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DNA suggests dinosaur extinction event also wiped out ancient bees
The ancestors of modern carpenter bees may have vanished from Earth roughly 65 million years ago, around the same time ...
Study demonstrates net environmental benefit of GM crops
Touting the environmental friendliness of insect-resistant, GM crops — demonstrated in a new study on Bt corn -- may be a ...
“There is no bee crisis,” environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg says
Contrary to what you may have heard, there is no “bee-pocalypse.” There is lots of alarmist talk about colony collapse ...
Protecting farmers, consumers and crops through genetic engineering
Crops engineered to produce Bt, a pest-killing toxin, have been shown to decrease the use of noxious chemical insecticides; however ...
Syngenta to take a continent to court to upend pesticide ban
Syngenta is preparing to spray its lawyerly might all over Europe in a bid to be allowed to keep killing ...
“We need a holistic approach to bee health challenges”
Bee health has been the subject of much media attention over the last year — and rightly so. Bees are ...
EU group claiming “hidden GMO” sunflowers killing bees
New alert in Italy, were bees are dying on sunflower crops. Multiple cases of honeybee colony decline and neurological symptoms ...
A sperm bank for honeybees
There's a lot of buzz at Washington State University over work to develop the first sperm bank for honeybees. Entomologist ...
Egg donation: Some ‘progressives’ say women shouldn’t control own bodies
When stem cell research and egg donation are the issue, some of the same diehard advocates of women’s rights invoke ...
Crops that can genetically modify their pests
Imagine a future in which genetically engineered plants are able to genetically engineer -- and thereby defeat -- their own ...
European bee policy criticized by industry
The new Guidance Document on Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products on Bees sets unrealistic expectations and enforces measures that ...
Canada: Challenges to bee health are complex, banning neonicotinoids is not the answer
The following is an edited excerpt. The complexity of the issues facing bee health is, unfortunately, too frequently being overlooked ...
Monsanto wants to help honeybees fight mites with biotech
A new weapon in that fight to save honeybees could be RNA molecules that kill a troublesome parasite by disrupting ...
Honey bee navigation gene identified
The following is an excerpt. In a new study, researchers report that a regulatory gene known to be involved in ...
Roundup-resistant bees seized in Illinois, sparking legal controversy
The following is an edited excerpt. The Illinois Ag Dept. illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram, ...
Latest anti-GMO conspiracy theory: GMOs are causing mass death of bees
The following is an edited excerpt. What is happening to California's bees? Are GMOs causing these deaths? I have reason ...
Honey bee brain impacted by pesticides
The following is an edited excerpt. Two new studies have highlighted a negative impact on bees' ability to learn following ...
Scientific sleight of hand and monarch butterflies
The following is an excerpt. A recent article entitled "Monsanto v Monarch Butterflies" begins by examining the argument that GMO ...
Monsanto v. Monarch butterflies
Monarch butterflies have been on a downward spiral for decades, and the most recent news stories report that monarch numbers ...
EU report urges caution on GE food
The following is an excerpt. A new report, “Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation,” from the European Environment ...
Beekeepers petition EU to ban GMOs, pesticides
The following is an excerpt. European beekeepers' battle to save bees and honey from pesticides and genetically engineered contamination kicked ...
Honeybee epigenetics may explain why bees are so sensitive to environmental changes
Scientists from the University of Sheffield, Queen Mary, University of London and the Australian National University, have found that honeybees ...
Just Label It Campaign Urges Congress to Dump the Biotech Rider
Just Label It Campaign Urges Congress to Dump the Biotech RiderSacramento BeeWASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A national campaign ...
California: Valley farmers fear ‘modified’ wording in Prop. 37
The Valley's edible crops are grown without genetic engineering, but farmers here still fear a ballot initiative aimed at labeling ...
DNA methylation study finds key to bee destiny
New research published in the journal Nature Neuroscience on September 16, 2012, and reviewed at the Eureka Alert web site ...
Stem cell supplement approved in Taiwan
RBC Life Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB: RBCL) announced today that the Company's stem cell supplement, Stem-Kine™, has been approved for importation ...
Unlikely support for Bt/GM crops
The Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria protein in plants have not harmed monarch butterflies, honey bees, rats or shown up in ...
Poland beekeepers kick Monsanto out of the hive
The decision comes after thousands of protesters recently took to the streets in demonstration of the undeniable fact that both ...
