How To Use Atrazine In A Sentence
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The Huffington Post Investigative Fund discovered that the EPA has been collecting data that shows people are drinking water laced with high levels of a weed killer known as atrazine but did not publish the data.
Democracy Now!
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In the last few years, Professor Hayes has testified in various Senate hearings claiming the EPA is accepting flawed chemical industry-funded studies as evidence of atrazine's safety.
Annie Spiegelman: Living Downstream: Steingraber Documentary Puts Moral Imperative on Banning Cancer-Causing Chemicals
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For optimum yields yams must be kept free from weeds, at least for the first three months of growth, and the following herbicides have been used successfully: diuron 2.6 kg/ha, together with TCA at 4.4 kg/ha, and atrazine at 1. 5-2.9 kg/ha.
Chapter 37
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No unusually high levels of pesticides and metals or even oil and grease were detected from the run-off, although the common herbicide atrazine has been detected twice.
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During this 3-year study, they found that the three-zone riparian buffer was effective at reducing the amounts of two herbicides, atrazine and alachlor, that entered the shallow groundwater and surface runoff.
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To reduce or eliminate this problem, use no more than 1.6 pounds active per acre of atrazine or simazine the year before planting soybeans.
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Within Southern Florida, soil and water conditions indicate potential for leaching from the use of atrazine-based herbicides in corn crops.
August 6th, 2007
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The privately funded Wisconsin study focused on three commonly used farm chemicals: aldicarb, an insecticide; atrazine, an herbicide; and nitrate, a chemical fertilizer.
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They are constantly being retired with hindsight, recent examples being the triazine herbicides, such as atrazine and simazine, which have been shown to be endocrine disruptors.
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Popular herbicides like atrazine and alachlor just didn't show up at the levels expected.
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Researchers are particularly nervous about the weed killer atrazine, BPA and other chemicals known as endocrine disruptors.
Industrial Chemicals Lurking In Your Bloodstream
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By potting under greenhouse conditions, compared with prometryn and atrazine, the security of terbuthylazine to cotton, maize and peanut was studied.
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At low doses, atrazine induces aromatase and estrogen expression.
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Bioassays with lettuce and cucumber seedlings showed that simazine, a triazine herbicide related to atrazine, can persist in soils and cause subsequent replanting problems.
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He agreed atrazine was one possible cause.
Times, Sunday Times
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Studies of people exposed to atrazine indicate that the chemical may be linked to a number of cancers, including prostate cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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These pesticides are called endocrine disruptors, and one example is the weed killer atrazine.
Sandra Steingraber: A Bridge to Somewhere - Responding to the President's Cancer Panel Report (Part 1)
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Becoming emasculated and impotent isn't a pretty fate for a male frog, but thanks to a pesticide called atrazine, it could be a common one.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Atrazine is mainly applied to corn and soybean crops, but is also used on sorghum, sugarcane, pineapple, turf grass, and Christmas tree farms.
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Soon, another graduate student there will work with Samac on expressing a new gene so that plants can degrade enough atrazine to be useful in cleaning up contaminated soil and water.
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Among the chemicals known to affect breast development and cancer susceptibility in animal studies, according to the report, are pesticides such as atrazine, used in agriculture; dioxins, an industrial pollutant found in some fatty foods; bisphenol A (BPA), found in some water bottles and canned foods; polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants, and nonylphenol (a breakdown product found in certain laundry detergents).
Early chemical exposures may affect breast health
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The concern is that drainage discharge water can carry pollutants such as the herbicide atrazine, sediment, and nutrients to surface waters.
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Recent media events by agenda-driven organizations such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, Land Stewardship Project and Pesticide Action Network North America suggest a coordinated campaign to call atrazine's safety into question and politicize what should be a scientific process.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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The herbicides alachlor and atrazine and the pesticide diazinon may be to blame.
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The non-atrazine herbicides were at least as effective as the atrazine herbicides.
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Hayes labels atrazine an "endocrine disruptor"--a novel, widely-circulated notion that exposure to certain chemicals can radically alter sexual development.
Jon Entine: Frog Day Afternoon: Choose Science Over Politics to Conserve the Endangered Amphibian Population
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Atrazine is an herbicide widely used to control weeds in Midwest corn and soybean fields.
