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8/5/2013
You’ve probably heard that
honeybees in America had a particularly difficult time this winter, with hive losses surpassing 50 percent in some areas. Colony collapse disorder or CCD is blamed for doubling or tripling the usual rate of winter hive ...
7/5/2013
According to a new survey of America's beekeepers, almost a third of the country's
honeybee colonies did not make it through the winter.That's been the case, in fact, almost every year since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began this ...
1/5/2013
One of every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators, especially bees, for a successful harvest. And in the past several months, a scramble in California's almond groves has given the world a taste of what may lie in store for ...
3/4/2013
Domesticated bees do not replace declining wild insects as agricultural pollinators About | Rainforests | Fish | News | For kids | Madagascar | Photos | Other languages | TCS Journal
Domesticated bees do not replace declining ...
28/3/2013
Syngenta and Bayer, top producers of the pesticides blamed for a sharp fall in bee populations around the world, have proposed a plan to support bee health to try to forestall a European Union ban on the products.
EU governments failed ...
27/3/2013
Widely used pesticides have been found in new research to block a part of the brain that bees use for learning, rendering some of them unable to perform the essential task of associating scents with food. Bees exposed to two kinds of pesticide ...
15/3/2013
In my foreword to the 50th anniversary edition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring last year, I described my mixed feelings about being asked to introduce her groundbreaking work on the fragile relationship between humans and the natural world for ...
14/3/2013
When I wrote A World Without Bees to investigate why
honeybees were mysteriously disappearing across the US and parts of Europe, one of the conclusions I came to – having talked to beekeepers, scientists, farmers and pesticide manufacturers, and ...
28/2/2013
The decline of wild bees and other pollinators may be an even more alarming threat to crop yields than the loss of
honeybees, a worldwide study suggests, revealing the irreplaceable contribution of wild insects to global food ...
25/1/2013
The European Commission is considering law to ban pesticides linked to the decline of bees, a spokesman said on Friday.
A report from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) earlier this month said three widely-used pesticides made by ...
29/3/2012
Scientists have been alarmed and puzzled by declines in bee populations in the United States and other parts of the world. They have suspected that pesticides played a part, but to date their experiments have yielded conflicting, ambiguous ...
6/9/2011
From the flat roof of a brick building in Berlin‘s Kreuzberg district, the German capital looks like a concrete jungle. Apartment blocks, churches, and office buildings dominate the panorama. But Erika Mayr thinks this spot is the ideal habitat ...
7/8/2011
On a rainy, windswept summer's afternoon I find myself on the banks of the river Thames in Barking, east London, with a tape measure in hand, adjudicating at a Guinness world record attempt. I have been asked to measure the length, height and ...
29/7/2011
Among the wildflowers and native grasses in the garden atop Chicago's City Hall stand two beehives where more than 100,000 bees come and go in patterns more graceful, but just as busy, as the traffic on the street 11 stories below.
The ...
22/6/2011
Honeybee populations declined by 13.6% over the winter, according to a survey of beekeepers across England. Losses were most severe in the north-east, where the survey recorded a loss rate of 17.1%.
Experts worry that the declines will ...
9/5/2011
Spring is here and if you look around, you'll see lots of flowers -- and hopefully, lots of bees, too. Those bees are hard at work collecting nectar and pollen to feed their growing hive of sisters. At the same time, they're pollinating flowers, ...
25/4/2011
Ajith, a nine-year old boy from Badiyadukka village in the southern Indian state of Kerala, waits patiently for his mother to return from the market and take him to the toilet. His bones are so deformed, he is totally immobile.
In ...
29/12/2010
Viruses that could play a role in the recent decline in
honeybee colonies may be spreading through flower pollen, new research finds.
What's more, a number of wild pollinators, such as bumblebees, yellowjackets, and wasps, can also ...
16/12/2010
Among the images that Sunday supplements start publishing to sum up 2010, I suspect there will be one missing. One that, for me, sums up a year of continued and frightening environmental degradation and the looming prospect of severe food ...
7/9/2010
Scientists have been buzzing for years about the dwindling number of bees and linking that to less pollination, but a new Canadian study suggests the decline could also be blamed on climate change.
James Thomson, a scientist with the ...
17/8/2010
Bees in urban and suburban settings have a richer, healthier diet than bees in farmland settings, say researchers.
Honeybee hives from 10 National Trust sites were studied in an attempt to assess the link between bee health and the ...
7/6/2010
A colony of honeybees at the US Department of Agriculture's research laboratory. Photograph: Haraz Ghanbari/AP
Beekeeper Eric Olson has lost so many bees in the past few years, he's had to ...
24/5/2010
Honeybee numbers in the UK dropped again over the winter, though the rate of decline appears to have slowed slightly despite the harsh weather.
In an encouraging note, the number of hives has doubled in three years to an estimated ...
2/5/2010
Disturbing evidence that
honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter.The decline of the country's estimated 2.4 ...
5/8/2009
People living in urban areas are being encouraged to consider keeping bees in gardens, on roofs or on balconies to help reverse population decline.
Conservation watchdog Natural England wants more homeowners to install hives and grow ...