Revelation 11:18
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And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
- King James Bible "Authorized Version", Cambridge Edition
Florida's Indian River Lagoon Is A "Killing Zone" Of Mass Animal Deaths: Report (VIDEO)
Hog Farms Battling to Contain Deadly Virus
Nathan Weber for The New York Times
A swine virus appeared in the United States last spring in Ohio and in weeks had spread to four more states. How it entered the country is unknown.
By STEVEN YACCINO
Published: August 4, 2013
ANNAWAN, Ill. — The outside world is not allowed in a sanitized and isolated pig farm here, not far from the Iowa border.
Visitors must shower before entering, scrubbing from head to toe, trading their street clothes for disinfected coveralls that have never left the premises. Everything inside the temperature-controlled barn housing 3,000 sows has been blasted with antiseptic.
“We do a better job than some hospitals,” said Dr. Matt Ackerman, a veterinarian who works with the farm.
Strict protocols have kept the operation, one of 10 swine facilities run by Great Plains Management, safe from a virus spreading across the country this summer, killing piglets by the thousands and distressing hog producers in 16 states.
But those same precautions have not worked everywhere. A Central Indiana farm that Dr. Ackerman also works with was among the first to lose piglets to the virus in May. “If it gets in, you can’t stop it,” Dr. Ackerman said. “We filled wheelbarrows with dead pigs.”
The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, which is deadly only to young pigs and poses no food safety risks or danger to humans, appeared in the United States for the first time last spring in Ohio and within weeks had spread to four other states.
The outbreak led to a flurry of lab testing and a survey of the industry to determine how the virus had entered the country, comparing supplies and feeds in an effort to find a smoking gun. Farmers are cross-referencing vaccine and semen distributors, even the brands of plastic pipettes they use to inseminate sows, desperate to contain a threat that has made the industry feel increasingly vulnerable.
“It’s anybody’s guess at this point,” said Lisa Becton, director of swine health information and research at the National Pork Board, which is spending $800,000 for research into the virus.
First surfacing in Britain more than 40 years ago, the virus has spread throughout Europe and Asia. It has caused problems most recently among pork producers in China, where a 2012 strand of the disease was 99.4 percent similar to cases now found in the United States, according to researchers.
Researchers in the United States are working on a vaccine for the virus, which is passed through fecal matter and resembles transmissible gastroenteritis, another pig-to-pig illness that American farms have at times encountered. Symptoms include severe diarrhea and vomiting, and mortality rates can reach 100 percent for pigs less than a week old. Older swine will be sick for days but most likely recover.
Retroactive testing by a national laboratory pegged the earliest confirmed case of the virus in the United States around April 15 at a farm in Ohio. Within a month, other cases had surfaced in Indiana, Iowa, Colorado and Minnesota.
By the end of July, 403 separate cases had been reported to the National Animal Health Laboratory Network of the Department of Agriculture, with most outbreaks occurring in Iowa (149) and Oklahoma (94). About 30 new cases are reported each week.
“There’s not many times that a new virus hits an industry that has no immunity,” saidRobert Morrison, a professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Minnesota who has been studying the virus. “Every pig in the United States is susceptible. It’s like throwing a spark on a bunch of kindling.”
No one quite knows how many pigs have died so far, in part because the virus is not considered a foreign animal disease by the Agriculture Department and farms are not required to report it to the authorities.
Few experts are willing to speculate, saying only that industry losses amount to several hundred thousand piglets nationwide.
Though it is perhaps too soon to predict how the virus may affect the price of pork products, the epidemic has already caused economic hardships for individual farmers, particularly amid soaring feed prices caused by last year’s drought.
An average farm with 2,500 sows could lose nearly every newborn for four weeks if it is hit with the virus, killing roughly 5,000 piglets and causing financial losses close to $200,000. Adult pigs that recuperate typically build immunity to the virus, making recurring outbreaks rare.
