Tag: pollination
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Nation & World
When pollinator populations are in peril
New Harvard study finds pollination loss removes healthy foods from global diets, increases chronic diseases causing an estimated 427,000 excess deaths annually.
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Nation & World
Making use of the head
Blue-banded bees bent on pollination bang their heads against tomato plants at a rate of 350 times per second, a Harvard researcher found.
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Nation & World
Are failing bees our warning sign?
Harvard School of Public Health Associate Professor of Environmental Exposure Biology Chengsheng (Alex) Lu outlines the danger posed to our food supply — and possibly to us — by the collapse of honeybee colonies.