Join Rodale’s Honeybee Conservancy
Always wanted to keep bees but just don’t have the space? Want to do something to help stop colony collapse disease? Already have...
13 February, 2013
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EU steps up for bees & U.S. backtracks
Last week, the European Commission announced its position against the use of bee-harming neonicotinoid insecticides, urging nations within the European Union (EU) to...
07 February, 2013
Neonics hurt bees. Who knew?!
Earlier this week the European Food Safety Association issued a report concluding that neonicotinoids ("neonics") pose an unacceptably high risk to bees, and that the...
18 January, 2013
Beekeepers expect “worst year for bees”
“We’re facing the extinction of a species.” That’s what one Midwest-based large-scale commercial beekeeper told me last week at the annual gathering of...
16 January, 2013
What’s the buzz in Britain?
Across the pond, the buzz is all about the impacts of pesticides on bees. Both the U.S. EPA, and its British counterpart, Defra,...
13 December, 2012
At EPA’s front door: “Protect bees from pesticides”
Standing outside EPA headquarters in Washington DC yesterday, beekeepers — flanked by Center for Food Safety, PAN and Beyond Pesticides — called for...
25 October, 2012
Pesticides & the silencing of the bees
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the book that galvanized an extraordinary cross-section of the American public into...
12 September, 2012
Bees need EPA to stop stalling. Now.
Between now and September 25th we have an opportunity to respond to EPA’s recent decision that pollinator declines don’t present an imminent hazard.Join...
18 August, 2012
Guest Blog: Teaching pollinator importance
This summer, I did a project for my Girl Scout Gold award focused on the importance of bees and bats and what we...
26 July, 2012