(Beyond Pesticides, January 24, 2025) Based on data collected from government sources and independent monitoring, a multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Connecticut finds that 46 ...

"Bees take the pollen back to the hive and feed it to the brood. This is a number one cause of the colony collapse." ...

WASHINGTON— Three neonicotinoid insecticides likely harm all of the country’s 38 protected amphibians and roughly three fourths of all other endangered plants and animals, according to ...

In a corn field near Olathe, workers pick and hand off ripened corn to a platform that was slowly traveling through the fields on Thursday, August 2, 2018. Olathe sweet corn is one of the most prized ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 18, 2021) As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to drag its feet on protective regulation of neonicotinoid pesticides, states continue to step up to ...

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency is set to reapprove several neonicotinoid pesticides now in use across hundreds of millions of acres despite evidence from rodent studies of their ...

WWF trials reveal many farmers don’t need neonic‑treated seeds. More choice and risk‑based decisions can cut costs and ...

Honeybees are essential pollinators for agriculture and natural ecosystems. Stressors like climate change, habitat loss and pesticide exposure threaten their ability to forage for pollen, a critical ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation S.1856-A/A.7640, known as the Birds and Bees Protection Act, into law Friday evening. This nation-leading legislation protects New ...

Environmentalists and farmers were relieved to discover that the mysterious and sudden drop in bee populations in the past decade turned out to be linked to neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides ...

A widely used farm pesticide first introduced in the 1990s has caused significant changes to bee colonies and removing it could be the key factor in restoring nature's army of pollinators, according ...