Green Options » flatworm http://greenoptions.com/tag/flatworm Posts tagged 'flatworm' Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:20:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Popular US Farm Chemical = Death to Frogs http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/31/popular-us-farm-chemical-death-to-frogs/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/31/popular-us-farm-chemical-death-to-frogs/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:20:00 +0000 Meg Hamill http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/31/popular-us-farm-chemical-death-to-frogs/ A new report shows that atrazine, the second-most widely used agricultural herbicide in America, poses a serious threat to amphibians.

For a long time now, I’ve been hearing about the worrisome disappearance of amphibians around the world.  One third of amphibian populations on Planet Earth are threatened with extinction.  A new study finds that atrazine, the second most widely used farm herbicide in the country, is partly responsible for this decline.

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