Honeybees are critical for a large part of our agriculture. Their decline has been traced to pesticide resistant mites than carry diseases that can devastate colonies. There are no other miticides approved for use in bee hives in the US. In other words, none of this has anything to do with conservation. It is all about commercial agriculture and regulatory barriers. It should be easy enough to get an emergency approval for alternative miticides, if people can get moving and file the paperwork. Then co
Exactly. Conservationists should not be worrying about honeybees any more than they should about soybeans. It is the native pollinators that are at risk. The causes of their decline are much less clear.
To be fair, I don't ever recall this issue being about protecting native bee biodiversity. It was always presented as "without bees to pollinate, you can kiss all these food crops goodbye!" As in, the threat had always been directed towards the agricultural industry (and by extension, anyone who liked eating foods that might go off the menu if the honeybees went *poof*). There was even some grocery store that attempted to raise awareness by sharing pictures on social media of empty shelves with all the p
That's not universally true. For instance OpenAI is pushing for a massive new AI system in New Mexico called Project Jupiter. They plan to use natural gas for power and want a waiver from the state so they *don't* have to abide by the states requirements for clean power that applies to metered natural gas power plants.
At least they are trying.
Hopefully next time they will closer to the 'right' solution.
Science is all about making hypotheses and testing them. Mistakes happen all the time. It's part of good science.
The 'experts' got it all wrong again.
To be fair, I don't ever recall this issue being about protecting native bee biodiversity. It was always presented as "without bees to pollinate, you can kiss all these food crops goodbye!" As in, the threat had always been directed towards the agricultural industry (and by extension, anyone who liked eating foods that might go off the menu if the honeybees went *poof*). There was even some grocery store that attempted to raise awareness by sharing pictures on social media of empty shelves with all the p
That's not universally true. For instance OpenAI is pushing for a massive new AI system in New Mexico called Project Jupiter. They plan to use natural gas for power and want a waiver from the state so they *don't* have to abide by the states requirements for clean power that applies to metered natural gas power plants.
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