Feb. 4 (UPI) --Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials on Thursday made a formal recommendation to list the rusty patched bumble bee as an endangered species because it has disappeared from about 90 percent ...

Some call them nuisances. Problematic pests with a proclivity to inflict pain. They are black, and yellow, and buzz to a tune that most of us relentlessly swat and run from. Dan Lewis is among the few ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Have you hugged a honeybee today? Travis and Chiara Bolton have — at least, that’s how the bees might see it. The St. Paul couple has found a way to turn solar-energy gardens ...

Having wild bees as pets might sound a little off the wall, but such is the case for Tom Strobi and Claudio Sedivy. The two biologists from Zurich are working with an environmental issue at heart: ...

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Have you hugged a honeybee today? Travis and Chiara Bolton have — at least, that’s how the bees might see it. The St. Paul couple has found a way to turn solar-energy gardens into money-making bee ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. While soybean farmers watched the drift-prone weed killer dicamba ravage millions of ...

Many people might conclude that a front-page story about weeds on Aug. 5 signaled a slow news day. I disagree. Weeds are an important topic because they are integral to our stressed human biological ...

Honeybees have a gene that promotes cleanliness — like removing dead or sick bees from a colony — and breeding for that could be the key to preventing colony collapse disorder, a study from Genome ...

High in the Dubai mountains, where there’s little vegetation, bees struggle to survive the summer heat. But like in the rest of the world, bees and other pollinators are needed in this arid ...