This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: West Virginia coal miners are trading in mines for hives; so-called agrihoods are just another name for victory gardens; and repair cafes show that mending is better than ending.
This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: West Virginia coal miners are trading in mines for hives; so-called agrihoods are just another name for victory gardens; and repair cafes show that mending is better than ending.
Taco demolition, left coast lawsuits and baby food blackmail + this day in history w/Jim Bakker indicted and our song of the day by And So I Watch You From Afar on your Morning Monarchy for October 4, 2017.
Researchers in the United Kingdom recently examined how bumblebee queens are affected by neonicotinoid pesticides, finding that one of the most common neonics compromises the queens’ ability to lay eggs, putting her colony at risk for extinction. [1]
The decline in bee populations and the many threats bees face have been well-publicized. Scientists have been frantically hunting for solutions to the problem. Without bees, we lose much of our food. Without food, well …we don’t want that. Thankfully, there is a bit of good news on the conservation front: honeybee populations are finally on the rise. [1]
(ANTIMEDIA) — Because 90 percent of modern crops rely on pollination, honey bees are vitally important to ecosystems. Due to mites, pesticides, and a slew of other harms, however, the numbers of colonies in the U.S. and Europe have declined a staggering 90 percent over the past two decades.
Central Illinois corn and soybean farmer Tim Seifert loads his field planter with Syngenta insecticide.
Bayer and Syngenta repeatedly asked scientists to give them raw data on a major new study which found that neonicotinoid pesticides cause harm to bees before it was published, according to emails obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) rules.
