Honeybee deaths reaching crisis point

Honey bees are essential not for the honey that they provide us with but for the job they do in ensuring that fruit and vegetable crops are pollinated. In the UK the honeybee population is in crisis and noone...

Solving The Mystery Of The Disappearing Honey Bee

Research continues on the agricultural and environmental mystery known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). However, finding a cause and a subsequent cure for the problem is fast becoming a race against time for...

Bear Convicted of Honey Theft

Any volunteers to serve court papers to a bear? Seriously, though, this seems a waste of court time: bears are bears, and tend not to read posted signs or attend community meetings. "But the honey-stealing bear was...

The Hives lose 6-5 to the Vancouver Canucks

I've heard that rock stars want to be athletes and athletes want to be rock stars.  If that's true, Swedish band The Hives recently got their wish by taking on some of the 'Nucks in a pick-up game at GM...

Plan to end headscarf ban in Turkey slammed

"One of Turkey's top prosecutors has raised stiff objections to lifting a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities. This slam to the plan is the latest statement in a simmering debate on a government plan to abolish the restriction. 'To place the use of an article of...

The Hives ask fans to make art for new single

This is cool for the fans I suppose, but a little lazy on the part of the band. If your job is to be an artist, pick up a pen and draw something on the cover. "12/19/2007 For many fans of music being a part of your...

Beauty Pageant Officials Probe Pepper Spray on Contestant's Gowns

Some of these pageant contestants are ruthless, with a smile on their faces."SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Beauty pageant organizers were investigating Sunday who doused a contestant's evening gowns with pepper spray...

Organic Beekeepers NOT losing their bees!

"Organic Bee Keepers Not Losing Their Bees 14-May-2007 We recently reported on the mystery of bees that are disappearing from their hives and being found dead— or not being found at all. Now it turns out that organic beekeepers are not having this problem. The website of...

UPDATE: Where have the bees gone?

I saw coverage on CNN, NP, MSNBC...it's been a mystery for some time. It looks like we might have an answer finally..."A fungus that caused widespread loss of bee colonies in Europe and Asia may be playing a crucial...

Cell Phone Radiation Could Be Killing Bees

"A mysterious condition known as Colony Collapse Disorder is destroying bee hives around the world. Scientists are still debating the exact cause of the epidemic, but researchers at Landau University suggest that...

Vanishing honeybees mystify scientists

Go to work, come home. Go to work, come home. Go to work -- and vanish without a trace. Billions of bees have done just that, leaving the crop fields they are supposed to pollinate, and scientists are mystified about why. The phenomenon was first noticed late last...

Mysterious Disease Is Killing Our Honeybees

"Scientists are reporting a dramatic loss of honeybee colonies. Some beekeepers say they're losing 20 percent of their bees, others say half, some say 80 percent. They open the hives to find the bees dead, or gone....

Honeybees dropping like flies from mystery illness

"A mysterious illness killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the United States has industry experts baffled and Canadian beekeepers concerned about the health of their hives. Researchers in the United...

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