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Grocery Stores Ban Genetically Modified Fish

In a dramatic sign of the growing concern over genetically modified food, some of the nation's largest grocers are making major changes.

Study Links Insecticide Use To Invertebrate Die-Offs

The world's most widely used insecticide is not only devastating honeybee colonies. A groundbreaking study reveals extreme pesticide pollution is also killing dragonflies, snails, and other water-based species in mass amounts.

Bee-Harming Pesticides Banned In Europe

Europe will enforce the world's first continent-wide ban on insecticides blamed for the dramatic disappearance of the honeybee.

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Insecticide ‘Unacceptable’ Danger To Bees

The world's most widely used pesticide has for the first time been officially labelled an unacceptable danger to bees feeding on flowering crops.