“One month can do a lot of damage,” said Mark Greenwood, senior vice president for AgStar Financial Services, which provides financing to hog farms. “It’s really devastating if you’re finally turning the corner.”
The fear has inspired a renewed vigilance across the hog industry to ensure that workers are using basic practices like disinfecting their boots and trailers after visiting packing plants, which researchers have identified as high-risk locations for picking up the virus.
Yet questions remain about how the virus got to the United States in the first place, raising anxiety among producers and farmers.
“The world got a lot smaller that day,” Tom Burkgren, executive director of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, said of when the first domestic case was confirmed. “If P.E.D.V. can get into the United States, what about some of the even more nasty viruses?”
Preliminary results from a targeted survey led by the association, which some had hoped would identify a link among infected farms, suggested that more data was needed. Dr. Burkgren said investigators would take a closer look at feed-related risk factors.
Jan Hueber, co-owner of Great Plains Management, the swine consultants, said he would take nothing for granted.
After an Indiana farm he works with lost at least three weeks of piglets from the virus, Mr. Hueber’s truck drivers now wear plastic disposable boots every time they visit a hog facility.
“Do we sleep comfortable at night?” he asked. “Not when you have something looming out there that can be so financially devastating.”
“We assume everything is infected,” he added.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/us/hog-producers-battling-to-contain-virus-that-has-killed-piglets-by-the-thousands.html?_r=1&Mormoiron: hundreds of dead fish recovered in the Auzon
A fisherman made the sad discovery Saturday, since the competent authorities are trying to understand the causes of this disaster
Photo Guillaume Balay
Sad discovery as made by a fisherman, Saturday. Hundreds of dead fish floated in the Auzon, in the commune of Mormoiron. Against this sinister, and a very probable pollution of the rivers, the municipality, the services of the departmental Directorate of the territory, the AERs, the fishermen's federation of Vaucluse, the Union of the Mont Ventoux and the water police, went on the spot yesterday morning.
The observation is disastrous. "Completed four electric fisheries to make an inventory of fish. At the height of the bridge of the D77, we saw only three specimens and found more than 200 deaths on only two kilometers, or one every 10 meters. This is really alarming!" concerned technician of the federation. "The Auzon was one of the last rivers where the reproduction and the balance of species were naturally. "It will take a decade before it returned to its State of origin '.
Large-scale pollution
Of course, everyone wondered about the source of this pollution. According to the federation of fishing, it would appear that the death of species is due to a lack of oxygen. Several hypotheses are being considered: malfunction of the plant located upstream, evoked by the prefecture and the fishermen. It would have been caused by large storms of the last week, resulting in a stronger rejection of wastewater in the rivers, by the station.
However, this hypothesis has categorically denied by the AERs and the Mayor, Gérard Krishna who argue that surveys have been conducted. Another possibility: a rejection of chlorine by a pool, that refutes the federation, or even agricultural wild rejection. In all cases, an investigation was opened by the national agency of water and aquatic environments and fishermen of the Department have decided to be a civil party. What is certain is that this is the first time that the Auzon is affected by pollution of such magnitude.
More than 4,000 birds to be culled in MP
RAIPUR: Soon after the samples sent from Anjora and Jagdalpur farm were declared positive by Bhopal's High Security Animal Diseases Laboratory, as a threat of bird flu (avian influenza) in Chhattisgarh, the rapid response team of Animal Husbandry's Veterinary Department, commenced disinfection in the region, killing more than 4,000 birds there.
