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Fighting to save the bees and other pollinators
By Barbara Kessler If you’ve been wondering about all the buzz over honeybees, here is some food for thought – or rather some thought about food: Bees play a role in one out of every three bites of...
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Researchers say honeybee ‘glue’ may protect athletes from overheating
From Green Right Now Reports A compound from honeybees known as propolis, the substance bees use to seal their hives, may protect against heat stress in athletes, according to an article released in...
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Haagen Daz orchestrates campaign for the plight of the honeybee
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Help the Honey Bees, a web-based campaign by Haagen Daz is trying to build buzz for the beneficial insects, which are beset by a mysterious ailment that causes whole...
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Green Right Now Reports How many more causes can we shop or tweet for? At least one more, hopes Haagen-Dazs, makers of those indulgences so inadequately called ice cream. Haagen-Dazs has been running a...
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Hobbyists sweetening the picture for threatened honey bees
By Chris Reinolds Green Right Now Beekeeper Laura Johnson enjoys tending to her buzzing friends, but the real motive behind her hobby is stopping the decline of honey bees. Honey Bees (Photo: USDA)...
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First honeybees, now bumblebees in decline
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Wait! Don’t squash that baby bumblebee. You could be hurting a struggling species. Several varieties of bumblebees, which help pollinate major fruit and veggie...
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Beekeepers urge U.S. ban on pesticide toxic to honeybees
From Yale 360 A coalition of commercial beekeepers and environmental groups is urging U.S. regulators to suspend the use of a pesticide they say may be contributing to a sharp decline in honeybee...
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‘Queen of the Sun’ filmmakers tell how honeybees are dying, and could take us...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Rachel Carson once warned the world that the pesticides we were using to kill weeds were devastating birds, threatening to bring on a ‘Silent Spring’. Queen of the...
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Beekeepers and food and environment groups sue EPA over pesticides toxic to bees
From Green Right Now Reports Four beekeepers and five public-interest groups filed a federal lawsuit against the EPA this week for its role in allowing pesticides that are wiping out honeybees, causing...
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Save bees by skipping these pesticides
From Green Right Now Reports A bee on an Agastache plant. (Photo: GreenRightNow.com) By now we’ve all heard that honey bees are dying in record numbers across the planet, lost to a phenomenon known as...
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