The UK’s controversial pesticide policies have resulted in 36 toxic chemicals banned in the EU being allowed by the government post-Brexit. By Monica Piccinini | The Ecologist The UK is falling even further behind Europe in its efforts to remove… Read More ›
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week released a draft biological evaluation showing the bee-killing insecticide sulfoxaflor is potentially putting 24 species of insects and 94 plant species that depend on insect pollinators in jeopardy of extinction. By Center for… Read More ›
Bee populations are declining dramatically, in part because of pesticides. Here are some actions you can take to help protect bees and other pollinators, on World Bee Day and every other day, too. By Dr. Joseph Mercola | The Defender… Read More ›
By Arjun Walia | Collective Evolution In Brief The Facts:Unnatural sources of electromagnetic seem to be harming not only us, but our bees, trees and other insects. Reflect On:How is so much of this technology able to rollout without appropriate… Read More ›
By Alanna Ketler | Collective Evolution In Brief The Facts:Another harsh chemical has been banned in the European Union, which has been found to harm bees. Reflect On:Is our current method of “modern” agriculture actually an outdated practice? Is it… Read More ›
By Adan Salazar | Infowars.com A man in California documented scores of dead bees found between two cellular towers. In the video, published last month, the man films numerous small honey bees lying dead on the ground in Sierra Madre,… Read More ›
By Confusciusornis | Ancient Code Bees are amazingly complicated, and researchers have found they can execute tasks by using mathematical skills that include counting and deducing which numbers are larger or smaller. In a study to be published in the… Read More ›
By Phillip Schneider | Waking Times In light of growing scientific evidence linking certain insecticides known as neonicotinoid insecticides or neonics to rapidly collapsing bee populations, the European Union voted to place a permanent ban on virtually all use of… Read More ›
By Derrick Broze | Activist Post On Thursday night over 600,000 acres of Houston will be sprayed with controversial chemicals with the potential to kill millions of bees and potentially harm the local population. Houston area health officials are working… Read More ›
Bayer reminded the world that it won’t hesitate to deny scientific conclusions from a study—even if the study is one that was funded by Bayer. By Justin Gardner | The Free Thought Project A large-scale study on neonicotinoid pesticides is… Read More ›
By Vicki Batts | Natural News The decimation of bee populations is a national concern, but beekeepers in the state of Maryland have been hit especially hard by the wave of bee deaths. In 2016 alone, beekeepers in the mid-Atlantic… Read More ›
By Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project It’s official. As tragically revealing as the move might be, the rusty patched bumble bee has now joined the grizzly bear, gray wolf, northern spotted owl, and some 700 others on the… Read More ›
By Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project Having taken a backseat to any number of controversies surrounding the nascent Trump administration, pollinators should be back in the headlines — again painting a tragic portent for the future of the… Read More ›
By Alex Pietrowski | Waking Times Like a ticking time bomb, each year we see more devastation to the world’s bee colonies. Originally called colony collapse disorder, the cause of a decline in bees is now widely attributed to the… Read More ›
Christina Sarich | Waking Times Humans have long thought themselves to be the smartest animals on the planet, but evidence continues to reveal that even with little shared DNA – animals are catching up, and perhaps even surpassing our own… Read More ›
She was robbed at gunpoint huh? Yeah, o.k. And if she really was who gives a shit? Oh wait, millions of morons care. She’s famous for her ass, that’s it. Now that’s talent. Her ass is her contribution to society…~TS… Read More ›
Bees suffering from aluminum poisoning. Gee you think it has something to do with the shit being sprayed in our skies?…~TS By Cassius Kamarampi | Era of Wisdom Bees have just been added to the endangered species list in the… Read More ›
No bees, no food. The elite would love for us to have to rely on them and their GMO crap in order to eat…~TS Kind of makes you wonder who is really being sprayed like bugs here… now with the… Read More ›
By Derrick Broze | Activist Post A new study provides further evidence that a commonly used insecticide is causing harm to the honey bee population, specifically the male drone honey bees. A new study published on Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of… Read More ›
By Alex Pietrowski | Waking Times Researchers are feverishly working to understand the global die off of the world’s bee species, and have linked colony collapse disorder to the use of neonicotinoid pesticides along with other common agrichemicals. As it… Read More ›
Bayer, Monsanto, and Syngenta are effectively “shaping new pollinator ‘protection’ plans nationwide that do little to protect bees, but a lot to protect industry profits.” By Lauren McCauley | CommonDreams To spread public awareness about how bee colony collapse is… Read More ›
By Derrick Broze | Activist Post Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. has announced that they will eliminate the use of a class of insecticides which have been linked to negative effects on pollinator populations, including bees and butterflies. After reviewing possible threats… Read More ›
Bill moves on to the French Senate By Julie Fidler | Natural Society France gets it when it comes to pesticides. Lawmakers in the country just approved plans to totally ban some widely used pesticides blamed for harming bees, going… Read More ›
After Entomologist Jonathan Lundgren began to study how neonicotinoid insecticides affect bees and other beneficial insects. His research and work travel fell under intense scrutiny and he was suspended for violating agency protocols. By Dan Gunderson | MPR News A… Read More ›
By Derrick Broze | The Anti Media On Wednesday, a researcher with the United States Department of Agriculture filed a whistleblower complaint alleging his supervisors suspended him in retaliation for his research on pesticides. The complaint follows calls for investigation… Read More ›
Environmentalists and agribusiness are waging a pitched battle over the use of pesticides. By Reynard Loki | AlterNet “There is one masterpiece, the hexagonal cell, that touches perfection. No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of… Read More ›
Ecologists refer to bees and a few other select organisms as keystone species. This term is analogous to the keystone of an arch. Remove the wedge-shaped stone at the top, and the entire structure collapses. Bees are a keystone… Read More ›