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I would also suggest that chemicals like atrazine and simazine, which have already been banned by a number of countries overseas, should be immediately withdrawn from registration here.
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Bioassays with lettuce and cucumber seedlings showed that simazine, a triazine herbicide related to atrazine, can persist in soils and cause subsequent replanting problems.
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Poplar plants have already been used to remove atrazine, trichloroethylene and selenium from polluted soils.
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While atrazine is coming to the forefront why is a more ubiquitous poison being hidden by EPA and DEQ?
How much atrazine, from forest to faucet? (Jack Bog's Blog)
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In Hayes' study, African clawed frog tadpoles exposed to levels of atrazine commonly found in the environment were demasculinized and turned into hermaphrodites - creatures with both male and female genitalia.
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His findings are clear: frogs, who exhibit the same reproductive hormone vulnerability as humans, experience retarded gonadal development and hermaphroditism when exposed to low levels of atrazine.
Timothy LaSalle: Thirsting for Truth: No "Safe" Level of Atrazine
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Specifically, four herbicides (2,4,5-T; 2,4,5-TP; atrazine; or butylate) and three insecticides (diazinon, phorate, or carbofuran) were associated with reporting gestational diabetes.
WordPress.com News
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The widely used herbicide atrazine can convert male frogs into hermaphrodites.
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While hand-weeding is the most common practice, pre-emergence spraying with atrazine or ametryn will control weeds until the plants have sprouted; subsequently paraquat carefully applied with a shielded spray may be used.
Chapter 37
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The application of the pre-emergence herbicide diuron at 1.6 kg/ha has been recommended; other effective herbicides are atrazine, prometryn and ametryn.
Chapter 31
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The herbicide atrazine, for example, has been shown to chemically "castrate" some male frogs and turn others into females able to lay eggs, according to a March study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
KSDK.com NBC-St. Louis Education
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Specifically, four herbicides (2,4,5-T; 2,4,5-TP; atrazine; or butylate) and three insecticides (diazinon, phorate, or carbofuran) were associated with reporting gestational diabetes.
WordPress.com News
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She has also added a gene to alfalfa that enables it to detoxify the herbicide atrazine.
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The drainage from the enormous mechanized farms of the heartland, and from millions of suburban lawns, is rich with pesticides and fertilizers like atrazine, alachlor, cyanazine, and metolachlor.
Chicagotribune.com - News
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In the spring add atrazine to glyphosate or paraquat to control late emerging downy brome.
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-- Analysis of herbicide degradates (breakdown products of the parent compound) included the finding that 11 percent of water samples had desethylatrazine, 11 percent had acetochlor ESA (ethane sulfonic acid), 27 percent had alachlor ESA, 33 percent had metolachlor ESA and 8 percent had metolachlor OXA (oxanilic acid).
Media Newswire
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Pesticides, such as DDT, atrazine, chlordane and lindane, and industrial by-products like dioxin, furans and PCBs, have been identified as endocrine disruptors.
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atrazine is thought to cause cancer and is banned in some European countries
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He demonstrated that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that chemically castrates and feminizes male amphibians.
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Along with Save the Frogs, it features a rogue's gallery of alleged poisons: atrazine, Roundup, chlorothalonil.
Jon Entine: Frog Day Afternoon: Choose Science Over Politics to Conserve the Endangered Amphibian Population
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A method was developed to determine atrazine and acetochlor in water.
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Based on work done in other laboratories, Hayes' team suspects that atrazine feminizes the frogs by increasing production of an enzyme called aromatase, which converts testosterone to estrogen.
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Yes, there was a large amount of work done during the mid-'90s looking at atrazine, simazine and other triozyde herbicides downstream of food crops and downstream of timber crops.
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Atrazine and simazine are corn herbicides used by growers worldwide.
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The use of pre-emergence herbicides has been suggested: eg atrazine at 1. 5-3 kg/ha to which TCA 5 kg/ha may be added on heavy soils to improve grass control, and chloramben at 3-6. 5 kg/ha.
Chapter 37
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Atrazine is a potent endocrine disrupter that chemically castrates and feminizes amphibians and other wildlife.
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The application of the pre-emergence herbicide diuron at 1.6 kg/ha has been recommended; other effective herbicides are atrazine, prometryn and ametryn.
Chapter 31