Talking to TOI, S K Pandey, director, Animal Husbandry Department, said, "The cleaning and sanitation work is underway in both the affected areas which would finish latest by Wednesday morning. An area of one kilometer around the radius of infected zones would be sanitized. We had an inspection meeting with the alertness committee, health, forest and revenue officials after the Union ministry advised killing the birds in the affected areas. Nearly 2,500-3,000 birds have already died out of which 500 were in Anjora farm, Durg district and 3,000 in Jagdalpur's Kukkut farm."
read more at http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-07/raipur/41167155_1_poultry-birds-bird-flu-poultry-products
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2013 – Mass Animal Deaths
8th August 2013 – 50+ Black Birds fall dead from sky in Winnipeg, Canada. Link
7th August 2013 – Thousands of Piglets have died this past year from a disease spreading across America. Link
7th August 2013 – Hundreds of dead fish found floating in the Auzon in France.Link
7th August 2013 – Thousands of dead fish found floating in a river in Hangzhou,China. Link
7th August 2013 – 13 Dolphins wash ashore dead during past week in Virginia,America. Link
7th August 2013 – 4,000 Birds to be killed due to Avian flu in Jagdalpur, India.Link
7th August 2013 – 1000+ dead fish found in par river in Cornwall, England. Link
6th August 2013 – Up to 1000 lbs of dead fish washed ashore in Ylane, Finland.Link
6th August 2013 – Fish kill caused by pollution in a river in Espoo, Finland. Link
6th August 2013 – Hundreds of thousands of dead fish wash ashore in Karachi, Pakistan. Link
6th August 2013 – 840 dead Salmon found in a creek in Port Coquitlam, Canada.Link
4th August 2013 – 500 fish found dead in the river Colne in Hertfordshire,England. Link
3rd August 2013 – Hundreds of ducks dead from “worst outbreak of botulism” in Harrow Park, London, England. Link
3rd August 2013 – MILLIONS of fish dead from “red tide” in South Korea. Link
3rd August 2013 – 4 more Dolphins wash ashore dead on beaches in Jersey,America. Link
3rd August 2013 – Hundreds of thousands of fish floating dead on a lake in Guizhou, China. Link
3rd August 2013 – Hundreds of fish found dead in Assabet river in Massachusetts,America. Link
2nd August 2013 – 80+ Dolphins have washed ashore dead during July in Virginia, New York, Jersey and Maryland, America. Link
2nd August 2013 – Tens of thousands of dead fish found in a pond in Qingyuan,China. Link
2nd August 2013 – Hundreds of dead fish found in High Park pond in toronto,Canada. Link
2nd August 2013 – Hundreds of fish found dead in Lower Owens River in California, America. Link
1st August 2013 – Mass fish die off in a lagoon in Santa Giusta, Italy. Link
1st August 2013 – Thousands of dead fish floating in the river Spree in Berlin,Germany. Link
1st August 2013 – Massive die off of Oysters due to “unknown disease” along the coast of France. Link
1st August 2013 – Hundreds of fish found dead due to “lack of oxygen” in River Cam in England. Link
1st August 2013 – Thousands of fish died every day during July in a fish farm in Qingpu District, China. Link
31st July 2013 – Vultures die en mass due to “agricultural chemical” in East Griqualand, South Africa. Link
31st July 2013 – Thousands of dead fish, stingrays, crabs and shrimp have washed ashore this month on Mississippi beaches in America. Link
31st July 2013 – Large fish die off in fish farms in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam. Link
31st July 2013 – Thousands of dead fish found in a canal in Peronnes, Belgium.Link
31st July 2013 – Thousands of fish die in a creek in Vizovice, Czech Republic.Link
31st July 2013 – 3 TONS of fish die due to “lack of oxygen” in a river in Pilsen,Czech Republic. Link
30th July 2013 – 5,000 fish found dead in Savannah River, Columbia County inAmerica. Link
30th July 2013 – Large fish kill reported on the Moervaart Canal in Belgium. Link
30th July 2013 – Thousands of dead fish found in River Lea in England. Link
29th July 2013 – Thousands of fish die due to river drying up in Brembo, Italy.Link
29th July 2013 – Massive fish kill due to “lack of oxygen” in a pond in Rotterdam,Netherlands. Link
