Maryland Senate Passes The First Partial Ban On Bee-Harming Pesticides In The U.S.

The Maryland House passed a bill recently that would implement a partial ban on neonicotinoids, a widely-used class of pesticides that’s been shown to harm honeybees. The bill would still allow farmers to apply neonics on their crops, but would ban everyday consumers from purchasing neonics for their home gardens or other use...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/18/3761652/maryland-bee-protection-bill/

Many Of The World’s Pollinators Are Facing Extinction, Report Warns

The report, released Friday by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), is a two-year assessment of the threats facing pollinators — both vertebrates, such as birds and bats, and invertebrates, such as bees, butterflies, and other insects. It noted that, in some regions, 40 percent of invertebrate pollinator species are so threatened by myriad environmental impacts that they’re facing extinction, with butterflies and bees seeing the highest risk. Among vertebrates, 16.5 percent of species are threatened by extinction worldwide. Pollinators are a major group: there are 20,000 species of wild bees across the globe, the report notes, and many of them haven’t been identified yet...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/26/3754235/pollinators-ipbes-report/

The Future Of Our Food Depends On Honeybees, And The USDA Is Spending Millions To Save Them

The USDA is working with farmers in six Midwestern states to help make bee-friendly changes on their land.  ... Read more

Bees' tongues are shrinking, and now scientists know why

What scientists still don't know: How will this affect the global bee population? ... Read more

Bees win as US court rules against neonicotinoid pesticide

Neonicotinoids have grown popular for protecting fruit, vegetables and arable crops against boring and biting pests, including aphids and beetles. But they have been widely accused of harming bees and other pollinators by disrupting their navigation systems, with major impacts on the survival of colonies. The US court found that the EPA, after initially asking Dow for more studies on these sub-lethal effects, eventually granted approval for the pesticides without them...
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Court Rules Pesticide That’s Been Found To Harm Bees Is No Longer Approved In The U.S.

The court found that the EPA shouldn't have signed off on Dow AgroSciences' sulfoxaflor, which is sold under the brand names ... Read more

Reviled Corporate Lobby Group ALEC Now Working Overtime to Push the 'Beepocalypse'

Controversial conservative group says bee deaths have been overhyped and blame poor land management: ‘We’re not in a battle against nature’.
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ALEC's Scary Corporate Agenda -- 7 of Their Most Anti-Democratic and Science-Denying Ideas

ALEC's annual gathering revealed how right-wingers will push dangerous legislation across the country.
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More Than 100 Businesses Call On White House To Protect Bees From Pesticides

"Bee losses have a ripple effect across the entire economy, and in many cases, affect our bottom-line."The post More Than 100 ... Read more

Pesticides linked to bee deaths must be banned, scientists say

Scientists want two commonly used pesticides banned around the world for helping cause the mass deaths of bees and harming the planet's ecosystem.
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