+Wildlife | April 11, 2012
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What’s the Buzz: Study Links Pesticide With Honeybee Collapse

By Bryan Walsh

Colony collapse disorder (CCD)—the sudden and massive die-off of honeybees—has emerged as one of the most mysterious ecological disasters of the past several years, and one of the most expensive. Around the middle of the last decade, commercial beekeepers began to report that colonies of bees were collapsing without warning, with death rates approaching 30 [...]

+Wildlife | April 27, 2011

A New Victim of Second-Hand Smoking: Fish

By Jeffrey Kluger

For smokers, the world has always been one big ashtray, with cigarettes flicked away pretty much anywhere. That’s especially true now, since smokers are increasingly forbidden to light up in restaurants, office buildings and even new no-smoking condos. In the great river of litter human beings create each year, so tiny a thing as a [...]