29th July 2013 – Hundreds of dead fish wash ashore “due to pollution” on beach in Veracruz, Mexico. Link
29th July 2013 – 7 TONS of dead fish recovered from the Keelung river inTaiwan. Link
29th July 2013 – Thousands of fish die “due to heat and storms” in Handsworth Park, Birmingham, England. Link
28th July 2013 – 1100 King Salmon found dead in a river in Petersburg, Alaska,America. Link
27th July 2013 – 10,000 Chickens dead from bird flu in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Link
27th July 2013 – 6 Dolphins wash up dead during past week along New Jersey shoreline, America. Link
27th July 2013 – 10,000 dead fish found in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, America.Link
27th July 2013 – 375,000 bees died during past year on one honey farm in Andebu, Norway. Link
27th July 2013 – Mass death of fish found “is a mystery” in a river in Skane,Sweden. Link
27th July 2013 – Large fish kill in the Bahlui river, “cause unknown” in Romania.Link
26th July 2013 – Hundreds of thousands of fish dying from “red tide” in South Korea. Link (also here)
26th July 2013 – Hundreds to Thousands of dead fish found floating in River Dender, Ath, Belgium. Link
26th July 2013 – Mass fish die off in a river in Moscow, Russia. Link
26th July 2013 – 25,000 dead fish “is a mystery” in Pittville Lake in Gloucestershire, England. Link
26th July 2013 – 20,000 fish die along a 5 mile stretch of river in Jiangshan,China. Link
25th July 2013 – Hundreds of fish found dead in a park pond in Birmingham,England. Link
24th July 2013 – Massive fish kill washes up in Venice lagoon, Italy. Link
24th July 2013 – Hundreds to thousands of dead fish in Lake Bulwell causes shock in Nottingham, England. Link
24th July 2013 – 30,000 fish dying PER DAY due to pollution in fish farms in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand. Link
24th July 2013 – Large Oyster die off due to virus in Carlingford Lough, Northern Ireland. Link
24th July 2013 – INFO: 2 Million Birds killed using poison to save Rice Fields in Bugiri, Uganda. Link
24th July 2013 – Masses of dead fish found in River Lea in England. Link
24th July 2013 – Hundreds of dead fish found in Provo River, Utah, America. Link
23rd July 2013 – Hundreds of fish have died in a park pond in Youngstown, Ohio,America. Link
22nd July 2013 – Hundreds of dead fish found in Lake George, Massechusetts,America. Link
22nd July 2013 – Large fish kill at Grand Lake, St Marys, Ohio, America. Link
22nd July 2013 – Thousands of dead fish found in a creek in Taichung, China.Link
21st July 2013 – Hundreds of fish found dead in a creek in Laille, France. Link
20th July 2013 – 36,000 Bees found dead, “pesticides suspected” in Niestetal,Germany. Link
20th July 2013 – 3,000 fish found dead in a creek in Madison County, Ohio,America. Link
19th July 2013 – 2,000 dead fish found in a lake in Vollsmose, Denmark. Link
19th July 2013 – Hundreds of fish turning up dead in Holter Lake, Montana,America. Link
19th July 2013 – Large number of Black Kites falling dead from sky “puzzling scientists” in Queensland, Australia. Link
19th July 2013 – THOUSANDS OF TONS of fish have died in Lake Tondano,Indonesia. Link
18th July 2013 – 118 Peacocks have died from disease during past 2 months in Tharparkar, Pakistan. Link
18th July 2013 – Hundreds of dead Stingrays wash ashore in Veracruz, Mexico.Link
18th July 2013 – 10,000 lbs of dead fish found in a lake in Nanjing, China. Link
18th July 2013 – Thousands of fish dead from “lack of rain” in Sugar Lake, Missouri, America. Link
18th July 2013 – Large fish kill washing up on lake Michigan in America. Link
18th July 2013 – 20 acres of fish ponds full of dead fish in Shandong, China. Link
17th July 2013 – 600 fish dead from “heat and low water” in reservoir in Utah,America. Link
16th July 2013 – Thousands of dead fish found along the shoreline in Chaguaramas, Trinidad. Link
15th July 2013 – Massive numbers of fish dying in the Gulf of Finland, Russia.Link
15th July 2013 – INFO: 3500 Puffins have died this year due to “bad weather” along east coast of Scotland. Link
13th July 2013 – Die off of Chinook salmon “due to heat wave” in John Day River, Oregon, America. Link
13th July 2013 – Hundreds of dead fish found in a river in Miri, Malaysia. Link
