 2014. these are already banned in EU. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;science-environment-43910536" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;science-environment-43910536</a> is it not banned in north america yet?
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