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Pesticides, food price rises, and national honey bee day
2013-08-21 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Stories about the declining bee population and its effects on the environment trickle through the news cycle nearly every day. To keep track of the latest bee news and make sense of the issues, we're highlighting the major bee stories each week, with analysis from the Guardian's Alison Benjamin, co-author of A World Without Bees, Bees in the City: The Urban Beekeepers' Handbook and Keeping Bees and Making Honey. New pesticide labels will better protect bees and other pollinators What happened:...
Bill Seeks to Halt Bee-Killing Pesticides in U.S
2013-07-29 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Two Congressional Democrats have co-sponsored new legislation called the Save Americas Pollinators Act of 2013 to take emergency action to save the remaining bees in the U.S., and in turn, the U.S. food supply. At issue is the use of toxic insecticides called neonicotinoids. Recent studies suggest that at least four types of these insecticides are a primary cause of the massive decline in bee populations seen in the U.S. in recent years. It is estimated over 10 million beehives been wiped out...
Wired Honeybees Show Harmful Impacts of Pesticides on Navigation
2013-07-29 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Using tiny radar antennae glued to the backs of honeybees, European scientists have found that bees exposed to neonicotinoid pesticides were more likely to become disoriented and separated from their hives. After attaching the small transponders to 200 bees, including some that were fed pesticide-laced syrup, scientists discovered that the exposed bees had difficulty navigating and were unable to retrace the path back to their hives. We find the control bees are just fantastic they use their landscape...
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Pesticides contaminating frogs in California's national parks
2013-07-26 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Pesticides from California's valley farms are collecting in the tissues of a singing treefrog that lives in pristine national parks, including Yosemite and Giant Sequoia, a new study finds. The chemicals include two fungicides never before found in wild frogs, said Kelly Smalling, lead study author and a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research hydrologist. The study was published today (July 26) in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. "Fungicides have been registered for use for...
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EPA Sued by Several Groups for Invasive Species Regulation, Pesticides and Emissions
2013-07-10 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The first ten days of July have been ugly for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is being sued by a variety of organizations for allegedly not protecting the environment enough. Recent lawsuits brought against the EPA assert that the group's regulations on invasive species and pesticides are wanting, and a pending lawsuit contends that the group is not doing enough to regulate pollution form coal mines. Wednesday's news included the EPA being sued by the National Wildlife Federation,...
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