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Slugging it out with a new contender in the GMO debate
A Pennsylvania slugpocalypse led to new data in the clash over biotech seeds -- and points to a better way of protecting crops.
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Hungry bacteria help make bugs resistant to pesticides
Use pesticides on a field for long enough and the bugs that you’re supposed to be defeating will adapt. But you know what adapts faster than bugs? Bacteria. They can run through multiple generations in a day or so, and a new study shows that when bugs team up with a certain pesticide-loving bacteria, the […]
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Scotts Miracle-Gro pleads guilty to selling poisoned bird seed
Scotts Miracle-Gro products are known for zapping weeds dead. But it turns out they could be killing decidedly more attractive creatures -- birds.
