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Bees

Beyond Neonics: New Study Shows Glyphosate Also Major Threat to World's Honey Bee Population

"It's About Time": Canada Celebrated for Banning Bee-Killing Neonics While US Backslides

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"Unfortunately, it looks like the EPA is trying to be the last agency on Earth to recognize that these pesticides should be banned."

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'An Insult to Our National Wildlife': Trump Reverses Ban on GMOs and Bee-Killing Pesticides in Refuges

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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" Industrial agriculture has no place on public lands dedicated to conservation...

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"Authorizing neonicotinoids during a quarter of a century was a mistake and led...

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

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

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Tainted Honey: Bee-Poisoning Pesticides Found Globally

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

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Friends of the Earth

On heels of Canada and EU bans, EPA Stalls Review of Bee-Killing Pesticides

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth U.S. Applauds Canada’s Ban on Bee-Killing Pesticides, Urges EPA and Food Retailers to Follow

Center for Biological Diversity

Legal Action Challenges Trump Reversal of Prohibition on Bee-killing Pesticides, Genetically Modified Crops on National Wildlife Refuges

Center for Biological Diversity

California Study: Four Widely Used Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees

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

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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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