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Insects Are Disappearing And Your Dinner Is Going To Suffer
"Paradoxically, most common approaches to increase agricultural efficiency, such as cultivation of …
Robert Ferris
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As bee populations decline, Japanese researchers have designed a tiny drone to pick up the slack
The artificial pollinator is the brainchild of Eijiro Miyako, a chemist at the National Institute o…
Nick Vega
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Why This Year's Avocados Are Tiny
What's interesting is that there are more tiny avocados than there were large avocados last year, r…
Jennifer Welsh
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The Collapse Of The Honeybee Industry Could Cost Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars
Over the last six years, American beekeepers have lost 30% of their hives each winter on average. M…
Dina Spector
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Walmart has hinted that it may want to make crop-pollinating robot bees
The researchers believe these RoboBees could soon artificially pollinate fields of crops - a develo…
Leanna Garfield
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How The Human Diet Will Suffer If Honeybees Disappear
A new study strengths the evidence linking pesticides to a phenomenon known as colony collapse diso…
Dina Spector
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12 mind-blowing facts about bees
Unfortunately, bees' numbers are declining. Researchers from the University of Maryland reported la…
Zoë Miller
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What would happen to the world's food supply if bees went extinct?
Niño: A lot of the plants that we eat that are dependent on animal pollination do provide the neces…
Amber Bragdon,Amber Bragdon
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40% of US honeybee colonies disappeared last year. This is what the world would look like without any bees at all.
That's because the populations of both domestic honeybees and wild bees have been in decline for th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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A 'bee highway' is being created in Detroit, and it could help offset the dangerous decline of honeybees
The US Department of Agriculture estimates that honeybees pollinate about $15 billion of crops each…
Peter Kotecki
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Insects are dying off at record rates - an ominous sign we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction
In 2017, a study indicated that 75% of Germany's flying insects had disappeared since the 1990s. An…
Aylin Woodward
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Most of the world's best places for coffee will be gone by 2050 - and there's an unexpected culprit
But in countries like Nicaragua, Honduras, and Venezuela, that isn't an option. These regions "are …
Erin Brodwin
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More than 50% of insects have disappeared since 1970, an ecologist warns - even more evidence of an 'insect apocalypse'
Goulson, a professor of biology at the University of Sussex, found that in the UK specifically, 23 …
Aylin Woodward
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The first bee species was just officially listed as endangered
Due to many factors such as climate change, increased use of pesticides, and habitat loss, these li…
Lindsay Dodgson
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America's Honeybees Are Dying Off Faster Than Ever
Researchers believe that a number have factors, including a virus, fungus, and the stress of trucki…
Michael Kelley
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I attended a breakfast with food that would disappear if honeybees go extinct. It was a disturbing glimpse at a future without avocados and coffee.
The microbiome company Seed has set out to tackle a few of these threats with a disc-shaped probiot…
Aria Bendix
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California has 50 times more monarch butterflies than last year — a puzzling blip in their path to extinction
California's monarch butterflies were teetering on the brink of extinction, but a promising rebound…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Up to 1 million species are facing extinction, according to a new UN report. Without them, we could run out of food.
But according to the report, about 10% of the world's insect species are in decline. It calculated …
Aylin Woodward
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11 Extraordinary Things That Happened In America In Just The Last Week
A study from the Mayo Clinic found that the number of Americans willing to donate a kidney to a str…
Max Nisen
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Scientists say we're witnessing the planet's sixth mass extinction - and 'biological annihilation' is the latest sign
"The Earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so …