It’s unfortunate that the wildlife we care least about provides us with the most functional value. We favor the bears ...

The myth about endangered, disappearing honeybees lives on — with potentially dire implications. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, an Oregon Democrat, just ...

For bees, the threats are numerous, including habitat loss, climate change, and intensive agriculture. As fields of flowering plants are ...

It seems not a month goes by without an “investigative reporter” somewhere on the internet warning about the dangers of ...

For the first time in nearly a decade, Dan Hesterberg poured a few bags of untreated corn seed into his ...

Michigan State University ecologists led an international research partnership of professional and volunteer scientists to reveal new insights into what’s ...

Across the globe, startups are testing robots to pollinate everything from blueberries to almonds. And in Australia, one company is ...

Ron Miksha, a bee ecologist and former commercial beekeeper, is doing research at the University of Calgary about competition between ...

Due to successful fear-based marketing campaigns, the demand for organic food in many affluent countries is rising far faster than ...

Europe is currently in a frenzy trying to drum up enough support to dramatically rollback approvals of targeted synthetic pesticides, ...

The Conversation bills itself as a website designed to “Unlock the knowledge of researchers and academics to provide the public with ...

A Swedish Food Agency report compared environmental impacts of conventional farming against those of organic farming ...

Although researchers once thought that humans were the only species with a sense of quantity, studies since the mid-twentieth century ...

Whether it is ugali, a popular dish prepared from maize flour and often accompanied by meat, vegetables and pulses, or porridge, ...

The solution is about the size of a grain of pollen, and when ingested by bees, allows the creatures to ...

Unfortunately there is quite a bit of dis-and misinformation about what harms bees. For instance, [Maine] lawmakers recently passed a ...

Like citizens of an underground city that never sleeps, tens of thousands of subterranean species of invertebrates, nematodes, bacteria and ...

Currently, products are developed and marketed to kill pest insects immediately. This has become the goal of crop treatments, and ...

[Recently,] the New York legislature began advancing the Birds and Bees Protection Act. If it passes both chambers and is ...

It seems like each day scientists report more dire consequences of climate change on animals and plants worldwide. Birds that ...

The Government was right to make provision for a temporary and limited derogation for the use of the neonicotinoid seed ...

It’s easy to find... articles on the internet which claim that bumblebees and wild bees will be extinct in 20 ...

[RNA-based COVID vaccines let] a vaccine-recipient’s immune system learn to recognise a crucial part of the enemy before the real ...

Dutch researchers on [May 10] said they have trained honeybees to stick out their tongues when presented with the virus’s ...

Does regenerative agriculture require a completely new economics of farming to achieve scale? Or should the focus be on the ...

The European Union’s top court on [May 6] upheld the EU’s partial ban on three insecticides linked to harming bees, ...

[Les Seiler and his brother] have been practicing “no-till” farming [in Ohio] for 36 years and counting. That means they ...

When it comes to food safety, there's no shortage of well-funded advocacy groups stirring up public concern. Under the guise ...