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EPA’s plan to keep up with ESA

22 Apr 2022April 30, 2022
Workplan reference: https://www.epa.gov/endangered-species/epas-workplan-and-progress-toward-better-protections-endangered-species#workplan Feature image: https://www.epa.gov/endangered-species The EPA recently announced that it will evaluate the potential effects of all new pesticide active ingredients on federally endangered or threatened (i.e., listed)…
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Can exposure to insecticides impact monarch butterfly conservation?

24 Jun 2021December 29, 2021
Featured image: Monarch caterpillar photo was taken by Aaron Eckley at Iowa State University. This was originally published by Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium: https://monarch.ent.iastate.edu/can-exposure-insecticides-impact-monarch-butterfly-conservation. The question posed in the title…
NAS reports

Assessing risk to endangered species

5 Jan 2020February 24, 2022
Featured image: The Golden Toad was last recorded in 1989. Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (obtained from Wikimedia Commons) The “Assessing Risk to Endangered and Threatened Species from Pesticides”…
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Why we need a science-based approach to help the monarch butterflies

5 Jul 2018March 31, 2020
[This post was originally published in Students of SETAC Outreach. The work described in this article has now been published: https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/etc.4672 ] I will start by acknowledging this: I am…
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The impact of three insecticides on endangered species

15 Jun 2018December 29, 2021
Featured image: The location of critical habitats (areas essential for conservation of threatened and endangered species) in mainland United States. Photo Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services. This post was…
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Rachel Carson’s legacy

8 Jan 2018October 29, 2021
Feature image: Rachel Carson (Photo source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) If there is one name you should know if you want to learn more about environmental toxicology, it is…
Winner of the  General science posts and graphics category in the ScienceSeeker Awards 2019

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