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Buying Organic Will At Least Help Save Some Bugs, According to Experts
According to a new study, pesticides and intensive agriculture are causing large-scale insect deaths.
The Beekeeper Who Makes Synth Music With His Bee Colonies
Bioni Samp translates bee behaviors and sounds into electronic music to help raise awareness of the ecological issues threatening them.
New Field Tests Find These Pesticides Are Harming Bees
It’s long been suspected this was bad for bees.
Minnesota Is Cracking Down on Pesticides in Order to Save Bees
Last week, Governor Mark Dayton ordered the implementation of a range of protections that are intended to protect the lives of bees.
Honey Bee Extinction Will Change Life As We Know It
If bees disappear, so will all of life's modern luxuries.
Humans Are Doing a Remarkable Job of Killing the Species That Feed Us
Pollinators like bees, hummingbirds, bats, and butterflies help to produce 75 percent of crops — but human activities are threatening many species with extinction, according to a new UN report.
This Pesticide Might Be Killing off Bees
The US Environmental Protection Agency has released the first of four assessments into the insecticides that environmental groups say are linked to a dramatic decline in bee populations.
Protesters Are Going to Hit the Streets This Weekend in Over 400 Cities to March Against Monsanto
The agrochemical behemoth's products have been linked to bee colony collapse and cancer in humans.
Conservation Groups Say a White House Plan to Save the Bees Doesn't Go Far Enough
The plan calls for bee habitat restoration and research into pesticides linked to bee colony collapse — but not a ban on their use.
Bees Might Be Addicted to Nicotine-Like Insecticides That Are Killing Them
Two new scientific studies reveal not only that wild bees might reproduce less frequently when exposed to certain insecticides — but they might also become addicted to the chemicals.
This Former Electronics Smuggler Is Now a Seed-Saver
Chemical pesticides devastated Matthew Dillon's Nebraska farming family: his father died of a disease Dillon believes was a result of toxic exposure, and Dillon himself never grew again after an endocrine disorder he developed at the age of 12. Today...