Study: Pollinator loss costs big bucks, could threaten java supplies
October 1, 2008
Posted by Melissa Waage in Health and the Environment
Pollination by insects, mainly bees, is worth $217 billion worldwide each year, according to a study recently published in Ecological Economics and highlighted in Business Week. That's equivalent to 9.5% of the world's crop production. (And two-and-a-half times as much...continued→
