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Bees

'Huge Win for Pollinators, People, and Planet': EU Bans Bee-Killing Pesticides

Boosting Hopes for Total Ban, EU Regulator's New Assessment Confirms Neonics' Harm to Bees

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

"We have been playing Russian Roulette with the future of our bees for far too long"

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'Ecological Armageddon': Warnings From Scientists as Flying Insects Disappear

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

butterfly in Germany

As new report shows flying insect population plunged by 76 percent, author...

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Tainted Honey: Bee-Poisoning Pesticides Found Globally

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

honey bees

Lead researcher says there were "relatively few places where we did not find...

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EPA Acknowledges Neonics' Harm to Bees, Then 'Bows to Pesticide Industry'

Bees in Peril as First Species Added to Endangered Species List

Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees: Report

'Like Visiting a Cemetery': Millions of Honeybees Dead After Zika Pesticide Spraying

18 Years of Data Links Neonics to Bee Decline

Damning Probe Finds EPA 'Turning Blind Eye' to Toxic Chemical Cocktails

Demanding Pesticide Ban, Advocates Drop Millions of Dead Bees on EPA Doorstep

Pesticide Industry Lobbied Aggressively to Kill Save-the-Bees Campaign

In First Use of Landmark Law, Minnesota Confirms Neonics Harm Bees

GAO Report: Federal Agencies Failing Bees

New Report Issues Dire Warning About Global Decline in Pollinators

EPA Confirms Longstanding Fears About Impact of Neonics on Bees

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Friends of the Earth

Honeybee Death Survey Masks True Scale of Pollinator Crisis

Center for Biological Diversity

While EU Moves Forward Today on Banning Neonics U.S. EPA Plans Backward Step

Friends of the Earth

European Union Bans Bee-Killing Neonicotinoid Pesticides

Center for Biological Diversity

EPA to Consider Approving Spraying of Bee-Killing Pesticide on 165 Million Acres of U.S. Farmland

Center for Biological Diversity

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Endangered Rusty Patched Bumblebee

Friends of the Earth

Food Safety and Environmental Organizations Call on EPA to Ban Bee-Killing Pesticides

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Katherine Paul

Burt’s Bees, Neonics and Poisoning Our Food

Shawn Musgrave

We're Better at Tracking the Deaths of Bees Than People Who Die in Police Custody

Ben Lilliston

Pollinators and the Rigged Neonic Seed Market

Tiffany Finck-Haynes

Why President Obama’s Pollinator Strategy Won’t Solve Bee Crisis

Allan Stromfeldt Christensen

Don't Go With the Flow, Go With the Wax (A Few Words on Saving the Bees... and Us)

Stefanie Penn Spear

Lowe’s to Stop Selling Bee-Killing Pesticides to Protect Pollinators

Chip Taylor

Bring Back the Monarchs!

Michele Simon

Follow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies Are Spinning the Bee Crisis

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