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Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the bees-be-buzzin dept.

canopic jug writes:

Agriculture's dependence on pollinators, including both wild and domesticated bees, has increased fourfold since the 1960s. A recent study of these pollinators found that they provide up to $577 billion a year of crops, half of which comes from wild pollinators. These ratios underline the severity of their collapsing numbers. More than a third are facing extinction.

Gemma Cranston, head of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership team that participated in the study, warned that "less than half the companies sampled know which of the raw materials they source depend on pollinators", adding that there needs to be more research to get the full picture.

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Plight of the bees hits unaware businesses

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:25PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:25PM (#668126) Journal

    Kill the bees, we gots profit to make!
    We don' need no stinkin' food.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday April 17 2018, @09:40PM

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @09:40PM (#668311)

    Soylent green does not need bees :)

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