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Recent News Headlines
- 12/30/08 - Honey Laundering: A Sticky Trail of Intrigue and Crime
- 12/24/08 - Bee Learning Behavior Affected by Eating Toxin from GE Corn
- 12/03/08 - Europe Hopes Pesticide-Free Havens Will Give Bees a Break
- 09/29/08 - UK's Soil Association Urges Ban on Pesticides to Halt Bee Deaths
- 09/26/08 - NRDC Sues EPA for Honey Bee Lab Data and EPA Approves Another Bee-Killing Pesticide
- 09/19/08 - Italy Bans Pesticides Linked to Bee Devastation
- 09/13/08 - Electronic Smog 'is Disrupting Nature on a Massive Scale'
- 09/11/08 - Honey Bees Not Healthy in U. S. or U. K.
- 09/05/08 - Bayer on Defensive in Bee Deaths
- 08/27/08 - Bayer Pesticides Cause Mass Death of Bees
- 08/26/08 - New Research Finds Higher-Than-Expected Levels of Pesticides in Hives
- 08/19/08 - EPA is Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information
- 08/17/08 - Hive Health Worries Beekeeper
- 08/16/08 - German Beekeepers Slam Bayer & Pesticide-Intensive Agriculture for Killing off the Bees
- 08/15/08 - Honeybee Deaths Reaching Crisis Point Threatening Fruit and Vegetable Pollination
- 08/01/08 - Sierra Club Urges EPA to Protect Honey Bees from Toxic Pesticides
- 07/24/08 - Commercially Engineered Bees Spread Disease to Wild Bees
- 07/21/08 - UK: Beans May Be Off the Menu Due to Fewer Bumblebees
- 07/18/08 - German Beekeepers Mobilize Against Pollution from Genetically Engineered Corn
- 07/09/08 - Scientists Still Baffled at Bee Losses
- 07/07/08 - Beekeepers Coming to West Virginia for Conference
- 07/04/08 - U.S. Caves Into Lobbyists Over Massive Bee Deaths
- 07/03/08 - Fighting To Save The Bees And Other Pollinators
- 06/30/08 - More on the Bee Crisis
- 06/28/08 - Honeybee Disappearances Could Get Worse, House Panel Told
- 06/24/08 - Germany, France Ban Pesticides Linked to Bee Deaths; Geneticist Urges US Ban
- 06/10/08 - Pesticides: Germany Bans Chemicals Linked to Honeybee Devastation
- 06/03/08 - Last Flight of the Honeybee?
- 06/02/08 - Stung by Losses, Nation's Beekeepers Try to Rebuild
- 05/21/08 - Mass Bee Deaths in Germany Spur Ban on Pesticides
- 05/12/08 - Unexplained Mass Die-Off Hits German Hives
- 05/08/08 - Honeybee Hives in U.S. Seeing Continued Decline, Survey Says
- 05/05/08 - Air Pollution Impedes Bees' Ability to Find Flowers
- 04/25/08 - Saving the Honeybee Through Organic Farming
- 04/23/08 - Sting Operation? Attempt to Steal Bees Botched
- 04/21/08 - Farm Bill Complicates Plight of Honeybees
- 04/13/08 - "Major Disaster" for Bees May Jeopardize Washington State's Crops
- 03/28/08 - US Fears Over Honey Bee Collapse
- 03/06/08 - Grist Magazine On Organic Honey
- 03/01/08 - Ice Cream Crisis as Bees Buzz Off
- 02/07/08 - Youtube video on Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
- 12/22/07 - Disappearing Bees & Pollinators: Status of Pollinators in North America
- 12/17/07 - America's Emerging Crop Disaster: The Vanishing Bees
- 11/15/07 - More on Bees & Genetically Engineered Crops
- 10/23/07 - PBS, Radio, & Scientific Journals Report on Catastrophic Die Off of the Bees 'The Silence of the Bees"
- 09/07/07 - Study Points to Virus in Collapse of Honeybee Colonies
- 08/21/07 - Eerie Saga of the Vanishing Bees
- 07/31/07 - Not-So-Elementary Bee Mystery
- 07/18/07 - The Local Buzz
- 07/17/07 - Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder Action Plan Agreed
- 07/10/07 - Can We Save Honey Bees from Colony Collapse Disorder?
- 07/05/07 - Bee Colony Collapse Mobilizes Federal Rescue Effort
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Recent Science Articles
- 12/24/08 - Bee Learning Behavior Affected by Eating Toxin from GE Corn
- 08/26/08 - New Research Finds Higher-Than-Expected Levels of Pesticides in Hives
- 05/08/08 - Honeybee Hives in U.S. Seeing Continued Decline, Survey Says
- 05/05/08 - Air Pollution Impedes Bees' Ability to Find Flowers
- 09/07/07 - Study Points to Virus in Collapse of Honeybee Colonies
- 05/04/07 - What's The Buzz? Scientists Explore Pesticide Poisoning of Bees
- 04/26/07 - Requiem for the Honeybee
- 03/24/07 - Are Genetically Engineered Crops & Industrial Agriculture Killing off the Bees?
- 03/20/07 - Honey Bee Disappearances: Could Pesticides Play A Role?
- 12/26/06 - Wild Bees Reject Genetically Engineered Crop--Potential Major Impact on Pollination