A beekeeper checking frames and caring for the hive. Photo by Getty Images. Over 14 million acres of Minnesota croplands such as corn and soy are planted with neonicotinoid (“neonic”) treated seeds.

WWF trials reveal many farmers don’t need neonic‑treated seeds. More choice and risk‑based decisions can cut costs and ...

This month, a reader named Martha Lynne sent The Press Democrat a rather impassioned plea for an article that would alert the people of Sonoma County to the dangers of neonicotinoid pesticides.

The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has released a list of proposed mitigation measures to limit the use of four controversial and widely used neonicotinoid pesticides in California. Both a ...

Last June, a national partnership that tracks honey bee population declines released the results of its annual survey. Between April 2019 and April 2020, beekeepers reported losing nearly 44 percent ...

The California Fish and Game Commission last week approved an enormous package of regulations. Tucked within that—and only briefly mentioned in a two-day, nine-hour hearing—was a provision banning the ...

This May, the EPA made the astonishing finding that neonicotinoid pesticides (“neonics”) are likely driving 200-plus species – or about 11% of the entire endangered species list – toward extinction.

Sixty years ago, Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, detailed the devastating impacts of the pesticide DDT on bird populations. DDT was especially harmful to species at the top of the ...

A recent letter claimed that when considering gun shootings, “more often than not, the person who is harmed is an evil person who was trying to harm an innocent person.” The writer offered no support ...

Health impacts of neonicotinoids may go well beyond bees, according to a new University of Guelph study. U of G researchers found residues of the insecticides in the livers of wild turkeys, providing ...

The honeybees, bumblebees and other little pollinators swarming over my flowers remind me what important roles they play – and how some misguided folks could inadvertently hurt them. Montgomery County ...

Amid mounting controversy over use of neonicotinoids and declining bee population, a new analysis of previously unpublished studies and reports commissioned by agri-chemical companies Bayer and ...