Pollution /Environment ...

ah un site tres interessant fait par des scientifiques qui veulent faire avancer l'etat de choses en ce qui concerne la pollution (emissions des voitures):

http://www.ucsusa.org/

Lice From Fish Farms Killing Wild Salmon

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061002-sea-lice.html

Pollution par des "faux" pesticides?

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061030/full/061030-14.html

oh lala !!

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Des traces de pesticides sur les fruits, légumes et céréales en augmentation

Un nouveau rapport de la Direction Générale de la Santé et de la Consommation montre que le pourcentage de fruits, légumes et céréales, consommés en Europe et contenant des résidus de pesticides, est en augmentation. Selon des données récoltées en 2004, 47 % de ces aliments frais contiennent des restes de pesticides, soit près d’un aliment sur deux vendus, et 5 % dépassent même les limites maximales en vigueur (1). Cette étude est basée sur l’analyse de 60 000 échantillons prélevés à travers l’Union Européenne (UE).

Pour ce qui est de la France plus particulièrement, ce sont 48 % des fruits, légumes et céréales qui sont touchées. Si on regarde plus attentivement les chiffres, on note un léger mieux du côté des légumes. En effet si 34 % d’entre eux présentaient des traces de pesticides en 2004, c’est tout de même 10 % de moins qu’en 2003. Par contre, pour les fruits, le pourcentage de 'contaminés' est en augmentation de plus d’1 %, atteignant les 65,7 % de fruits contenant des traces de pesticides.

A noter que les résidus de pesticides découverts sur ces aliments sont de plus en plus de véritables 'cocktails' chimiques ! En effet, plus de 25 % des aliments végétaux testés contiennent de 2 à 8 pesticides différents. Ainsi, les dernières analyses ont détecté pas moins de 197 pesticides différents dans les échantillons testés, contre 185 en 2003.

Exemple de cette présence exponentielle de pesticides dans notre alimentation, le cas de la chaîne de grande distribution LIDL qui, fin 2005, a été classée plus mauvaise chaîne de supermarché au regard de la présence de résidus de pesticides dans les fruits et les légumes vendus dans les rayons de ses magasins allemands. Si depuis la filiale allemande a pris des mesures pour influer sur cette tendance en annonçant qu’elle vendrait entre autres de la nourriture certifiée QS (2), 18 ONG européennes continuent de demander à la chaîne de réduire sensiblement la contamination de ses produits sur l’ensemble de l’UE.
Cécile Fargue
http://www.univers-nature.com/inf/inf_actualite1.cgi?id=2426

j'ai entendu a la tele que le pire c'est les fraises, les pommes, les salades, les poivrons...

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World faces hottest year ever, as El Niño combines with global warming
By Cahal Milmo
Published: 01 January 2007

A combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system is set to make 2007 the warmest year on record with far-reaching consequences for the planet, one of Britain's leading climate experts has warned.

As the new year was ushered in with stormy conditions across the UK, the forecast for the next 12 months is of extreme global weather patterns which could bring drought to Indonesia and leave California under a deluge.

The warning, from Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, was one of four sobering predictions from senior scientists and forecasters that 2007 will be a crucial year for determining the response to global warming and its effect on humanity.

Professor Jones said the long-term trend of global warming - already blamed for bringing drought to the Horn of Africa and melting the Arctic ice shelf - is set to be exacerbated by the arrival of El Niño, the phenomenon caused by above-average sea temperatures in the Pacific.

Combined, they are set to bring extreme conditions across the globe and make 2007 warmer than 1998, the hottest year on record. It is likely temperatures will also exceed 2006, which was declared in December the hottest in Britain since 1659 and the sixth warmest in global records.

Professor Jones said: "El Niño makes the world warmer and we already have a warming trend that is increasing global temperatures by one to two tenths of a degrees celsius per decade. Together, they should make 2007 warmer than last year and it may even make the next 12 months the warmest year on record."

The warning of the escalating impact of global warming was echoed by Jim Hansen, the American scientist who, in 1988, was one of the first to warn of climate change.

In an interview with The Independent, Dr Hansen predicted that global warming would run out of control and change the planet for ever unless rapid action is taken to reverse the rise in carbon emissions.

Dr Hansen said: "We just cannot burn all the fossil fuels in the ground. If we do, we will end up with a different planet.

"I mean a planet with no ice in the Arctic, and a planet where warming is so large that it's going to have a large effect in terms of sea level rises and the extinction of species."

