Neonicotinoids: A Second Silent Spring?

A New Report Shows Widespread Water Contamination from the Insecticide Known to Harm Bees

While most people associate neonicotinoid insecticides with their devastating impacts on bees and other pollinators, a new report shines light, for the first time on the full scope of this unrecognized threat to our waters, with toxic effects that can harm entire food chains and ecosystems. In fact, according to the report from the Center for Food Safety, neonicotinoids were found in half of U.S. streams sampled—raising the alarm that we are approaching an ecological crisis on par with that of DDT in the 1960s.