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How Climate Change is Messing with Bees
2015-09-08 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Smithsonian: Bees are vitally important to the health of the planet: The more than 30,000 bee species around the world are the most important group of pollinators for farming and wild plants. But populations are declining due to a variety of factors including human development, pesticides, disease and a changing climate, reports Clayton Aldern for Grist. Figuring out exactly how something so huge as climate change effects bee populations is tricky, but possible. To get the details on why and how this is happening,...
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Monsanto wants to replace the bees they are killing with genetically engineered flying ants
2015-08-31 16:38:33| Chemicals - Topix.net
Ecologists refer to bees and a few other select organisms as keystone species. This term is analogous to the keystone of an arch.
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If All the Bees in the World Die, What Would Happen to Humans?
2015-07-28 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Bees play such a crucial role in our ecosystem. Some even claim if they go extinct, we would be next. Colony Collapse Disorderthe name given to the mass die off in bee populationsis a grave problem. In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that the U.S. honeybee population plummeted by more than 40 percent in the last year. Many groups have called for a global ban on the class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics, which have been linked to the mass die off in bees. President...
Buzz kill: Why no one is happy with Ontario's plan to protect bees
2015-07-17 20:08:16| Agriculture - Topix.net
'Neonic' pesticides help farmers battle bugs, but are toxic to already-beleaguered bees. Ontario tried to fix the problem, Tom Spears explains, but now both parties are feeling stung.
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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