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UK faces food security catastrophe as honeybee numbers fall, scientists warn
2014-01-08 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UK faces a food security catastrophe because of its very low numbers of honeybee colonies, which provide an essential service in pollinating many crops, scientists warned on Wednesday. New research reveals that honeybees provide just a quarter of the pollination needed in the UK, the second lowest level among 41 European countries. Furthermore, the controversial rise of biofuels in Europe is driving up the need for pollination five times faster than the rise in honeybee numbers. The research...
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Third of all honeybee colonies in England did not survive winter
2013-06-13 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than a third of all honeybee colonies in England died over the winter, according to figures from the British Beekeepers Association, the worst losses since its winter survival survey began. On average, 33.8 colonies in every 100 perished over the long winter of 2012-13 compared with 16.2% the previous winter. In the south-west of England, more than half of all colonies were wiped out and in the northern part of the country 46.4% didn't survive. In Scotland and Wales, honeybees fared no...
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The Plight of the Honeybee
2013-05-10 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Bees are back in the news this spring, if not back in fields pollinating this summer's crops. The European Union (EU) has announced that it will ban, for two years, the use of neonicotinoids, the much-maligned pesticide group often fingered in honeybee declines. The U.S. hasn't followed suit, though this year a group of beekeepers and environmental and consumer groups sued the EPA for not doing enough to protect bees from the pesticide onslaught. For the last several years scientists have fretted...