A North Yorkshire-based egg producer has joined forces with a leading bumblebee charity in an effort to make its farm more bee-friendly and prevent further population...
A leading agrochemicals group has submitted a legal challenge to the European commission, over its decision to suspend the use of a pesticide that it said...
You’ve probably never really had the urge to stick your head into a beehive, but now, thanks to Explore and its new live feed straight from...
Bumblebees imported from Europe may pose a threat to bees native to the UK, according to scientists. Around 50,000 bumblebee colonies are imported into the UK...
It’s made of over 1,000 empty bottles, 120 hubcaps, four car doors, two bonnets, two disused shopping trolleys and took 900 hours to build. And Ecover’s...
Thousands of bees found dead in a car park in Oregon, US, were inadvertently killed by pesticides used to rid trees of aphids, according to the...
The European commission has confirmed that an EU-wide ban on three neonicotinoid pesticides, that research shows are harmful to bees, will come into place on December...
EU member states have voted to ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides that studies have shown are harmful to bees. The decision means the European commission...
A coalition of campaign groups are taking to the streets of London to urge the government to get behind plans to ban three harmful streams of...
Two common pesticides can compromise honeybees’ neurological functions, a study published in the Nature journal has shown. The widespread use of organophosphate miticides and neonicotinoids affect bees’...
A group of beekeepers and environmentalists are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an effort to curb the use of insecticides that research has...
Despite overwhelming public backing in favour of bee protection, environment secretary Owen Paterson appears set to reject European proposals over the banning of three bee-harming insecticides....
A US research team has tabled a proposal to develop a global monitoring method that will detect small changes in the bee population. The research was...
Four garden centre retailers that own 60 stores across the UK have pledged to remove a harmful stream of insecticide that has been linked to the...
Europe’s capacity to anticipate social and environmental disasters “appears to be limited” according to a comprehensive report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) last week. Raj Thamotheram offers...