Guardian: When I wrote A World Without Bees to investigate why honeybees were mysteriously disappearing across the US and parts of Europe, one of the conclusions I came to having talked to beekeepers, scientists, farmers and pesticide manufacturers, and waded through piles of academic papers was that we must suspend the use of some neonicotinoid pesticides until we had a better idea of what harm they may be causing our bees.
The European commission has an opportunity to do just that on Friday by voting...