His call for action is shared by Sir David King, the Government's chief scientific adviser, who said that 2006 had shown that the "discussion is now over" on whether climate change is happening. Writing in today's Independent, Sir David says progress has been made in the past year but it is "essential" that a global agreement on emissions is struck quickly. He writes: "Ultimately, only heads of state, working together, can provide the new level of global leadership we need to steer the world on a path towards a sustainable and prosperous future. We need to remember: action is affordable - inaction is not."

The demands came as the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the United Nations agency that deals with climate prediction, issued a warning that El Niño is already established over the tropical Pacific basin. It is set to bring extreme weather across a swath of the planet from the Americas and south-east Asia to the Horn of Africa for at least the first four months of 2007.

El Niño, or "the Christ child" because it is usually noticed around Christmas, is a weather pattern occurring every two to seven years. The last severe El Niño, in 1997 and 1998, caused more than 2,000 deaths and a worldwide damage bill of more than £20bn.

The WMO said its latest readings showed that a "moderate" El Niño, with sea temperatures 1.5C above average, was taking place which, in the worst case scenario, could develop into an extreme weather pattern lasting up to 18 months, as in 1997-98. The UN agency noted that the weather pattern was already having "early and intense" effects, including drought in Australia and dramatically warm seas in the Indian Ocean, which could affect the monsoons. It warned the El Niño could also bring extreme rainfall to parts of east Africa which were last year hit by a cycle of drought and floods.

Its effect on the British climate is difficult to predict, according to experts. But it will probably add to the likelihood of record-breaking temperatures in the UK.

The return of El Niño

* Aside from the seasons, El Niño and its twin, La Niña, are the two largest single causes of variability in the world's climate from year to year.

Both are dictated by shifts in temperature of the water in the tropical Pacific basin between Australia and South America. Named from the Spanish words for "Christ child" and "the girl" because of their proximity to Christmas, they lead to dramatic shifts in the entire system of oceanic and atmospheric factors from air pressure to currents.

A significant rise in sea temperature leads to an El Niño event whereas a fall in temperature leads to La Niña.

The cause of the phenomenon is not fully understood but in an El Niño "event" the pool of warm surface water is forced eastwards by the loss of the westerly trade winds. The sea water evaporates, resulting in drenching rains over South America, particularly Peru and Ecuador, as well as western parts of the United States such as California.

Parts of the western Pacific, including Indonesia and Australia, suffer drought. The effects can last for anything from a few weeks to 18 months, causing extreme weather as far afield as India and east Africa.

The co-relation with global warming is as yet unclear. Archaeological evidence shows El Niños and La Niñas have been occurring for 15,000 years. But scientists are investigating whether climate change is leading to an increase in their intensity or duration.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2116873.ece

Ca y est.. encore plus des signes du rechauffement climatique:

Un requin qui normallement se trouve pres de l'equateur a cet epoque de l'annee a ete trouve dans les plages de Philadephia....

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/oopa-shark-roo/

Mystere: le niveau de la mer est descendu d'un metre en Australie...



http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/sea-monster-gives-sydney-goosebumps/2007/03/14/1173722523336.html

...c'est qu'il doit être monté d'un mètre ailleurs non ? (comme après un tremblement de terre/tsunami)

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...c'est qu'il doit être monté d'un mètre ailleurs non ? (comme après un tremblement de terre/tsunami)

l'article parle d'un whirpool... .. je ne sais pas comment dire cela en francais.. donc je te cherche une photo:



donc.. s'il y a un whirlpool pres des cotes comme dit l'article... cela veut dire qu'il y un trou par ou l'eau est en train de s'echapper?
Ca devient un vrai mystere....

....vi mais Archimède, il dit que tout ça doit bien aller quelque part

Au sujet des abeilles:

Scientists are thus far stumped as to what is causing the decline, ruling out parasites but leaning towards some kind of new toxin or chemical used in agriculture as being responsible. "Experts believe that the large-scale use of genetically modified plants in the US could be a factor," reports Germany's Spiegal Online.

Bee populations throughout Germany have simultaneously dropped 25% and up to 80% in some areas. Poland, Switzerland and Spain are reporting similar declines. Studies have shown that bees are not dying in the hive, something is causing them to lose their sense of orientation so that they cannot return to the hive. Depleted hives are not being raided for their honey by other insects, which normally happens when bees naturally die in the winter, clearly suggesting some kind of poisonous toxin is driving them away.

"In many cases, scientists have found evidence of almost all known bee viruses in the few surviving bees found in the hives after most have disappeared. Some had five or six infections at the same time and were infested with fungi -- a sign, experts say, that the insects' immune system may have collapsed."

A study at the University of Jena from 2001 to 2004 showed that toxins from a genetically modified maize variant designed to repel insects, when combined with a parasite, resulted in a "significantly stronger decline in the number of bees" than normal.

