In the last few weeks beekeepers have reported staggering losses in Minnesota, Nebraska and Ohio after their hives foraged on pesticide-treated corn fields. Indiana too, two years ago. What's going on in the Corn Belt?
Posted 05.10.2012
Bees are making headlines these days, and not in a positive way. Colony collapse disorder has cut through honeybee populations, with some beekeepers r...
The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012
While photography normally maintains a distance between the representation and the thing itself, Matthew Brandt's works submerge his message in his me...
Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.03.2012
Why would one of the largest purveyors of pesticides, genetically engineered seeds and agrochemicals want to buy a company which has been seeking solutions to the escalating threats to the world bee population?
Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.02.2012
Researchers worldwide have been scrambling to discover why bees are dying in record numbers. If you're not a huge fan of the bee, why should this matter to you? Well, if you like to eat food, you should be concerned.
Posted 04.30.2012
On "Swamp Wars" (Sun., 9 p.m. ET on Animal Planet) the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Venom One team helped one man and his dog after their home was overrun...
Andrea R. Vaucher | Posted 04.19.2012
The Jean Paul Gaultier fashion retrospective at the de Young Museum in San Francisco was the perfect pretext for a road trip along one of the world's most spectacular coastal roads.
Posted 04.11.2012
From Mother Nature Network's John Platt: A swarm of as many as 100,000 bees attacked a Tennessee beekeeper last month, and genetic testing of the a...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.03.2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Biden sla...
Heather Pilatic | Posted 05.29.2012
Pesticides are prevalent, persistent and more scientists confirm everyday that they are making bees sick (or dead). The sad truth? Beekeepers have been sounding this alarm from the ground for years. Would that we had listened.
Reuters | Posted 05.29.2012
By Kate Kelland LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered ways in which even low doses of widely used pesticides can har...
Lori Day | Posted 05.27.2012
So I say to the worst Internet service provider in the world, to whom I have given dozens of hours of my time over the years dealing with their incompetent customer service and tech support professionals and their highly unstable platform, goodbye and good riddance.
AP | GOSIA WOZNIACKA | Posted 05.22.2012
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Commercial beekeepers and environmental organizations filed a petition Wednesday, asking federal regulators to suspend use of ...
Posted 03.09.2012
By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/08/2012 02:09 PM EST on LiveScience Like humans and other vertebrates, some bees are ...
Frank Morgan | Posted 05.06.2012
The recent reports on the disappearance of bee populations have omitted mention of their role in the longest-standing open problem in mathematics.
AP | Posted 04.25.2012
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A mother of eight has died in the South American country of Guyana after she was attacked by a swarm of Africanized bees. ...
Perry Garfinkel | Posted 04.23.2012
Billions of bees have disappeared in the last decade and scientists have no idea why. As executive chef at the Four Seasons Atlanta, Robert Gerstenecker has launched an awareness campaign by setting up two beehives on the hotel's terrace.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.20.2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: White Hou...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.18.2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The owner...
Posted 01.10.2012
Anyone who says "there's power in numbers" has clearly never been on the bad side of a Japanese hornet. These poor, unsuspecting European honey bees w...
AP | GOSIA WOZNIACKA | Posted 03.05.2012
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Northern California scientists say they have found a possible explanation for a honey bee die-off that has decimated hives aro...
Megan Paska | Posted 02.29.2012
While having your own brand of honey is going to be a top reason for most, there are plenty of other selling points. Beekeeping has, for me, been one of the most fun and engaging things I've ever gotten tangled up in.
Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 02.05.2012
Of the more than 1.6 million known forms of life on our home -- planet Earth, bees truly are the "golden-hair" pollinator partners that have been entrusted with sustaining life on land.
Richard Schiffman | Posted 01.29.2012
Food scientists say that over three quarters of the honey sold in American supermarkets and drug stores may not be what the bees created.
Nigel Sheinwald | Posted 01.21.2012
The British poet Alexander Pope once observed that, "All gardening is landscape-painting." But today's gardeners need to be environmental stewards as well as aesthetes.
Heather Pilatic | Posted 05.16.2012