Paul De Zylva, Friends of the Earth’s nature campaigner, has responded to research published today in Nature Communications, linking neonicotinoid insecticides to wild bee decline across England with...
Findings of the Great British Bee Count revealed that allotments, more than gardens, school grounds and parks provide the best habitat for declining bees, honey bees...
The Great British Bee Count has found yellow and black bumblebees to be the most common species volunteers have seen across the UK, all of which...
Insectivore birds in areas heavily treated with neonicotinoids, which have been proven to harm pollinators, have declined significantly compared to farms where the chemical is used...
Neonicotinoid and fipronil insecticides pose a major risk to a variety of species, including declining pollinators and are affecting global food systems, according to a team...
Honeybees’ foraging preferences can provide valuable information for governments about how to manage rural landscapes, according to researchers from the University of Sussex. The research, published...
The widely used neonicotinoid pesticides, three of which are currently banned in the EU, are a crucial factor in the collapse of US bee colonies, according...
The government has opened a consultation over the UK’s national pollinators strategy (NPS), aimed at protecting bees and another insects that are essential to agriculture –...
The environment secretary Owen Paterson has provoked a furious response from campaigners, after he said that some of Britain’s ancient woodlands could be cut down to...
£3.5 billion will be taken from the government’s farming subsidies budget for efforts to improve England’s environment, it has been announced. On Thursday, the Department for...
Two studies have revealed that the use of some agricultural pesticides, even at normal levels, can cause biodiversity loss and impact invertebrates in Europe and overseas...
Fipronil is the fourth pesticide that is harmful to honeybees, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has established. It claims that fipronil, which belongs to the...
A committee of MPs has said that the government should suspend the use of the neonicotinoid insecticides that have been linked to the declining bee population....