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Bees Dying Off in Record Numbers Continue Dire Trend

ByKyle W. Bell May 15, 2015May 20, 2015

A nationwide survey of U.S. beekeepers released on Wednesday found that the pollinators have been hit by another massive population drop, with 42 percent of bee colonies nationwide dying in the last year — the second-largest annual recorded loss to date and a number that is too high to be sustainable, according to researchers. The…

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Songbirds Dying From DDT in Michigan Yards

ByKyle W. Bell July 28, 2014July 29, 2014

ST. LOUIS, Mich. – Jim Hall was mowing the town’s baseball diamond when he felt a little bump underneath him. “And there it was, a dead robin,” he said. Just last week, he found another one. “Something is going on here,” said Hall, who has lived in this mid-Michigan town of 7,000 for 50 years….