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Bees

Not Just the Bees, First-of-Its-Kind Study Shows Neonics May Be Killing Birds Too

US Beekeepers File Suit Against Trump EPA Charging 'Illegal' Approval of Insecticide Linked to Mass Die-Off

Jon Queally, staff writer

"It is inappropriate for EPA to solely rely on industry studies to justify bringing sulfoxaflor back into our farm fields," said Michele Colopy of the Pollinator Stewardship Council, a party to the suit. "Die-offs of tens of thousands of bee colonies continue to occur and sulfoxaflor plays a huge role in this problem. EPA is harming not just the beekeepers, their livelihood, and bees, but the nation’s food system." (Photo: Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

"Honeybees and other pollinators are dying in droves because of insecticides like sulfoxaflor, yet the Trump administration removes restriction just to please the chemical industry."

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Because 'A World Without Insects Is Not Worth Living In,' Germany Announces Plan to Ban Glyphosate

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Protesters hold balloons on January 20, 2018 in Berlin during a demonstration under the slogan "We are fed up" against agricultural politics and the use of glyphosate, dumping exports and for sustainable agriculture.

"What we need is more humming and buzzing."

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Groups Sue Trump's EPA in Response to 'Nauseating' Approval of Bee-Killing Pesticide

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Honeybees, essential pollinators, are under threat due to a new Trump administration rule allowing widespread use of a dangerous pesticide.

"Pure pro-pesticide politics."

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A protester holds dead bees

Bolsonaro Greenlights New Pesticides Even as Advocates Mourn Half Billion Dead Bees in Brazil

The Trump administration's budget cuts have led to a suspension of the USDA's tracking of honey bee populations.

USDA Indefinitely Suspends Honey Bee Tracking Survey as States Get Approval to Use Bee-Killing Pesticide

'Terrifying': Rapid Loss of Biodiversity Placing Global Food Supplies at Risk of 'Irreversible Collapse'

Aurelia Skipwith

Trump Nominates Ex-Monsanto Exec to 'Help the Most Anti-Environmental Administration in History Do Even More Damage'

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

containers of roundup

With Merger Pending, Bayer Shares Plunge After Court Orders Monsanto to Pay $289 Million to Cancer Victim

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

fire

'Climate Change...In Real Time': California's Frightening Fires Are the Nightmare Scientists Long Predicted

'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

Samantha Bee

Samantha Bee Skewers Trump's EPA Chief in Segment Titled "Scott Pruitt vs. The World"

Further

Buycott: Because You Are What You Eat/Wear/Buy

A new (free) smartphone app lets you scan products at the store to see if they're made by companies you support or abhor, complete with corporate family trees to see if they lead back to the Koch empire. With a wide array of user-created campaigns, from protecting bees and cutting ALEC funding ties to a host of anti-Monsanto campaigns.

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Center for Biological Diversity

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Approval of Bee-killing Pesticide, GE Crop Uses on National Wildlife Refuges

Earthjustice

Trump’s EPA Said This Bee-killing Insecticide Is Safe, Now Beekeepers Are Suing

Center for Food Safety

Lawsuit Challenges Trump EPA’s 200 Million-Acre Expansion of Bee-Killing Pesticide

Friends of the Earth

Protesters Launch Countdown to Extinction at Kroger Annual Meeting

Friends of the Earth

Customers to Demand Kroger Stop Selling Food Grown With Bee-killing Pesticides

Friends of the Earth

Vermont Passes Bill to Reduce Bee-Killing Pesticides

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Pierre Tristam

Green New Deal Me In

Eric Levitz

Humanity Is About to Kill 1 Million Species in a Globe-Spanning Murder-Suicide

Meena Miriam Yust

Why Treaty Protection Is Needed for Migratory Pollinators

Arshad Khan

Of Animals and Bees and Flowers Wild as Earth Day Nears

Ruchi Shroff

The Monsanto Tribunal’s Legal Opinion Reinforces Movements’ Struggle for Basic Human Rights

Rev. Billy Talen

Did Our Anti-Monsanto Song Beat The Three Hates?

Martha Rosenberg, Ronnie Cummins

Bayer and Monsanto: A Marriage Made in Hell

Vandana Shiva

The Food Dharma

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