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Climate change is killing bees

2015-07-10 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Bees are having a really hard time right now. For about a decade, they`ve been dying off at an unprecedented rate - up to 30 percent per year, with a total loss of domesticated honeybee hives in the United States worth an estimated $2 billion. At first, no one knew why. But as my colleague Tom Philpott has reported extensively, in the last few years scientists have accumulated a compelling pile of evidence pointing to a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids. These chemicals are widely used...

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