"According to Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, a professor at the University of Halle in eastern Germany and the director of the study, the bacterial toxin in the genetically modified corn may have "altered the surface of the bee's intestines, sufficiently weakening the bees to allow the parasites to gain entry -- or perhaps it was the other way around. We don't know."

Kaatz was desperate to continue his studies but funding was cut off.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/100407beesdying.htm

et l'article dit aussi que sans les abeilles, les etres humains peuvent disparaitre en 4 ans seulement...

en améliorant ses armes on améliore son ennemi aussi - l'abus des antibiotiques va déjà nous poser un énorme problème...

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en améliorant ses armes on améliore son ennemi aussi - l'abus des antibiotiques va déjà nous poser un énorme problème...

le truc d'antibiotiques c'est deja un grand probleme... T'as pas entendu les histoires des infections nasocomiales dans les hopitaux en France??

Voila!! au sujet des abeilles!!!! (je ne sais plus ou Mina avait mis le premier article sur ce sujet... mais voila.. on suppconne les telephones portables!!!

Citation :

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees
By Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross
Published: 15 April 2007

It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.

They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.

The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives.

The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast.

CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And last week John Chapple, one of London's biggest bee-keepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned.

Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: "There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK."

The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".

No one knows why it is happening. Theories involving mites, pesticides, global warming and GM crops have been proposed, but all have drawbacks.

German research has long shown that bees' behaviour changes near power lines.

Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible cause.

Dr George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: "I am convinced the possibility is real."

The case against handsets

Evidence of dangers to people from mobile phones is increasing. But proof is still lacking, largely because many of the biggest perils, such as cancer, take decades to show up.

Most research on cancer has so far proved inconclusive. But an official Finnish study found that people who used the phones for more than 10 years were 40 per cent more likely to get a brain tumour on the same side as they held the handset.

Equally alarming, blue-chip Swedish research revealed that radiation from mobile phones killed off brain cells, suggesting that today's teenagers could go senile in the prime of their lives.

Studies in India and the US have raised the possibility that men who use mobile phones heavily have reduced sperm counts. And, more prosaically, doctors have identified the condition of "text thumb", a form of RSI from constant texting.

Professor Sir William Stewart, who has headed two official inquiries, warned that children under eight should not use mobiles and made a series of safety recommendations, largely ignored by ministers.

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece

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The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.

(bientôt les abeilles OGM avec GPS intégré ? arf)

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Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".

alors si lui le dit... 2007 + 4... on arrive même pas à 2012
(j'ai lu 15 ans ailleurs ?)

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Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are
placed nearby.

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Equally alarming, blue-chip Swedish research revealed that radiation from mobile phones killed off brain cells, suggesting that today's teenagers could go senile in the prime of their lives.

en plus les suédois, vu ce qu'ils boivent...

bon, bin je vais devoir changer de carrière si c'est avéré

mais ça fout vraiment les jetons - plus que tous les autres trucs alarmistes que tu aies déjà posté, pour moi.

autre article

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/06042007/202/disparition-massive-et-mysterieuse-des-abeilles-aux-etats-unis.html

vu que c'est aux USA actuellement, et les OGM ??

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Enfin, a souligné cette entomologiste, les abeilles trouvées dans les colonies dévastées par ce mystérieux fléau, étaient toutes infectées avec une multitude de micro-organismes, dont un grand nombre est connu pour être responsables de maladies communément liées au stress chez ces insectes.

quoique...

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The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.

(bientôt les abeilles OGM avec GPS intégré ? arf)

arf.. ils sont capables... si cela leur permet a continuer de faire du fric... Imagine l'opportunite: monopole totale de marche des abeilles, tout agriculteur va devoir en achetter s'il veut avoir production de fruits/fleurs/legumes....
Oui.. ca semble fou mais ils sont capables....

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alors si lui le dit... 2007 + 4... on arrive même pas à 2012
(j'ai lu 15 ans ailleurs ?)

euh.. attends.. elles n'ont pas encore totallement disparu les abeilles....
Les fabriquants de telephones vont surement nier tout ces rapports et il va falloir des années avant qu'on preuve sans doute que c'est cela le probleme... donc cela donne encore du temps pour l'erradication totale des abeilles... ca pourrait donc que tout tombe exactement dans ton année 2012...

