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      Research has shown that a "serious reduction in pesticide usage" is essential to prevent the extinction of up to 41% of the world's insects in the coming decades.

      EPA Report on Neonics Proves US Has 'Five-Alarm Fire' on Its Hands, Green Groups Say

      "There's now no question that neonicotinoids play an outsized role in our heartbreaking extinction crisis," said one advocate. The EPA must "ban these pesticides so future generations don't live in a world without bees and butterflies and the plants that depend on them."

      Kenny Stancil
      May 05, 2023

      A newly published assessment from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warns that three of the most commonly used neonicotinoid insecticides threaten the continued existence of more than 200 endangered plant and animal species.

      "The EPA's analysis shows we've got a five-alarm fire on our hands, and there's now no question that neonicotinoids play an outsized role in our heartbreaking extinction crisis," Lori Ann Burd, environmental health director at the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), said Friday in a statement.

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      'Grim' Report Warns 40% of US Animals at Risk of Extinction

      "We are currently experiencing and causing the Sixth Extinction—the mass extinction of species across the planet," said the head of NatureServe, which also found a third of plants nationwide are under threat.

      Jessica Corbett
      Feb 06, 2023

      Underscoring the need for humanity to overhaul its relationship with nature, 34% of plants species and 40% of animal species across the United States are at risk of extinction while 41% of U.S. ecosystems could collapse, according to an analysis published Monday by the nonprofit NatureServe.

      "For 50 years, the NatureServe Network has been collecting the information necessary to understand biodiversity imperilment in the United States. This new analysis of that data, a first in 20 years, makes crystal clear the urgency of that work," said the group's vice president for data and methods, Regan Smyth.

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      What's Wrong With the Bees? Our New Film, "The Pollinators," Seeks an Answer

      If these beekeepers are worried, we all should be: our diet depends upon pollination for one of every three bites we eat. 

      Peter Nelson
      Oct 25, 2019

      "What's wrong with the bees?"

      I've been asked that question frequently over the years. My friends, family and most of my work colleagues know that I've been a beekeeper for decades, so it's a reasonable question and it usually leads to an extended and enjoyable conversation about bees and ultimately to food.

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