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GE Honeybee
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, ecosystems, environment, food, genetic modification, health, pesticides )

Julie
- 110 days ago - rodaleinstitute.org
Monsanto sets its sights on "honeybee health" acquiring a company manipulating gene expression.
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Bee Venom Used To Detect Explosives and Pesticides
Science & Tech  (tags: Pesticides, Bee, Venom, Explosives )

Katie
- 381 days ago - treehugger.com
Scientists from MIT have discovered that by coating carbon nanotubes in bee venom, they can create ultra-sensitive detectors for explosives such as TNT, as well as at least two different types of pesticides
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Are Regulators Doing Enough To Prevent Bee Die-Offs?
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, environment, food security, pesticides, research )

Julie
- 437 days ago - newwest.net
A veteran Colorado beekeeper is challenging the EPA to remove a widely used pesticide from the market until there's proof it isn't contributing to bee die-offs.
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Top USDA Bee Researcher Also Found Bayer Pesticide Harmful to Honeybees
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, food, pesticides, research )

Julie
- 489 days ago - grist.org
According to a report the lead researcher at the USDA's very own Bee Research Laboratory completed research two years ago suggesting that even extremely low levels of exposure to neonicotinoids makes bees more vulnerable to harm from common pathogens. ,
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Layton Prosecutor, Dept. of Agriculture Announce Charges in To One Case
Science & Tech  (tags: pesticides, deaths, Negligent homicide children )

Lone
- 758 days ago - ksl.com
LAYTON -- Layton prosecutors announced Wednesday afternoon that a pesticide technician and the company he worked for will be charged in the deaths of two young sisters
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Tell Obama: No Pesticide Lobbyist Nominees-Please Take Action !!!
Science & Tech  (tags: obama, environment, GeneticEngineering, science, pesticides, safety )

Tierney
- 904 days ago - change.org
Remember when the pesticide lobby attacked First Lady Michelle Obama because she wasn't championing the use of chemicals in her White House garden? Somehow a top official from CropLife -- the powerful chemical industry trade group that went after Mich
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Pesticides Indicted in Bee Deaths
Science & Tech  (tags: honeybees, pollinators, colony collapse disorder, pesticides, farming, environment )

Judy
- 1104 days ago - salon.com
"They're not making decisions about whether the pesticide can be put on the market based on impacts to bees, no matter how much evidence of harm there is," Colangelo says. "The EPA will just approve it anyway and put a warning label on the product."
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Group Sounds Alarm on European Bee Industry
Science & Tech  (tags: Bees, pesticides, disease, pollination, food crops, crisis )

Suri
- 1119 days ago - nytimes.com
Europe's beekeeping industry could be wiped out in less than a decade as bees fall victim to disease, insecticides and intensive farming, the international beekeeping body Apimondia said on Monday.
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Honeybees In Danger
Science & Tech  (tags: honeybees, pesticides, pollinators, colony collapse disorder, parathion )

Judy
- 1139 days ago - truthout.org
Never in history have honeybees and other pollinators been in such danger. Populations have declined up to 60% in 2009. In 1974 the EPA approved an encapsulated form of nerve gas parathion with time-released pesticide particles the size of pollen grains.
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