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en plus les suédois, vu ce qu'ils boivent...

bon, bin je vais devoir changer de carrière si c'est avéré

mais ça fout vraiment les jetons - plus que tous les autres trucs alarmistes que tu aies déjà posté, pour moi.

moi je ne posede pas de telephone portable
Mais oui.. ca fait peur tout cela... Le meme probleme de toujours: on met dans le marché des choses qu'on na pas prouve encore etre "sans consequences" .... et apres on cree des catastrophes (on utilise les gens comme des cochons d'Inde..... C'est pour cela que je n'ai pas achete un telephone portable.. je n'avais pas envie de servir de cochon d'Inde....)

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autre article

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/06042007/202/disparition-massive-et-mysterieuse-des-abeilles-aux-etats-unis.html

vu que c'est aux USA actuellement, et les OGM ??

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Enfin, a souligné cette entomologiste, les abeilles trouvées dans les colonies dévastées par ce mystérieux fléau, étaient toutes infectées avec une multitude de micro-organismes, dont un grand nombre est connu pour être responsables de maladies communément liées au stress chez ces insectes.

quoique...

Oui.. j'avais lu aussi des maladies... le stress peut venir aussi des ondes des telephones non?

Il semble que dernierement il y a qqchose qui deconne tres grave aux USA... j'ai l'impression que les controles ne sont plus ce qu'ils etaient avant. Avant on se sentait tres en securité la bas.... on faisait confiance a l'industrie etc.. mais dernierement je ne sais pas si tu as lu toute une serie des news qui semblent meme 'ridicules'.... de la salmonelle dans le peanut butter.. de la salmonelle dans les epinards de sac.... etc etc.. bref, on a l'impression qu'il n'ya plus de control et que l'hygiene et tout ce qui a ete construit pour proteger les gens est en train de collapser...

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moi je ne posede pas de telephone portable
Mais oui.. ca fait peur tout cela...

ça empêchera pas que ton cerveau reçoive toutes les ondes des antennes... et il faut savoir qu'en France, le rayonnement est 10x plus fort qu'en Suisse ce qui fait que chez moi je reçois le réseau français de l'autre côté du lac (on a des normes plus sévères ! et avec notre topographie si particulière, le nombre de nos antennes suffiraient à couvrir la France )

j'ai 2 portables mais ils sont jamais dans la chambre, je téléphone presque pas avec d'ailleurs (c'est plutôt les SMS), et si c'est le cas j'ai mes écouteurs (pour la musique) comme ça pas besoin de me le coller au cerveau

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ça empêchera pas que ton cerveau reçoive toutes les ondes des antennes... et il faut savoir qu'en France, le rayonnement est 10x plus fort qu'en Suisse

oui mais quand meme... c'est moins nefaste que lorsque tu vis avec le telephone colle a l'oreille (comme font certains)..... et precisement je me bat aussi pour informer ou je peux... car les gens achettent sans se poser des questions (c'est pareil pour les wifi...)

le wifi c'est cool, ça permet de pirater la connexion internet des chinois du dessus sans avoir à payer

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le wifi c'est cool, ça permet de pirater la connexion internet des chinois du dessus sans avoir à payer

Arf.. tu fais comme mon frere?
oui mais bon.. si tu as qu'un seul signal qui traverse.. pas trop grave.. mais en appartement.. il y a combien? un surdosage de toute sorte des signaux dont on ne connait pas les consequences

en appartement tu reçois les ondes des portables.. de l'ordinateur... y'a le radion (ou radium ?) qui peut monter du sol... à part au milieu de la jungle du costa rica tu es bombardée en permanence... sauf si tu te fais un chapeau en alu, comme un fou dans un film

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en appartement tu reçois les ondes des portables.. de l'ordinateur... y'a le radion (ou radium ?) qui peut monter du sol... à part au milieu de la jungle du costa rica tu es bombardée en permanence... sauf si tu te fais un chapeau en alu, comme un fou dans un film

le radon.. ca tu en as surtout dans les maisons (moins dans les appartements car tu es a l'etage)... mais dans des maisons avec du sous sol c'est encore pire... Mais bon ce n'est pas "partout".. il y a des zones ou l'on trouve plein de radon et d'autres ou il y a presque rien


tiens.. sinon regarde ca:

The Murray-Darling basin in south-eastern Australia yields 40 per cent of the country's agricultural produce. But the two rivers that feed the region are so pitifully low that there will soon be only enough water for drinking supplies. Australia is in the grip of its worst drought on record, the victim of changing weather patterns attributed to global warming and a government that is only just starting to wake up to the severity of the position.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article2465960.ece

Il semble que l'Australie est en train de vivre la pire canicule de leur histoire......... Je ne savais pas si mettre cela ici ou dans le post sur le 2012.... :1522: Il ya qqchose qui se prepare.... le rechauffement on le sens deja... et cela avec les abeilles... :1536:

Vrai ou faux? peut etre ils cherchent a blamer "autre chose" que les telephones? (oui car il y a trop d'interet d'argent la bas.... comme avec le petrole et le tabagisme.... )

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Experts may have found what's bugging the bees
A fungus that hit hives in Europe and Asia may be partly to blame for wiping out colonies across the U.S.
By Jia-Rui Chong and Thomas H. Maugh II, Times Staff Writers
April 26, 2007

A fungus that caused widespread loss of bee colonies in Europe and Asia may be playing a crucial role in the mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder that is wiping out bees across the United States, UC San Francisco researchers said Wednesday.

