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With pollinators in decline around the world, conservationists turn to traditional farmers for answers
2016-03-01 06:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ensia: In northwestern India, the Himalaya Mountains rise sharply out of pine and cedar forests. The foothills of the Kullu Valley are blanketed with apple trees beginning to bloom. Its a cool spring morning, and Lihat Ram, a farmer in Nashala village, shows me a small opening in a log hive propped against his house. Stout black-and-yellow native honeybees -- Apis cerana -- fly in and out. For centuries, beehives have been part of the architecture of mountain homes here, built into the thick outside...
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US pending home sales decline in January
2016-02-29 17:34:24| Real Estate - Topix.net
Fewer Americans signed contracts to buy homes in January, as the recent hot streak appears to have been curbed by a shortage of properties for sale and colder weather. The National Association of Realtors said that its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index fell 2.5 percent to 106 in January.
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Decline of bees poses potential risks to major crops, says UN
2016-02-26 11:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Populations of bees, butterflies and other species important for agricultural pollination are declining, posing potential risks to major world crops, a UN body on biodiversity said Friday. Many wild bees and butterflies have been declining in abundance, occurrence and diversity at local and regional scales in Northwest Europe and North America, said an assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It said declines had also been detected...
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Decline bees, other pollinators, threatens crop output: UN body
2016-02-26 09:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Populations of bees, butterflies and other species important for agricultural pollination are declining, posing potential risks to major world crops, a UN body on biodiversity said Friday. "Many wild bees and butterflies have been declining in abundance, occurrence and diversity at local and regional scales in Northwest Europe and North America," said an assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It said declines had also been...
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Ozone does not necessarily promote decline of natural ecosystems
2016-02-26 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Environmental scientists at the University of Virginia have found that surface ozone, an abundant chemical known to be toxic to many species of vegetation and to humans, does not necessarily inhibit the productivity of natural ecosystems. "This is a rare piece of good news in the ozone and ecology story," said Manuel Lerdau, an ecologist who, along with graduate student Bin Wang, post-doctoral fellow Jacquelyn Shuman and Professor Hank Shugart, published their findings this week in the Nature journal...
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