12th July 2013 – Tens of thousands of dead eels cover 1km of beach in Guangdong, China. Link
12th July 2013 – “Significant” fish kill due to flooding in Calgary, Canada. Link
11th July 2013 – Hundreds of dead fish found in a creek in Colonial Heights, Virginia, America. Link
11th July 2013 – 9,000 Birds killed due to Avian flu in Scott County, Arkansas,America. Link
10th July 2013 – 489 heads of cattle killed due to foot and mouth disease in Nyingchi Prefecture, China. Link
10th July 2013 – Thousands of fish have died in the River Guadiana, Vila Real de Santo Antonio, Portugal. Link
10th July 2013 – 40 TONS of dead Fish removed from lake in Thuringia,Germany. Link
10th July 2013 – Mass fish kill in a pond shocks residents in Bargteheide,Germany. Link
10th July 2013 – 200,000+ fish have died due to “pump failure” in Washington,America. Link
10th July 2013 – Massive fish kill due to pollution in Dongping Lake, Shandong,China. Link
10th July 2013 – Hundreds of dead fish washing up along Neuse River in N.Carolina, America. Link
9th July 2013 – Bee die off: Thousands of honeybees found dead in St Paul, Minnesota, America. Link
9th July 2013 – Hundreds of dead fish found in a river in Bricquebec, France. Link
9th July 2013 – 2 Whales dead after beaching on Jupiter Island in Florida,America. Link
9th July 2013 – Hundreds of fish dying in canals due to contamination in Batan, Limon, Costa Rica. Link
9th July 2013 – Hundreds of dead fish found covering a beach in Playa del Benissero, Spain. Link
9th July 2013 – 200,000 lbs of fish dead from “power failure” in fish farms in Yucheng County, China. Link
8th July 2013 – Massive die off of fish and shrimp in 13 ponds in Guangdong,China. Link
8th July 2013 – Large number of dead fish in a river in Pengjiang District, China.Link
8th July 2013 – Tens of thousands of dead fish found floating in a River in Huai’an City, China. Link
7th July 2013 – Tons of fish killed due to oil spill in the sea off coast of Binh Dinh,Vietnam. Link
7th July 2013 – Thousands of dead fish found in a reservoir in Guangxi, China.Link
7th July 2013 – Fish turning up dead for past 3 weeks in Lake Malawi, Malawi.Link
6th July 2013 – 1,200 lbs of Bluefish “mysteriously” washed up dead in Shinnecock Bay, America. Link
6th July 2013 – 3 Killer Whales dead after 7 become stranded in Queensland,Australia. Link
5th July 2013 – Dead fish covers a whole beach in Tarasivka, Ukraine. Link
5th July 2013 – Thousands of fish have died in fish farm in Mai Chau District,Vietnam. Link
5th July 2013 – Hundreds of Fish found dead in a river in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Link
4th July 2013 – Mass Fish kill “due to crop fertilizers” in a lake in Cherkasy,Ukraine. Link
4th July 2013 – Fish die en masse for second time in St Petersburg, Russia. Link
4th July 2013 – 50 – 100 TONS of fish have died after flooding in Magdeburg,Germany. Link
4th July 2013 – 10,000 Chickens killed due to Avian Flu in Kathmandu, Nepal. Link
4th July 2013 – 60,000 lbs of fish dead in two ponds in Lintong, Xian, China.Link
4th July 2013 – 80+ TONS of dead fish removed from Mississippi Sound,America. Link
3rd July 2013 – Large fish kill ongoing in reservoir in Boyolali, Indonesia. Link
3rd July 2013 – 1,400 Ducks, plus hundreds of Chickens found dead in Subang,Indonesia. Link
3rd July 2013 – Thousands of dead fish found in a lake in Dax, France. Link
3rd July 2013 – Large number of dead fish found in creek stretching over half kilometer in Xiamen, China. Link
3rd July 2013 – Fish kills reported on several of the Finger Lakes in New York,America. Link
3rd July 2013 – 90 TONS of dead Fish found on coastal fish farms in Lim Chu Kang, Singapore. Link
3rd July 2013 – Fish kill found along Lido beach in Johor Baru, Malaysia. Link
2nd July 2013 – Hundreds of dead and dying fish on the shores of Simeto River in Sicily, Italy. Link
2nd July 2013 – Thousands of fish found dead in Chetek Lake, Wisconsin,America. Link
2nd July 2013 – 200 – 500 TONS of dead Fish turns dam into “mass fish grave” in Guadalajara, Mexico. Link
1st July 2013 – Hundreds of dead Fish found floating at a seaside landfill in Sidon,Lebanon. Link
1st July 2013 – Fish die off (worst in years) on Canandaigua Lake, New York,America. Link
