News & Articles By Jhoanna Robinson
12/04/2017
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By Jhoanna Robinson
Conventional agriculture strikes again: Analysis finds that fungicides are causing the decline in endangered bumblebee populations
A team of scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York studied environmental factors to get a grasp of bumblebee population declines and range contractions. They thought they would find aggravators like changes in geography, insecticides, or land use. Instead, they were surprised by something that they didn’t even consider: fungicides. “Fungicides have been largely […]
08/08/2017
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By Jhoanna Robinson
Artificial lights found to suppress pollination, contributing to destruction of ecosystem
A team from the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Bern in Switzerland that was led by Eva Knop found out that nocturnal pollination can in fact be disrupted by artificial lighting. “As it is possible that light-sensitive insects have already disappeared in regions with high levels of light pollution, we conducted […]
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