Keyword: honeybees

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Bayer Changes Stance on EPA Bee Report

14.01.2016 - After slamming the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for overestimating the impact of neonicotinoid-based (neonic) pesticides on bee populations in the first of its proposed...

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EPA Neonic Analysis is Inconclusive

07.01.2016 - In its long-awaited report expected for late 2015, the US Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that neonicotinoids (neonics) pose a “significant risk” to honeybees when...

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EU Could Impose Pesticide Ban to Protect Bees

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...

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Syngenta, Bayer Pesticides Pose Honeybee Threat

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...

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Honeybee Death Case Against Syngenta Pesticide Unproven

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...