Climate Change & Bee Emergence
Impact of Climate Change on Wild Bees: How They Are Emerging Earlier and What It Means for Pollination By Paw Mozter Wild bees are vital…
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Plants Flowering Earlier
Plants are flowering a month earlier – here’s what it could mean for pollinating insects Authors Chris Wyver PhD Candidate, Pollination and Climate Change, University of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Nutrient Package Helps Bees Work Better in the Cold, and, How and Where Will Climate Change Affect People, and Bees.
One company wants to help farmers adapt to a world of rapidly declining bee populations. Argentina-based startup Beeflow has developed a special nutrient-packed formula…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Biodiversity Improves Crop Production, and, Trees for Bees Stems Climate Change.
Ecologists and biologists compared data of about 1,500 agricultural fields around the world: from corn fields in the American plains to oilseed rape fields…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Climate Change Study Finds That Maple Syrup Season May Come Earlier, and, Studying Bees at Penn State.
Once winter nights dip below freezing and the days warm up above freezing sap begins to flow in sugar maples marking the start of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Organic Food Worse for the Climate than Conventional Farming.
Chalmers University of Technology Image: the crops per hectare are significantly lower in organic farming, which, according to the study, leads to much greater indirect…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – President Donald Trump Calls Climate Change A Hoax, But Ag Crops Will Suffer
By: Alan Harman (NOAA photo) Climate change promises rising temperatures, extreme heat, drought, rangeland wildfires, and heavy downpours that will increasingly disrupt agricultural…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bees Will Be The Saviors Of Coffee Drinkers With Areas In Latin America Suitable For Growing Coffee Facing Predicted Declines
David Roubik Bees will be the saviors of coffee drinkers with areas in Latin America suitable for growing coffee facing predicted declines of 73%…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Climate Change A Buzzkill For Coffee Lovers.
A coffee farmer picks fresh coffee cherries in Colombia. New climate research suggests Latin America faces major declines in coffee-growing regions, as well as…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – USDA Announces More Than $8 Million to Address Shifting Environmental Conditions and Impact on Agriculture
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently announced nine grants totaling more than $8 million to study…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – As B.C. Gets Hotter, Crops Grown In Warmer Climates Would Become Successful Further North.
With a warmer climate, fruits like cherries and peaches will be able to be grown at higher latitudes and altitudes in B.C. Can you…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Vietnam’s beekeepers fight climate change to keep their hives alive.
By Isa Soares for The Diplomat Scientists have argued that honeybees literally work themselves to death. They’re such busy bees in fact, that their…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – A new University of Illinois study puts climate change predictions in terms that farmers are used to: field working days.
URBANA, Ill. – Scientists the world over are working to predict how climate change will affect our planet. It is an extremely complex puzzle…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Big agriculture has the chance to help or hinder our most important pollinators, research argues
New research identifies future threats to, and opportunities for insects, birds, mammals, and reptiles that pollinate wild flowers and crops 35% of global…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Thirty-one top scientific societies speak with one voice on global climate change
“Climate change is real and happening now, and the United States urgently needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions” In a consensus letter to U.S….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bee populations expanded during global warming after the last Ice Age
The Australian small carpenter bee populations appear to have dramatically flourished in the period of global warming following the last Ice Age some 18,000…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – With busy bees in the lead, ‘pollinator-friendly’ approach vital for healthy agricultural ecosystems – UN
As bellwethers for ecosystem health and biodiversity, bees play a crucial role in agriculture and ending hunger, and “pollinator-friendly” approaches are therefore highly encouraged,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Changes in Goldenrod, a Key Source of Honey Bee Nutrition
Posted by Dennis O’Brien, Public Affairs Specialist, Agricultural Research Service All this month USDA Blogs will be taking a look at what a changing…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Pollen Quality, and Food Quality Will Decrease as CO2 Increases
CO2 rises could fuel obesity as plants “carb-load”. Just Like The Decrease Seen In Pollen Quality, OUR Food Will Carb Up, and Protein Down…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Western Lifestyle Spells the End of Biodiversity
National Research Tomsk State University Contrary to what many economists suggest (see, for example, an article in The Economist entitled Hang On, published in…
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