Environment
Pesticides: disturbing findings
Dr Alison Bleaney
One of the disturbing findings of the Tasmanian River Catchment Water Quality Monitoring Initiative (just about to finish after 2 years) is that the half-lives of many of the pesticides when tested individually, is much longer in Tasmania than in warmer areas of the mainland. Soil characteristics including the amount of organic content is obviously another factor. The other findings which fall out of the “initiative” are that … Read more, Comment here