Fate of Current-use Pesticides in the Canadian Atmosphere

• Main Author: Hayward, Stephen
• Other Authors: Wania, Frank
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: pesticides; air sampling; atmospheric fate; environmental fate; 0542; Arctic; British Columbia; Canada
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/30042

Across Canada, and around the world, very large amounts of pesticides are produced and applied to agricultural crops each year. Although pesticide usage is declining, they are still a necessary part of industrial agriculture. Numerous pesticides have been quantified in the atmosphere, at high levels...