Wild bee decline is closely associated with the advance of intensive farming and habitat loss, a new study shows. It follows an earlier paper that linked 'delayed action' decline of wild bees to exposure to pesticides including fungicides - previously considered 'bee-safe'.
… 2015 News Farming Health Toxics Science Bees Biodiversity USA … that linked 'delayed action' decline of wild bees to exposure to pesticides including … - previously considered 'bee-safe'. Native bees are on the decline in some of the major …
Bee 'colony collapse disorder' cannot be ended by easy technofixes, writes Allan Stromfeldt Christensen. The real problem is the systematic abuse of bees in vast industrial monocultures, as they are trucked or flown thousands of miles from one farm to the next, treated with insecticides and antibiotics, and fed on 'junk food'.
… The real problem is the systematic abuse of bees in vast industrial monocultures, as they … have suggested in various ways that if honeybees go the way of the dodo bird, so do us … situation. First off is the fact that honeybees are used to pollinate about one-third of …
The True Cost Accounting in Food and Farming conference was remarkable - star speakers ... fine food, drink and music ... even an impromptu Panto performance. In short, writes Sharon Garfinkel, it was an inspiration to all who attended.
… you know what's the value of the services the bees deliver without ever having received a …
A USDA study shows that a GM alfalfa has gone wild in alfalfa-growing parts of the West. This may explain GMO contamination incidents that have cost US growers and exporters millions of dollars - and it exposes the failure of USDA's 'coexistence' policy for GMOs and traditional crops.
… production or transport. Transgenes spread by bees could contaminate crops However, the … the Roundup Ready gene was being spread by bees, which are known to cross-pollinate …
An intensive study of the flora of one meadow in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado over 39 years reveals a consistent long term pattern of change: first flowers 6 days per decade earlier, last flowers 3 days per decades later.
… year. The season of flowers - that feast for bees and butterflies, and a signal for … were available for hummingbirds and bumble bees. So he started counting flowers about …
Teaching children about nature, and about how our economies meet our needs and impact on nature, is now essential.
… They can sting without dying, sir, not like bees!” “Why would it sting me? In late summer … of wasps and most are pollinators just like bees. There are even some beautiful flowers – …
Farming today is well on the way to becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the agro-chemical-biotech industry, writes Colin Tudge. Defra and the European Commission are all too keen to make it so, reflecting the interests of an agro-oligarchy obsessed with profits and growth at all costs. But there is an alternative. Join the 'real farming' agrarian renaissance ...
… other hand, the presenter acknowledged, honey bees are having a rough time, and neonics …
If it wasn't climate change, was the real purpose of the Number 10 meeting of Theresa May's advisors and President Trump's environmental transition supremo Myron Ebell to plan the post-Brexit deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it looks, writes Georgina Downs - and we had better begin now to fight for our health, wildlife and environment.
… these farm chemicals to either human health, bees, or the wider environment. [3] An … on this day and age. I also see loads of dead bees!!!" Charlotte Davis: "As a teenager I …
Campaigners fear that the abolition of DECC, the department of energy and climate change, indicates that climate will take a low priority in Theresa May's policy agenda. Meanwhile the pro-fracking, pro-nuclear Andrea Leadsom is in charge of environment department Defra.
Dis-May-ed! DECC scrapped, Leadsom to run Environment Oliver Tickell | 14th July 2016 News Politics UK Energy Climate Change Brexit Economics leadsom-cut.jpg Campaigners fear that the abolition of …
However much you think nature is worth, it's a lot more, writes Neil Nightingale. According to the BBC's 'Earth Index', published today in the world's financial press, water alone is worth as much as the entire global economy, and a single beaver's landscape and wetland management clocks in at $120,000 a year.
… they are quite staggering. For example, bees and other pollinators provide services to …
The EU's 'rapporteur state' on glyphosate, Germany, has recommended re-approval of the herbicide with its daily intake increased by 67%, write Drs Nancy Swanson and Mae Wan Ho. The verdict is based on a re-assessment carried out by Monsanto and a consortium of chemical companies, based on unpublished industry studies. It should be rejected outright.
