Alarm as pesticides spur rapid decline of US bird species
by Valerie Yurk in Washington from Environment | The Guardian on (#56R3S)
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Popular pesticides are causing bird species to decline at an alarming rate in the US, adding fuel to a 50-year downward trend in bird biodiversity, a new report has found.
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