ENVIRONMENT

We May Have Solved the Mystery of the Dying Bees

May 14, 2014 0

By Annalee Newitz For over a decade, a disease called colony collapse disorder has been destroying bee populations worldwide. Because bees pollinate many of our staple crops, their deaths threaten our food supplies. Now, new […]

ENVIRONMENT

Beekeepers Expect “Worst Year for Bees”

January 23, 2013 2

“We’re facing the extinction of a species.” That’s what one Midwest-based large-scale commercial beekeeper told me last week at the annual gathering of the American Honey Producers Association (AHPA). And he meant it. Bee losses […]

HEALTH

Parkinson’s and Pesticides

January 12, 2013 1

Environmental Working Group president Ken Cook often points out that many pesticides that were once liberally sprayed on food crops and considered perfectly safe turn out to be anything but — after farm workers and […]

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