Children's Health Defense By Pamela Ferdinand
Key findings:
- Pesticides — including 10 banned in the European Union (EU) due to health concerns — were detected in every cloud sample above France.
- Two samples exceeded Europe’s drinking water safety limit.
- Clouds carried not just pesticides but also emerging contaminants and new breakdown products.
- Most pollution came from long-range pesticide drift, not local farms.
- At any given time, French clouds may hold 6 to 139 tons of pesticides.
Pesticides banned years ago in the EU are drifting through the skies and turning up in clouds above France, raising concerns about how long these toxins persist and how far they can travel, with potentially harmful global health impacts, according to a pathbreaking new study.
The research, published on Sept. 8 in Environmental Science & Technology, is the first to detect dozens of agricultural chemicals — including insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and other substances — suspended in cloud water droplets.
That means pesticides not only linger in the environment but also move through the atmosphere and fall back to Earth in rain or snow, sometimes at levels exceeding European safe drinking water limits, the research suggests…
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