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- Séralini’s rat-feeding trial (part 5)
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Tag Archives: car
Killing bees in Oregon
Oregon may not be the best place to be a bee. Last year, 50 000 bumblebees (Bombus sp.) died there in a parking lot. Trees had been sprayed with pesticide. It turned out that the spray was dinotefuran, one of … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, miniculture
Tagged America, apiculture, arthropod, bumblebee, car, dinotefuran, Europe, honeybee, hymenopteran, insecticide, law, neonicotinoid, pesticide, plant_gymnosperm, roadside
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Electric cars and bacterial plastics
We need to get better at using organisms. Organisms are alive so they can breed. That is, they’re renewable. Some of them can be used in ways that, people claim, are sustainable. That is, using some organisms is supposed to … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer, miniculture
Tagged allotment, bacterium, biobased industry, car, compost, fuel, garden, knowledge, laboratory, plastic, renewable, soil, sustainable, technology, transport
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