Bees

EU To Vote On Honey Bee "Recovery Zones" With Bee-Friendly Flowers

Reuters | Pete Harrison | Posted 11.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Europe, Honey, Bees, Biodiversity, Agriculture Committee, Environment, Honeybees, Animals, European Parliment, Neil Parish, Eu, Honey Bee Crisis, Green News

STRASBOURG, France - Honey bees, whose numbers are falling, must be given flowery "recovery zones" in Europe's farmlands to aid their survival, a lead...

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Forget Person Of The Year, Debate The Most Important Species

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Bats, Most Important Species, Bees, Plankton, Animals, Fungus, Primates, Poll, Green News

If you thought the season for debates and voting had ended, think again! Some folks over in the UK -- specifically, the EarthWatch institute -- are de...

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New Drug Is The Bees' Knees for America's Bees

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 09.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Bees, Ecology, Colony Collapse Disorder, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Food, Israel, United States, Animals, Pollution, Treehugger, Green News
Karin Kloosterman

America's bee colonies are collapsing. It's a big mystery, with much at stake. Green websites like TreeHugger have been on the case since the phenom...

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Checks and Balances

Amy Ephron | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Co2, Dandelions, Bees, Poison Ivy, Colony Collapse Disorder, Alternative Energy, George W. Bush, Congress, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Global Warming, Amnwr, ANWR Drilling, GOP and ANWR, Anwr, Green News
Amy Ephron

As global warming increases and the amount of CO2 in the air increases as a result, it turns out, poison ivy and dandelions will thrive.

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Are Honeybees Disappearing Forever? "I F**king Hope Not!" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Honey Bee Mystery, Video, Attention Span Media, Bees, Disappearing Bees, Why the Bees Are Dying, Honeybee, Honey Bee Crisis, Green News

Attention Span Media has released a video that takes a humorous look at the disappearing honeybee crisis. The video, Honey Bee Mystery, describes the...

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Bees Dying: What Happens To The Economy

The Daily Green | Kim Flottum | Posted 06.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Bees, Bee Shortage, Food Crisis, Beekeepers, Colony Collapse Disorder, Green News

People who keep bees commercially keep them to make a living. They take them far and near to fields and farms so the bees can pollinate the crops they...

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Warning: This Film May Give You Hives

Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Honey. Beekeeping, Bees, Media That Matters, Every Third Bite, Pollination, Industrial Agriculture, Colony Collapse Disorder, Hives, HäAgen-Dazs, Entertainment News
Kerry Trueman

2008-06-03-Picture5.jpg Basically, the bees are bailing on us. And without their powers of pollination, a wide range of crops, from almonds to zucchinis, could be about to vanish from our lives, along with the bees.

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Disappearing Bees Threaten Ice Cream Industry

Guardian | John Sterlicchi | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Haagen-Daaz, General Mills, Honeybees, Honeybee Health Improvement Project, U.S. Honeybees, American Beekeeping Federation, Ice Cream Threat, Bees, Burt's Bees, Business News

The collapse of US honeybee colonies this year is set to devastate America's multibillion dollar agriculture and food industries. Last year about 750...

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