Researchers have been struggling for months to explain the disorder, and the new findings provide the first solid evidence pointing to a potential cause.

But the results are "highly preliminary" and are from only a few hives from Le Grand in Merced County, UCSF biochemist Joe DeRisi said. "We don't want to give anybody the impression that this thing has been solved."

Other researchers said Wednesday that they too had found the fungus, a single-celled parasite called Nosema ceranae, in affected hives from around the country — as well as in some hives where bees had survived. Those researchers have also found two other fungi and half a dozen viruses in the dead bees.

N. ceranae is "one of many pathogens" in the bees, said entomologist Diana Cox-Foster of Pennsylvania State University. "By itself, it is probably not the culprit … but it may be one of the key players."

Cox-Foster was one of the organizers of a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday and Tuesday where about 60 bee researchers gathered to discuss Colony Collapse Disorder.

"We still haven't ruled out other factors, such as pesticides or inadequate food resources following a drought," she said. "There are lots of stresses that these bees are experiencing," and it may be a combination of factors that is responsible.

Historically, bee losses are not unusual. Weather, pesticide exposures and infestations by pests, such as the Varroa mite, have wiped out significant numbers of colonies in the past, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.

But the current loss appears unprecedented. Beekeepers in 28 states, Canada and Britain have reported large losses. About a quarter of the estimated 2.4 million commercial colonies across the United States have been lost since fall, said Jerry Hayes of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in Gainesville.

"These are remarkable and dramatic losses," said Hayes, who is also president of the Apiary Inspectors of America.

Besides producing honey, commercial beehives are used to pollinate a third of the country's agricultural crops, including apples, peaches, pears, nectarines, cherries, strawberries and pumpkins. Ninety percent of California's almond crop is dependent on bees, and a loss of commercial hives could be devastating.

"For the most part, they just disappeared," said Florida beekeeper Dave Hackenberg, who was among the first to note the losses. "The boxes were full of honey. That was the mysterious thing. Usually other bees will rob those hives out. But nothing had happened."

Researchers now think the foraging bees are too weak to return to their hives.

DeRisi and UCSF's Don Ganem, who normally look for the causes of human diseases, were brought into the bee search by virologist Evan W. Skowronski of the U.S. Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center in Maryland.

Dr. Charles Wick of the center had used a new system of genetic analysis to identify pathogens in ground-up bee samples from California. He found several viruses, including members of a recently identified genus called iflaviruses.

It is not known whether these small, RNA-containing viruses, which infect the Varroa mite, are pathogenic to bees.

Skowronski forwarded the samples to DeRisi, who also found evidence of the viruses, along with genetic material from N. ceranae.

"There was a lot of stuff from Nosema, about 25% of the total," Skowronski said. "That meant there was more than there was bee RNA. That leads me to believe that the bee died from that particular pathogen."

If N. ceranae does play a role in Colony Collapse Disorder, there may be some hope for beekeepers.

A closely related parasite called Nosema apis, which also affects bees, can be controlled by the antibiotic fumagillin, and there is some evidence that it will work on N. ceranae as well.

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Ah ptain naaaaaaan

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La marijuana OGM défie les interdits

BRASILIA – La marijuana génétiquement modifiée tient tête à la police mexicaine.

Alors qu’il suffisait de couper les plants pour les détruire, il faut désormais les arracher, sinon ils repoussent. Cette nouvelle marijuana résiste aux pesticides, ce qui rend la fumigation à partir d’hélicoptère inefficace. De plus, elle pousse rapidement, deux mois environ, et a un rendement très élevé. Un terrain de football permet d’en produire autant que 4 ou 5 hectares de la plante originale. En plus, les champs plus petits sont moins facilement décelables. Selon Le Journal du Dimanche, la marijuana OGM contiendrait une concentration très élevée de THC, ce qui la rendrait cinq fois plus puissante. La police brésilienne vient d’en saisir 1,2 tonnes.

arf.. et ca ne m"etonnerait pas si l'on me dit que le tabac qu'on vend est deja un OGM aussi....