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...
The European Commission has urged EU countries to ban the use of the neonicotinoid insecticides that are said to have driven a decline in the bee...
Homebase has become the third major hardware retailer to phase out the sale of neonicotinoid insecticides that have been linked to the fall in bee numbers....
Thousands of campaigners have called for the government to take action over dwindling bee numbers, urging David Cameron to adopt a national bee action plan. Environmental...
The European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) has picked out a number of dangerous risks to bees posed by a trio of common insecticides. Clothianidin, imidacloprid and...
Today marks half a century since the publication of one of the environmental movement’s seminal books – Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Published on this day in...