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Marijuana pesticide contamination becomes health concern as legalization spreads.
Experts warn that unwelcome chemicals, including pesticides, may be tagging along with THC, marijuana's primary mind-bending ingredient, and threatening the health of marijuana users.
Hurricane outlook: Another busy Atlantic season.
Get ready for another busy hurricane season – maybe an unusually wild one, federal forecasters say, with a 70 percent chance that this year will be more active than an average hurricane season. Last year was the third-busiest on record with 19 named storms.
Drugged horses slipping through Canada's ‘inadequate’ food system.
The horse “passport” Canada relies on to keep toxic meat off dinner tables around the world is open to fraud and error, a Star investigation has found, confirming the findings of an international audit.
New rules for labeling meat go into effect in US.
Shoppers in the U.S. will soon have more information about where their meat comes from after new federal labeling rules went into effect Thursday.
EU bans three pesticides harmful to bees.
The European Commission said Friday that it will ban for two years beginning in December pesticides blamed for killing the bees that pollinate food and fruit crops.
German beer brewers foaming over fracking.
The fight over fracking in Germany has taken an unexpected turn: German breweries are now warning that the controversial method of extracting natural gas from rock layers deep in the earth would affect their ability to brew the best beer.
How pesticides pushed cockroaches into rapid evolution.
In the 1980s, manufacturers began making cockroach baits that combined sweet glucose with deadly insecticides. By 1993, many cockroach populations somehow developed an aversion to the bait. Now, 20 years later, scientists finally understand how the roaches beat these traps.
US senators push for safer chemicals.
A bill unveiled by Sens. Frank Lautenberg and David Vitter this week would give the Environmental Protection Agency new authority to take action on dangerous chemicals and require more scrutiny of chemicals before they reach the market. That would expand the current law, which allows EPA to require safety testing only after there is evidence that a chemical is dangerous.
Racing the clock and a storm: A way of life in tornado alley.
In this breeding ground of Oklahoma tornadoes, people prepare for the season. They develop family plans, hang on the words of meteorologists, and, in places like Moore, become accustomed to the Saturday noontime testing of emergency sirens.
Higher emissions linked to coal-fired power plants in Texas and other states.
After years of declining greenhouse gas emissions, Texas and other states reported sharply higher levels of carbon dioxide in 2012 as electric generating plants began to use more coal when natural gas prices began to rise, according to a study released Thursday.

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