Sentences with phrase «over synthetic pesticides»

Choosing Organic Pesticides over Synthetic Pesticides May Not Effectively Mitigate Environmental Risk in Soybeans.

Choosing organic pesticides over synthetic pesticides may not effectively mitigate environmental risk in soybeans.

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There are over 14,000 products that carry the Australian Certified Organic logo — your guarantee the product is pasture fed, free range, cruelty free, non GM and grown free from synthetic pesticides, herbicides and antibiotics.

Over the last century, however, modern intensive agriculture, with its high input of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and monocrop specialization, has been detrimental to the diversity of genetic resources of crop varieties and livestock breeds, to the diversity of wild flora and fauna species and to the diversity of ecosystems.

Pesticides have greatly boosted agricultural yields over the last half century, so it is no wonder, given the commercial availability of many of these synthetic chemicals, that American homeowners apply 100 million pounds of the stuff each year to make their own gardens grow bigger and faster, too.

But before thinking about applying pesticides, gardeners can design (or re-design) their gardens to make the most of native plants that have evolved over eons to thrive in local conditions without synthetic aid or lots of water.

The increased use of synthetic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals to attack unwanted organisms, has outpaced the rates of change in rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and other agents of global environmental change over the past 45 years, a new Duke - led analysis reveals.

Over the past century, there has been a massive shift from manual growing practices to the use of machines, pesticides, herbicides, and synthetic fertilizers in farming.

There are over 80,000 synthetic chemicals in commerce today, including hormone - disrupting phthalates and parabens, cancer - causing pesticides, heavy metals and air pollutants.