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British oilseed rape farmers face beetle infestation after government rejects neonics emergency request
In light of the rejection of their emergency use application last spring to use neonicotinoid seed dressings on autumn oilseed ...
SciBabe tackles ten GMO myths
According to the internet, GMOs are responsible for a lot of problems. You’ve heard that they cause almost everything, including ...
How to save Monarch butterflies? Banning glyphosate and planting milkweeds won’t help
According to activists, the decline of the Monarch butterfly population is primarily due to the over application of the popular ...
Following ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, Cambridge University’s lawns destroyed by pests and crows
The immaculate lawns of Cambridge University are being spoiled by crows feasting on bugs after an EU ban on a ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, October 31, 2016
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Biopesticides: Leveraging nature’s pesticides to protect our food
[Brooke Borel writes in bioGraphic about a demonstration trial in Canada using bumble bees to deliver a 'biopesticide' to a ...
Buzz Kill: How the Sierra Club uses scare tactics about bee health and twists the science to raise money
The Sierra Club, once venerated for its problem-solving approach to environmental issues, has become a shrill campaigner against many modern ...
Farmer’s advice on discussing GMOs with skeptics: Less confrontation, more understanding
A recent report says most Canadians don’t know what “GMO” means, but still believe it to means something bad. A ...
Monsanto Open Letter challenges activist-staged ‘Monsanto Tribunal’ mock trial
For The Record: Mock trial distracts from real dialogue on the world’s food and agriculture needs and the full realization ...
Europe’s neonicotinoid ban contributed to one-third drop in Britain’s rapeseed
Britain's rapeseed harvest fell this year by almost one-third due to poor yields and a prolonged decline in the planted area which ...
Addition of Hawaiian bees to endangered species list unrelated to honey bees
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added 49 species of plants and animals to the endangered species list on [Sept ...
EU Parliament, bucking EU Commission, opposes authorization of five new GMOs
The European Parliament opposed the European Commission plans to authorise five GMO products, maize Bt11, 1507 and MON810 (seeds and ...
Cargill to offer Non-GMO certified sugar, sunflower oil and sweetener
Cargill, one of the world’s biggest wholesale food suppliers, has bowed to consumer trends... The US company handles millions of ...
‘Advocacy research’ tying neonicotinoids to bee deaths debunked, but still effective propaganda
...[A] worrisome... trend is the increasing frequency of articles containing flawed “advocacy research” that is actually designed to give a false result. This ...
Viewpoint: ‘Advocacy research’ discredits science and aids unprincipled activism
This article originally appeared at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. The scientific research enterprise ...
Neonicotinoid debate pits backyard beekeepers against commercial hive operators
The Ontario Beekeepers’ Association (OBA), whose members are mostly hobbyists..., has called for the Canadian Honey Council ... president, Kevin Nixon, ...
Nature busts anti-GMO myth: Gene swapping among plants, insects common occurence
Examining the genes of wasps, moths and butterflies reveals widespread genetic exchange between species. What does this mean for our ...
Endangered species listing for bumble bee could intensify neonicotinoid debate
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on [Sept. 21] proposed listing the rusty patched bumble bee... for federal protection as an ...
No evidence that GMO mustard would harm India’s honeybees
Contrary to the unsubstantiated... rumors on the ill-effects of barnase-barstar GM mustard technology on honey bees, the South Asia Biotechnology ...
Insecticides and fungicides—not neonicotinoids—contribute most to bee mortality, study says
The impact of pesticides on pollinators remains an ongoing concern, especially as new research highlights the complex web of pesticide ...
New York PTA’s proposed bans on GMOs, milk from rBST-treated cows flunk science
Scientists say the NY PTA has been hijacked by anti-GMO activists who want to impose their beliefs on the food ...
Viewpoint: Why are the feds blocking technologies to control the mosquitoes that spread Zika virus?
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. FDA took an unconscionable ...
Dietician, mom advises ‘don’t be shamed by misleading labels,’ ignore butterfly Non-GMO label
. . . As a teenager, heading back to school might inspire "label" anxiety - that of the "did I get ...
Minnesota governor issues executive order limiting use of neonicotinoid pesticides for farms but not homes
Minnesota governor Mark Dayton on Aug. 25 issued an executive order limiting the use of nicotine-based pesticides known as neonicotinoids ...
Bee scientist joins Monsanto to battle varroa mites, save honeybees
About a third of the nation’s honeybees have died each winter over the past decade, and [Jerry] Hayes, an apiary ...
Media shouting match over neonicotinoids isn’t helping bees
[Bees have] become pawns in the ag wars, the subject of dueling bee-death narratives. In one of those story lines, pesticides ...
Preponderance of field studies and latest research still concludes bees not disappearing
Bees are in the news, . . . mainly, dire tales of disappearing bees threatening a third of our food supply. ...
The Buzz: 6 reasons not to worry about the bees
This article originally appeared at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. Bees are in the ...