Environment
Rutgers University in the US, has conducted the first study showing how bee diversity is needed to maintain crop yields...
biodiversity
A public consultation has been launched relating to a risk assessment of plant-protection products and their impact on bees. The...
biodiversity
Two scientists from the UK and the US have been jointly awarded £640,000 (approximately €767,981) to build tiny robots that...
Agri-Business
Researchers from University College Dublin (UCD) and Royal Holloway, University of London are calling for urgent research to be carried...
Environment
A Laois farmer who is currently working on a five year project on sustainability and biodiversity said he has had...
biodiversity
Teagasc has appointed Dr. Stephanie Maher as permanent biodiversity researcher, based in the Teagasc Environment Research Centre, Johnstown Castle, Co....
Environment
A one-hour documentary titled ‘Plean Bee’ is set to be aired by TG4 next week on World Bee Day, May...
Environment
The withdrawal of the UK from the EU has caused untold difficulties, but Fianna Fáil Senator Eugene Murphy raised an...
Tillage
Farmers in this country are already doing great work to promote pollinators on their farms according to a leading professor,...
Tillage
SuperValu has stated that it is “on a mission” to help reduce the threat that pollinators are currently under. It...
Agri Politics
MEPs on the EU’s Environment Committee want a reduction in pesticide use to become part of the the future of...
Environment
The European Commission will provide €120 million to the EU’s beekeeping sector over the next three years to support its...
Environment
Scientists in the Canadian province of British Columbia have been battling massive die-offs of honey bees last winter by breeding...
Rural Life
At a time when many managed and wild-bee species are in a severe decline that threatens food security, researchers from...
National Ploughing Championships
New guidelines to encourage bee-friendly farming were launched at this week’s Ploughing Championships by Minister of State at the Department...
CAP / Schemes
Farmers who are in the Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environment Scheme (GLAS) have until Sunday, July 31, to have works completed on their...
Environment
Bumblebees are in steep decline in both Europe and North America because of climate change, researchers at the University of Vermont...
Environment
Bees may develop an addiction to chemicals used in pesticides, a new study published in the journal Nature has shown. Newcastle...
