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A Caffeine Buzz Helps Bumble Bees Do Their Jobs Better, Study Finds
Caffeinated bees could be used to boost crop production, according to a new study.
This Global Map Shows You How Nature Benefits You Directly
The map displays how people all over the world receive benefits from the environment, and who is most likely to lose them due to land use issues and the climate crisis.
New Field Tests Find These Pesticides Are Harming Bees
It’s long been suspected this was bad for bees.
What Would Happen if All the Bees Went Extinct?
It's almost impossible to overstate the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem.
Could an App for Farmers Help Save the World’s Bee Population?
A new app from researchers at the University of Vermont allows farmers to virtually trial methods of encouraging bees to thrive and pollinate crops on their land.
Why Bee-Friendly Cities Are the Key to World Food Security
According to community ecologist Dr. Mick Hanley, “biodiversity needs to be incorporated into urban planning in a much more strategic way than has been done so far.”
Bee-Eating Hornets Are the Latest Threat to British Agriculture
There’s more bad news for honeybees as the UK’s Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs confirms a sighting of the bee-eating Asian hornet in Gloucestershire.
Scientists Have Yet More Evidence That Pesticides Are Bad News for Bees
A new study from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology links the long-term decline of bee populations in England with neonicotinoid pesticides.
This Medicine-Misting Bat Cave ‘Air Freshener’ Could Ward Off a Deadly Disease
White nose syndrome has killed an estimated 6 million bats in North America, which are an important part of our food system.
Bee Extinction Is Threatening the World’s Food Supply, UN Warns
No one can pinpoint why bees and other pollinators are going extinct, but figuring it out will prove vital to our future.