How to Protect the Environment? Pesticides

Pesticides

Pesticides are widely used in the modern agriculture system. Most of the developed countries are using tones of pesticides on yearly basis for the production of different types of agricultural products. On one had that pesticides can keep crops and vegetables secure from the threat of pests, on the other hand, it has become a matter of concern to the environment and health protection agencies throughout the globe about the negative effects of pesticides on human beings and their surrounding environment.

Definition and introduction to the pesticides: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/about/index.htm

This is the link for the United States Environmental Protection Agency in which provides accurate and reliable information on pesticides. This page covers a broad range of topics on pesticides such as the difference between pesticides and pests, household products that contain pesticides, the risks and benefits of pesticides, pesticide control devices, and other related topics. Overall, a very informative page on getting introduced to the pesticides.

Natural News webpage: http://www.naturalnews.com/pesticides.html

This website offers a gigantic amount of information related to the pesticides in the form of research studies, experiments, interviews, and reports which are conducted by different institutions on the negative effects of pesticides.

Pesticides as water pollutants: http://www.fao.org/docrep/w2598e/w2598e07.htm

This link is apparently a chapter of a book in the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) website which discusses the historical development of pesticides as well as its effects, management, and control.

Using Pesticides safely: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health/safely.htm

This link gets you to the website of the United States Environment Protection Agency (EPA) which provides several valuable documents/reports on securing yourself from the pesticides. The reports which are in the pdf formats, offer precautious and essential information on controlling pests and pesticides, protecting household, protecting pets, protecting kids, as well as protecting garden.

Citizen’s Guide to Pest Control and Pesticide Safety: http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/Publications/Cit_Guide/citguide.pdf

This pdf book provides a huge amount of information on pesticide that can help students grab a thorough understanding of pesticides.

Activity

Household Chemicals:

http://extension.psu.edu/ipm/schools/educators/curriculum/homegarden/householdchem

The above link is an activity for students to understand about the risks of using pesticides and chemicals that are provided in detail.