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With pollinators in decline around the world, conservationists turn to traditional farmers for answers
2016-03-01 06:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ensia: In northwestern India, the Himalaya Mountains rise sharply out of pine and cedar forests. The foothills of the Kullu Valley are blanketed with apple trees beginning to bloom. Its a cool spring morning, and Lihat Ram, a farmer in Nashala village, shows me a small opening in a log hive propped against his house. Stout black-and-yellow native honeybees -- Apis cerana -- fly in and out. For centuries, beehives have been part of the architecture of mountain homes here, built into the thick outside...
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Pollinators face extinction, study says
2016-02-27 22:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Bees, birds, butterflies and beetles are among a growing list of pollinator species in jeopardy of global extinction, a United Nations study warns, a trend that could threaten the world's food supply. Beyond the birds and the bees, tens of thousands of species of pollinators that play a significant role in the world's food production and contribute to billions of dollars in food yield are at risk, according to a report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on...
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Study By UN Warns Extinction Danger For Bees, Butterflies, Other Pollinators
2016-02-27 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: A study by United Nations has forewarned that bees, birds, butterflies, and beetles are among a growing list of pollinator species under the threat of global extinction, a trend that could put the world`s food supply at risk. Tens of thousands of species of pollinators like bees, butterflies, flies, moths, wasps, beetles, birds, bats, and other animals that contribute to pollination play a significant role in the world`s food production and contribute to billions of dollars in food yield are at...
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Earth's bees and other pollinators need our help: What can we do?
2016-02-26 14:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: The impending extinction of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators could cost the world hundreds of billions in food crops if nothing is done to stop it, according to a new scientific report from the United Nations. The report is based on the work of scientists around the world. It includes no new research, but draws on scientific studies from scientists working with a number of UN agencies to provide information on biodiversity. Some 124 nations approved the report, written by a body called...
Decline bees, other pollinators, threatens crop output: UN body
2016-02-26 09:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Populations of bees, butterflies and other species important for agricultural pollination are declining, posing potential risks to major world crops, a UN body on biodiversity said Friday. "Many wild bees and butterflies have been declining in abundance, occurrence and diversity at local and regional scales in Northwest Europe and North America," said an assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It said declines had also been...
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