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Vital to food output, bees and other pollinators at risk
2016-02-26 09:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Bees and other pollinators face increasing risks to their survival, threatening foods such as apples, blueberries and coffee worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, the first global assessment of pollinators showed on Friday. Pesticides, loss of habitats to farms and cities, disease and climate change were among threats to about 20,000 species of bees as well as creatures such as birds, butterflies, beetles and bats that fertilize flowers by spreading pollen, it said. "Pollinators are...
ATCs Environmental Commitment Aims to Benefit Pollinators
2015-12-07 20:23:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Seeding along the Oak Leaf Trail bike path in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, earlier last month will provide native ground cover for urban wildlife and eventually attract diminishing populations of pollinators. read more
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Protecting pollinators and the use of neonicotinoids
2015-07-30 23:48:08| PortlandOnline
Practices for protecting bees, birds, and butterflies in Portland's parks, gardens & natural areas
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White House Issues Plan for Pollinators
2015-05-20 16:51:03| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, government relations representative, National Farmers Union On Tuesday, May 19, the White Houses Pollinator Health Task Force released the National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators. The strategy includes: calls for additional funds for pollinator health research, increased and improved pollinator habitat through conservation programs, enhanced management of
Dangerous Honeybee Diseases Jump to Wild Pollinators
2015-05-07 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Ever since it was first noticed in 2006 that America's honeybees were dying en masse, the spotlight has been on these essential pollinators. It was quickly revealed that not only US honeybees, but entire global populations were in trouble, with troubling declines in Europe and even Australia. Now a new investigation has revealed that a suite of diseases that once exclusively affected domestic honeybees has moved on to infect wild bees, such as the common bumblebee, as well. That's at least according...
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