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| Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. US EPA unveils new pesticide label to protect bees. The EPA unveiled Thursday a new pesticide label that prohibits the use of some pesticide products where bees are present, a step to help with the sharp decline in recent years of the insect vital to pollinating crops and producing honey. Des Moines Register, Iowa. Growing up with pesticides. Long-term studies of the effects of pesticides and other environmental chemicals on the very young brain are coming up with worrisome results. Science [Subscription Required] Rising seas. As the planet warms, the sea rises. Coastlines flood. What will we protect? What will we abandon? How will we face the danger of rising seas? National Geographic Magazine Deformed insects blamed on pesticide use. Researchers from Melbourne University found the non-biting midge, a freshwater insect sampled near the Ovens River in north-east Victoria, had deformities including fused, missing or additional teeth as a result of the chemicals used during intense tobacco farming in the area in the late 1980s. Melbourne Age, Australia. Fisheries and Oceans Canada looking into claims of sick herring. Fisheries and Oceans Canada is trying to confirm reports from an independent biologist that herring around northern Vancouver Island have a disease that is causing bleeding from their gills, bellies and eyeballs. Victoria Times Colonist, British Columbia. Study finds no reproductive health effects from water disinfection byproducts. Clean, refreshing tap water contains low levels of byproducts that are created when municipalities treat water to kill harmful microbes. A new toxicological study sheds some light about the long-term effects of exposure to these chemicals. Chemical & Engineering News Ecuador's president abandons no-drilling plan. President Rafael Correa said Thursday that he has abandoned a unique and ambitious plan to persuade rich countries to pay Ecuador not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon rainforest preserve. Associated Press California fracking bill under fire from environmentalists. State Sen. Fran Pavley's bill to regulate fracking in California was always going to face a fight from the oil industry. But now it's under attack from some of Pavley's most ardent supporters – environmentalists. San Francisco Chronicle, California. Heatwave regions set to double in size by 2020 as globe warms: Study. The areas of the world hit by heatwaves are set to double in size by 2020 and continue to grow in coming decades, as heat-trapping greenhouse gases warm the global climate, scientists in Germany and Spain said on Thursday. Reuters Japan's nuclear clean-up: Costly, complex and at risk of failing. The most ambitious radiation clean-up ever attempted has proved costly, complex and time-consuming since the Japanese government began it more than two years in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. It may also fail. Reuters Nagasaki bomb maker offers lessons for Fukushima cleanup. Hanford Engineer Works produced the 20 pounds of plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It’s among the most toxic nuclear waste sites and the place Japan is turning to for help dealing with melted reactors in Fukushima. Bloomberg News Dead zone showing up in Green Bay. Lake Michigan's Green Bay is developing a "dead zone" similar to sections of Lake Erie and the Gulf of Mexico where there's so little oxygen that few if any fish – or even tiny critters such as insects and worms – can survive, scientists said Thursday. Associated Press Environmental nightmare found at pot grow in backcountry southeast of San Jose. A marijuana cultivation operation that resulted in a host of highly toxic chemicals being washed into a tributary of Coyote Creek was cleared out this week by authorities searching deep in the backcountry southeast of San Jose. San Jose Mercury News, California. EPA to inspect Colorado milling site. Mining inspectors have found heavy pollution from mercury and arsenic inside an unpermitted gold mill on the west side of Mancos, Colorado. It’s “one of the uglier cases of using hazardous chemicals and illegal milling” that state mining regulators have seen, said Julie Murphy, a lawyer for the state Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety. Cortez Journal, Colorado. Protestors demand pollution fixes at Omaha coal plant. One hundred million dollars is how much in health care costs the north Omaha community says they've paid out due to pollution from the nearby power plant. Heart attacks, asthma problems and death -- that is what is on the minds of protestors demanding change. Fox News USDA trip moves US closer to accepting Chinese chicken. Despite years of food safety scandals surrounding China and another recent bird flu outbreak there, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is moving closer to opening the U.S. market to Chinese-processed chicken by sending two of its senior food safety officials to Beijing next week for a bilateral meeting on the subject. Politico Soda drinking tied to kids' behavior problems. Children who drink soda tend to score slightly higher on scales that measure aggressive behavior than kids who don't drink the carbonated beverages, according to a new study. Reuters Health Little change in US state obesity rates; highest in South and Midwest. Adult obesity still isn't budging, the latest government survey shows. The national telephone survey found 13 states with very high rates of obesity last year. Overall, the proportion of U.S. adults deemed obese has been about the same for years now. 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