cartwatch beneath our feet by charity isely to be in a position to change the world - not just study it." the soil beneath our feet is home to a different position to change the world or put another the creatures responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure of the soil that grows our food and helps stabilize our climate and largely unexplored threats they face is review to assess the harm pesticides present to soil-dwelling invertebrates concludes that “pesticides of all types pose a clear hazard!" published in frontiers in environmental science studies assessing pesticide impacts on 275 only included non-target organisms and excluded pesticides currently banned in the need to quantify pesticide risk to soil-dwelling is the only terrestrial invertebrate the agency an insect housed in artificial hives with neither similar behaviors nor routes of exposure compared to soil-dwelling invertebrates which pesticide toxicity to all terrestrial invertebrates is estimated is one that rarely encounters the place its distant relatives like soil-dwelling creatures call home commonly employed for neonicotinoids the most widely used class of insecticides in are applied directly to the soil or as seed metabolites can persist in the environment for methods increasing pesticide contamination of soil include mitigation practices intended to anti-drift substances added to formulas resulting in an estimated reduction of 60 percent of the ecosystem services that soil- by the united nations food and agriculture organization identified the overuse of chemical impactful driver of these losses over the past what you can do natural grocers® | 27
