Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Crops and Keepers in Peril
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Bees have been disappearing at an alarming rate in 24 states, threatening the production of numerous crops.
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Scientists yesterday identified a virus as one of the likely causes of the recent wave of honeybee colony collapses across the country.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mouse,...
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The once abundant shrimp of the legendary Rio Grande in Jamaica has become scarce and what can still be caught is often poisoned, a result of manâs impact on the natural world.
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More than 16,300 species of animals and plants are on the verge of disappearing from the planet, with nearly 200 more species approaching extinction within the last year, according to the World Conservation Union&#39;s 2007 Red List of Threatened Species.
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An agricultural region in eastern Mauritania faces the loss of its entire crop to swarms of locusts unless action is taken immediately, a regional government official has warned.
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WASHINGTON - Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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A long spell of wet weather is having a 'dramatic effect' on ground nesting bees, a conservation group says.
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Africanized honeybees have been found near Tioga, about eight miles north of Alexandria and 140 miles southeast of the Caddo Parish town where they were first discovered in Louisiana.
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A tiny pest is decimating honeybee colonies across the country, worrying beekeepers and farmers who depend on the insects to pollinate their crops.
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CALCUTTA, India - When his chickens started disappearing a few weeks ago, a farmer in eastern India figured dogs or jackals were to blame - until he discovered his calf making a meal of his poultry.
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The worst drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields.
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Unusual insects are clinging to survival against threats from pollution and climate change, say conservationists.
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A new report has found that more than 40 per cent of all European bird species are threatened and may disappear soon due to intensive agriculture and climate change.
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Some experts on insect biology say that without better monitoring, there is not enough information to know if anything new or calamitous is happening to honeybees.
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By building homes on prairies, draining wetlands and clearing forests, humans are diminishing bird populations, according to a new National Audubon Society study.
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By The Associated Press  The state program to save agricultural land from development is out of money, leaving more than 600 applications from farmers to keep more than 120,000 acres of farm land in limbo.