Posts Tagged ‘ colony collapse disorder ’

Robotic Bees to Pollinate Monsanto Crops

By Russ McSpadden Earth First! Newswire Pollinators participate in the sexual-reproduction of plants. When you eat an almond, beet, w[youtubeatermelon or sip on coffee, you’re partaking of an ancient relationship between pollinators and flowers. But since the 1990s, worldwide bee health has been in decline and most evidence points to toxic pesticides created by...

Bt Toxicity Confirmed: Flawed Studies Exposed

By Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji Institute of Science in Society Researchers confirm Bt toxicity to non-target beneficial insects and show how experiments claiming to refute their results were designed not to find the effect. A new study confirms that the Cry1Ab Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin present in genetically modified (GM) crops kills the larvae of...

Death of the Birds and the Bees Across America

By F. William Engdahl Global Research “A recent study showed that every human tested had the world’s best-selling pesticide, Roundup, detectable in their urine at concentrations between five and twenty times the level considered safe for drinking water.” Birds and bees are something most of us take for granted as part of nature. The...

Monsanto Exposé: From Agent Orange to Colony Collapse Disorder

By RTAmerica Agricultural giant Monsanto is best known for their production of pesticides and genetically modified foods, but they have a controversial history as a chemical company with a slew of toxic cover ups. In addition to their battle against small farmers, the newest buzz about the corporation is the speculation that their GM...

Single strain of killer virus wiping out global bee population

By Common Dreams Staff To clarify the link between mites and viruses, a team led by Stephen Martin of Britain’s University of Sheffield studied the impact of Varroa in Hawaii, which the mites have only recently invaded. They found the arrival of Varroa increased the prevalence of a single type of virus, deformed wing...

French Ag Minister to ban Syngenta’s bee-killing pesticide, Cruiser

By Phil Chandler Friends of the Bees The French Minister of Agriculture has announced his intention to ban Syngenta’s pesticide ‘Cruiser’ from the French market in a few weeks time; ‘Cruiser’ is largely used on oilseed rape and contains the neonicotinoid ‘Thiamethoxam’, which recent studies in ‘Science’ have revealed to be harmful to bees...

Obama Leaves Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa

By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq., Political Director Organic Consumers Association, May 23, 2012 At the Group of 8 (G8) meetings this past weekend, President Obama and the leaders of the rest of the world’s richest nations abandoned their governments’ previous commitments to donate $7.3 billion a year to end hunger in Africa, after disbursing only...

Louie Schwartzberg: The beauty of pollination (video)

“Pollination is vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye.” Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film Wings of Life: A love story that feeds the earth, inspired by the vanishing of one of nature’s primary pollinators, the...