Bt-resistant populations of bollworm, Helicoverpa zea, were found in more than a dozen crop fields in Mississippi and Arkansas between 2003 and 2006.
What we’re seeing is evolution in action, said lead researcher Bruce Tabashnik. This is the first documented case of field-evolved resistance to a Bt crop.
Bt crops are so named because they have been [...]
The problems of the past weekend were the last straw for a group of residents, who have decided %26quot;enough is enough and have pushed the North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support Network to call a public meeting on the issue.
As well, the group of residents has a meeting arranged with Waimakariri District mayor Ron Keating _ they [...]
Much of the research effort around MRSA to date has focused primarily on hospitals, said Carmel Hughes, lead review author.
MRSA spreads easily — most commonly via the hands of health care workers — and first-line antibiotics, like penicillin, are ineffective against the organism. Nursing home residents are particularly vulnerable because infection with the bug tends [...]
Local window washers cleaned up their safety skills Friday after an accident killed one worker and seriously injured another last week.
Members of Local 32 BJ held the class to reinforce the danger that exists in this line of work, while instructing workers on what to do in the event of an emergency.
Last week, [...]
IT is a little-known fact that a licence is required to clean windows - even, it seems, among window cleaners themselves.
A new study has revealed that that just one in five of the Capital’s estimated 500 window cleaners comply with the rules.
The city council was today urged to tighten the system, with checks [...]
Two brothers who worked together as window cleaners plunged 47 stories yesterday morning with their scaffold from the roof of an Upper East Side apartment building. One was killed, cut in half by a wooden fence in an alley below, and the other was gravely injured but somehow survived.
The cause had not been determined, the [...]
The British Institute of Cleaning Science has appointed popular and well-respected industry figure Stan Atkins, (MBICSc. MRIPH) as General Manager with effect from October 1st.
Currently Senior Consultant with cleaning %26 hygiene consultancy MBG, Stan brings a wealth of experience of the cleaning industry to his new role. He has been an active member of [...]
Refugio Ramirez has a pioneer spirit, roaming his unfenced ranch, tending to his livestock and enjoying the stomach-dropping views from the cliffs of this wide-open country.
Nearly four decades ago, as an immigrant in Chicago, Ramirez blazed a path that would transform his hometown. While working as a dishwasher at the Congress Plaza Hotel, Ramirez [...]
It is as much a part of Kiwi culture as stealing the dead is with East Cape whanau. We possess an adolescent, anti-authoritarian streak that enjoys pricking the puffery of the pompous, if never quite being sure of time or place.
We recognise all the post-modern symptoms of such yobbishness in our kids behaviour. The binge [...]
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