wildlife health
04/17/2018
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By Isabelle Z.
Heavy metal poisoning causes personality shifts in birds; they become less curious and unwilling to explore new places
You’re probably already aware just how bad environmental toxins can be for your health, but did you know that they can also alter personalities? Heavy metals occur naturally in the environment in small amounts, but human activity can cause these numbers to rise dramatically in some places, and many species are paying the price for […]
03/22/2018
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By Vicki Batts
If the EPA allows continued use of dicamba pesticide, it could push monarch butterflies to extinction
Over the course of the next year, more than 60 million acres of the monarch butterfly’s natural habitat are expected to be sprayed with dicamba herbicide. The shocking report from the Center for Biological Diversity, a U.S. environmental group, explains that the widespread use of this toxin spells big trouble for the butterflies. The report […]
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