News bites, April 2018
...going through 70,000 gallons a day — to ecological — buying malt from salmon-safe farms in the area and conducting deliveries by hand truck. (Seattle Met) Treating honeybees The Varroa...
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...going through 70,000 gallons a day — to ecological — buying malt from salmon-safe farms in the area and conducting deliveries by hand truck. (Seattle Met) Treating honeybees The Varroa...
Noted mycologist Paul Stamets is collaborating with Washington State University researchers to study how mushroom extracts might protect endangered honeybees. Noted mycologist Paul Stamets is collaborating with Washington State University [...]
...· Honeybees sniff out drugs? · Probiotics prevent colic in babies? · Food companies cut calories · Diet soda decline · Non-GMO Grape-Nuts · Monsanto hot spots Supreme Court to...
...ag · Diesel disorients honeybees LA considers banning GE · Nut thefts continue · Modern wheat different? · “Camel of crops” gains popularity · B.C. sardine fishery collapses · DDT...
Learn about new tiny tags to track salmon, recommendations for honeybee protection in Washington, genetically engineered pine trees and more. ...resulting in unknown consequences for forests. Restoring habitat is the [...]
"Bee-friendly" garden plants sold by Home Depot, Lowe's and other top garden retailers around the country contain neonicotinoid pesticides that can poison bees. ...Oregon when the neonic pesticide dinotefuran was [...]
I used to think of my work as growing organic food for humans. These days I prefer to consider the whole effort as growing food for bees. Feeding humans is [...]
Are honeybees good pollinators? How is India growing record rice yields without GMOs? Learn the answers and more. Scientists are reporting that honeybees are not necessarily the best pollinators. A [...]
Organic food sales, Ag money in politics, Long-term GMO risks, and more ...to light and flying at night. There’s no treatment but researchers are inviting Northwest beekeepers and the public [...]
Different sugars have different qualities and effects in recipes. Here’s advice on natural sweeteners and choices in baking substitutions.
Urban beekeeping, PCC's GE fish ban, Humanely raised eggs, and more ...do not treat honeybees as flying cattle. Finally, consumers should buy honey from trusted local beekeepers, or from natural [...]
...dioxide and provide wildlife habitat. Snags are attractive to nesting birds and conifers provide propolis (a natural antibiotic, antiviral substance) for honeybees. “I’m not looking for reasons to give up....
Fluoride classed as neurotoxin, Coffee for hydration?, Argentina stops Monsanto, and more ...Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Colgate-Palmolive have made recent commitments to start phasing out microbeads from their products. [...]
The first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970. Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, created a bipartisan "national teach-in on the environment" and promoted it widely [...]
...This nonprofit’s mission is to save threatened honeybees through local habitat restoration, hive relocation, and public education. PCC Edmonds is donating auction prizes to this event, so make sure to...