November 26, 2014
News & Features
LEAD: Feliciana Flores grimaced as the needle slipped into a vein and her blood filled a vacuum tube. But 3-year-old Sergio Flores was unafraid. ''No voy a llorar,'' he said. ''I won't cry.''
LEAD: ARMIES of bugs and microbes, their powers enhanced in some cases by genetic engineering, are being unleashed in fields and laboratories in a widening effort to control destructive agricultural pests without resorting to chemical pesticides.
LEAD: Farmers soon may have an environmentally safe alternative to pesticides: swarms of tiny wasps trained seek out and destroy destructive caterpillars.
LEAD: THIS spring, as in every spring of recent years, millions of homeowners in search of the picture-perfect lawn are applying millions of pounds of chemical pesticides to their property. But even as the totals reach new records, officials and environmentalists are issuing new warnings about the...
LEAD: A pioneer conservationist is about to become Brazil's new Secretary of Environment.
LEAD: AFTER more than three decades of peril from pesticide pollution and destruction of its habitat, the bald eagle has made a comeback, and Federal officials are considering removing it from the endangered species list.
LEAD: WHEN President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the first farm subsidy law on May 12, 1933, he promised it was a temporary measure. At a time when people were hungry, he remarked, the Government had no business propping up prices by paying farmers to hold back their harvests. Now, nearly 60 years...
LEAD: A VIRUS shows promise in controlling gypsy moths, which threaten trees across the country, the Agriculture Department says.
LEAD: ARIF JAMAL, an agronomist and pesticide specialist, had traveled from Khartoum to tell the story haunting him since droves of animals were killed last August in the Dinder wildlife reserve in the Sudan.
LEAD: As warm weather approaches and the risk of exposure to Lyme disease increases, health experts say they are studying ways to control the tick species that spreads it, but many questions remain.
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