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USDA Approves New Monsanto Cotton And Soy Crops
On Thursday, the US Department of Agriculture approved Monsanto’s controversial herbicide resistant genetically modified strains of soybean and cotton.The move is a bow to the powerful biotechnology industry and at the expense of human
Read More »37 Million Bees Found Dead In Ontario, Canada After Planting Large GMO Corn Field
Millions of bees dropped dead after GMO corn was planted few weeks ago in Ontario, Canada. The local bee keeper, Dave Schuit who produces honey in Elmwood lost about 37 million bees which are
Read More »Putin says world must remember lessons of past wars
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has condemned political ambitions that threatened peace in Europe during the First World War, saying the international community should learn the lesson from the deadly conflict. Speaking at the opening ceremony
Read More »Beyond Honeybees: Now Wild Bees and Butterflies May Be in Trouble
By now you probably know about the plight of America’s honeybees: the collapsed colonies and dying hives, threatening pollination services to crops and the future of a much-beloved insect. But it’s not just honeybees that
Read More »Full Mobilization: Either Russia Is Positioning Troops for a Massive Offensive… Or This Is The Most Expensive Military Exercise in World History
If you’re paying attention to geo-political and economic affairs at the moment, then you cant’ ignore the gathering storm clouds in Europe. No one at the White House will officially admit it, but we may
Read More »Death and Extinction of the Bees
Scientists have recently reported that mass extinctions of marine animals may soon be occurring at alarmingly rapid rates than previously projected due to pollution, rising water temperatures and loss of habitat. Many land species
Read More »Scientists Discover Another Cause of Bee Deaths, and it’s Really Bad News
So what is with all the dying bees? Scientists have been trying to discover this for years. Meanwhile, bees keep dropping like… well, you know. Is it mites? Pesticides? Cell phone towers? What is
Read More »American Scientists Confirm: Pesticides Are Killing Honey Bees
The disappearance of honey bees in the United States is a phenomenon that has many people asking questions. What exactly is going on? This question has been answered by multiple studies that have shed
Read More »Scientists Discover What’s Killing The Bees And It’s Worse Than You Thought
The mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new
Read More »50,000 dead Oregon Bees to be Honored in Memorial Service
A Portland resident is creating quite the buzz by hosting a memorial ceremony dedicated to the 50,000 bumblebees that died in an Oregon parking lot last week. Just days before National Pollinator Week, tens of
Read More »More than 150 Bee Colonies Wiped Out in Oregon From Pesticides
You wouldn’t celebrate Arbor Day by cutting down a forest, but one landscaping business in Wilsonville, Oregon marked National Pollinator Week in the same sort of ironic fashion—by killing off an estimated 25,000 bees
Read More »Russia Warns Obama: Global War Over “Bee Apocalypse” Coming Very Soon
The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and
Read More »Illinois illegally seizes Bees Resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup; Kills remaining Queens
The Illinois Ag Dept. illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram, without providing him with a search warrant and before the court hearing on the matter, reports Prairie Advocate News. Behind
Read More »US approves new pesticides linked to mass bee deaths as EU enacts ban
In the wake of a massive US Department of Agriculture report highlighting the continuing large-scale death of honeybees, environmental groups are left wondering why the Environmental Protection Agency has decided to approve a "highly
Read More »One-Third of U.S. Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter, Threatening Food Supply
Nearly one in three commercial honeybee colonies in the United States died or disappeared last winter, an unsustainable decline that threatens the nation’s food supply. Multiple factors — pesticides, fungicides, parasites, viruses and malnutrition —
Read More »‘Beemageddon’ Threatens US with Food Disaster
US honey bees have been dying by the tens of millions, with annual death rates of about 30 percent. With fewer bees to pollinate fruits and vegetables each year, 'beemageddon' may soon cause the
Read More »Global Disappearance of Bees
"Up to 12 million Bees Found Dead in Florida and No one Knows Why" I believe it was Albert Einstein that said that "if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe,
Read More »Beekeepers sue EPA over failing to stop harmful pesticides
Beekeepers, conservation and food campaigners accuse Environmental Protection Agency of failing to protect the insects The US government is being sued by a coalition of beekeepers, conservation and food campaigners over pesticides linked to serious
Read More »4 New Reasons to Avoid Pesticides
Within the past two months, new research has emerged that links food pesticides with four different health problems. These findings build on earlier studies indicating pesticide exposure leads to adverse effects, underscoring the benefits
Read More »Who Will Save The Honey Bee? EU Mulls Pesticide Ban While US Set to Approve More
There are a number of grave ecological crises nagging at the status quo of modern life. Though the corporate media prefers not to cover the enduring impact of events like Fukushima, the Deepwater Horizon
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