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Bees disappear and honey bee theft spreads east

April 23, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
beetheft, colonycollapsedisorder, honeybees

A few weeks ago I wrote about a rash of honey bee thefts in California, triggered by a shortage of bees and commensurate rise in their dollar value as pollinators. Now it looks like bee theft is moving east.  Some...

Arctic herds in a new kind of trouble

March 5, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
endangeredspecies, globalwarming, muskoxen, polarbears, wildlife

I remember reading about ice-age musk oxen as a kid and being thrilled to learn that these strange, tough creatures still exist in a corner of the world.  I would have been no more surprised to hear about live...