1st July 2013 – Hundreds of freshwater fish dead in a lagoon in Puerto Marques,Mexico. Link
Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought
Outlawing a type of insecticides is not a panacea. AP Photo/Ben Margot
As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis melliferapopulation that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought.
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Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past six years. Suspects have included pesticides, disease-bearing parasites and poor nutrition. But in a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying though they do not identify the specific cause of CCD, where an entire beehive dies at once.
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When researchers collected pollen from hives on the east coast pollinating cranberry, watermelon and other crops and fed it to healthy bees, those bees showed a significant decline in their ability to resist infection by a parasite calledNosema ceranae. The parasite has been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder though scientists took pains to point out that their findings do not directly link the pesticides to CCD. The pollen was contaminated on average with nine different pesticides and fungicides though scientists discovered 21 agricultural chemicals in one sample. Scientists identified eight ag chemicals associated with increased risk of infection by the parasite.
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Most disturbing, bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides were three times as likely to be infected by the parasite. Widely used, fungicides had been thought to be harmless for bees as they’re designed to kill fungus, not insects, on crops like apples.
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“There’s growing evidence that fungicides may be affecting the bees on their own and I think what it highlights is a need to reassess how we label these agricultural chemicals,” Dennis vanEngelsdorp, the study’s lead author, told Quartz.
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Labels on pesticides warn farmers not to spray when pollinating bees are in the vicinity but such precautions have not applied to fungicides.
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Bee populations are so low in the US that it now takes 60% of the country’s surviving colonies just to pollinate one California crop, almonds. And that’s not just a west coast problem—California supplies 80% of the world’s almonds, a market worth $4 billion.
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In recent years, a class of chemicals called neonicotinoids has been linked to bee deaths and in April regulators banned the use of the pesticide for two years in Europe where bee populations have also plummeted. But vanEngelsdorp, an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland, says the new study shows that the interaction of multiple pesticides is affecting bee health.
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“The pesticide issue in itself is much more complex than we have led to be believe,” he says. “It’s a lot more complicated than just one product, which means of course the solution does not lie in just banning one class of product.”
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The study found another complication in efforts to save the bees: US honey bees, which are descendants of European bees, do not bring home pollen from native North American crops but collect bee chow from nearby weeds and wildflowers. That pollen, however, was also contaminated with pesticides even though those plants were not the target of spraying.
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“It’s not clear whether the pesticides are drifting over to those plants but we need take a new look at agricultural spraying practices,” says vanEngelsdorp.
Biologists race to solve mysterious mass animal deaths in Florida lagoon
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/19/biologists-race-to-solve-mysterious-mass-animal-deaths-in-florida-lagoon/#ixzz2bWQMQFyB
Dead birds fall 'like raindrops' in Winnipeg's North End
CBC News
Posted: Aug 7, 2013 4:21 PM CT
Last Updated: Aug 7, 2013 7:31 PM CT