Pesticides
- Attribution
- Posted12 June 2016
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- Posted19 May 2016
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- Posted7 April 2016
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- Posted27 March 2016
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- Posted23 March 2016
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- Posted21 March 2016
Witness History. Silent Spring: A book that changed the world. Audio, 9 minutes
Silent Spring examined the effect of pesticides on the environment
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Discovery. Preventing pesticide poisoning. Audio, 27 minutes
How banning pesticides in Sri Lanka led to a massive drop in suicides
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Science In Action. Neonicotinoids Harm Bees. Audio, 27 minutes
Prolonged exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides harms wild bees and honeybees
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Science In Action. Tracking Poverty. Audio, 27 minutes
Identifying Africa’s poor regions using satellites reveal places where help is needed most
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
On Your Farm. Biocontrols - Using Bugs to Deal with Plant Problems. Audio, 22 minutes
Louise Labuschagne shows two English farmers how and why she uses bugs and pesticides.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Life Scientific. Dave Goulson on bees. Audio, 28 minutes
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Dave Goulson about his obsession with bees.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Costing the Earth. Better Living Through Chemistry? Audio, 30 minutes
How being exposed to a cocktail of pesticides could potentially damage our health.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Living Conditions. DDT pesticide. Audio, 13 minutes
DDT was initially considered a miracle pesticide, but caused huge damage to the ecosystem
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Works. Solar Power. Audio, 23 minutes
Controlling pesticides that control pests
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Global Concerns. How Pollution Affects the Foetus. Audio, 14 minutes
How dioxins, pesticides and PCBs upset the balance of hormones in human foetuses
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Global Concerns. Genetically-engineered Virus. Audio, 14 minutes
Concerns for the genetically-engineered virus that uses scorpion venom to poison insects
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Nature's Way. Audio, 28 minutes
The campaign in the Philippines to stop rice-farmers overusing chemical pesticides
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
