26.11.2014
- Canada's Ontario province has announced plans to reduce the acreage sown with crop seeds treated with neonicotinoid-based insecticides (neonics) by 80% up to 2017. Plans call for...
15.03.2013
- EU governments failed to agree a ban on three widely used pesticides linked to the decline of honeybees on Friday, but the European Commission could force one through by the summer...
17.01.2013
- Three widely-used pesticides made by Switzerland's Syngenta and Germany's Bayer pose an acute risk to honeybees, the European Union's food safety watchdog said on Wednesday, but...
22.10.2012
- Pesticides used in farming are also killing worker bumblebees and damaging their ability to gather food, meaning colonies that are vital for plant pollination are more likely to...
21.09.2012
- British scientists have shot down a study on declining honeybee populations that triggered a French ban on a pesticide made by Swiss agrochemicals group Syngenta. France's farm...