… organs, and no unacceptable effect on bees. Therefore any risks are within …
Just as Sir Nicholas Stern’s report in October 2006 put a price on the effects of climate change, a new report by the UN has begun to cost out the threat of failing to conserve the world’s biodiversity – a cool £40 billion annually, and rising.
… that coffee farmers can value pollination by bees at $361 a hectare, and that areas of …
Thirty years ago today, Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, released toxic gases that killed 3,787 people and injured over half a million, writes Vijay Prashad. The site is still contaminated, victims remain uncompensated, and the area suffers from a high rate of serious birth defects. Yet UC's CEO evaded justice, to die in a Florida nursing home this year at the age of 92.
Bhopal 30 years on - justice evaded, but the fight goes on Vijay Prashad | 3rd December 2014 Comment India USA Law Toxics Corporations bhopal-union_carbide_cut.jpg Thirty years ago today, Union …
Fire is an essential part of the life-cycle of the forests of the American West, writes George Wuerthner, and the complex, biodiverse habitat that burning creates sustains hundreds of species that cannot survive without it. So please - no more talk of forests 'recovering' after fire - OK?
… the ground, they are invaded by wood-living bees and wasps that will pollinate the new …
The US Supreme Court has denied organic and GMO-free farmers their day in Court against Monsanto - leaving them unable to challenge the company's patents or seek redress for GMO seed contamination.
… "First Monsanto claimed we had too many bees and that we were at fault for the …
This Tuesday voters in Oregon and Colorado will have the chance to strike a decisive blow for consumers' right to know by forcing the labeling of GMO ingredients. Big Food is spending big to mislead and confuse voters, writes Ronnie Cummins - but the outcome is looking too close to call.
… their cells-severely damage or kill birds, bees, butterflies, lab rats, farm animals and …
Toshiba, the 60% owner of NuGen, has announced it will build 3 AP1000 reactors at Moorside, England - much faster and cheaper than Hinkley C. But the whole proposition, writes David Toke, is seriously implausible.
Toshiba's nuclear project - cheaper than Hinkley C? David Toke | 17th January 2014 Comment Nuclear Power UK USA Energy vogtle.png Toshiba, the 60% owner of NuGen, has announced it will build 3 AP1000 …
Thanks to herbicide use on GMO crops in the US and Canada, Monarch butterfly numbers have crashed - the milkweeds the larvae feed on now survive mainly in 'conservation reserve' land and roadsides - and there's a 5% chance the Monarch will be extinct within 100 years.
… and roadsides would help. Pollinators such as bees and butterflies are in serious decline, …
Bark beetles are invariably presented as terrible, forest killing pests, writes Chad Hanson. But in truth forest biodiversity depends on them to create the snags for insects to burrow in, woodpeckers to feed off, and countless birds and even pine martens to nest in. So when you hear politicians calling for bark beetle 'salvage' logging, send them off with a flea in the ear!
… The flowers attract native flying insects - bees, wasps, butterflies and moths - which in …
As the UK Prime Minister welcomes the recommendations of his science advisors to 'go it alone' in Europe and embrace GMO crops, Pat Thomas wonders - whatever happened to the Precautionary Principle?
GMOs - Throwing precaution to the wind Pat Thomas | 15th March 2014 Comment EU UK USA Regulation GMOs Gm Food Trade Science fuck-monsanto-denver.png As the UK Prime Minister welcomes the …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
… beneficial species like the earthworms and bees. Creating artificial drought in a land of …
This summer, the Smoky Mountains burned, writes Grant A. Mincy. The aftermath is terrible to behold. But with the autumn rains and winter snow, life is returning, and a new cycle of regeneration is under way. Once again we witness the beating heart of the forest: water travels the vascular tissue of the trees and transpires over the valley and ridge. The wilderness is breathing.
… air: Let me tell you about the birds and the bees, and the flowers and the trees, and the …
A key element of the TTIP is the deregulation genetically modified seeds and plants for cultivating in European soils, writes Julian Rose. This alone is reason enough for us to reject it - but it's only the beginning of a huge power grab that would make our governments more accountable to corporations, than to people.
… family, because of their deadly impact on bees. However let us be clear, the European …