It represents a serious threat to agriculture because bees are pollination agents for the majority of crops. WORLDWIDE declines in bee colonies, threatening much of global agriculture, may be caused by a new generation of nerve-agent pesticides, two new scientific studies strongly suggest. The findings place a massive question mark over the increasingly controversial compounds, now the fastest growing family of insecticides in the world.

Bees , bird species in N-E affected due to radiation from mobile towers
Bees and certain other bird species of the Northeast might get a reprieve, now that the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is setting up a study on the effects of radiation from mobile towers on avian life, official sources have said.

Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Jayanthi Natarajan, said that there were some reports indicating that radiation has a negative impact on bees as well as adverse effects on scavenger birds in certain parts of Northeast India and Odisha.

CHENNAI: The ministry for environment and forests has commissioned a vital three-month study to understand the impact of mobile phone tower radiation on birds and insects in the wake of disappearing bird species and bees. "I have heard these radiations have deleterious impact on birds. In Odisha, I heard that crows and other birds have fallen dead from the sky.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests has ordered another study on the impact of electromagnetic radiation from cell phone towers on avian population.

Following the crow mystery in Kolkata and recently in Orissa, where crows dropped dead in large numbers, the Ministry has ordered a post-mortem and also a study to check if radiation from cell phone towers could be a reason for that, said Ms Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister for Environment and Forests.

NEW DELHI: Disposed paper cups outside juice and coffee shops could be behind the India's Colony collapse Disaster (CCD) disappearing honey bee population that pollinate 80% of all crops. The sugary residue in these paper cups attract honey bees who look at it as an alternative source of food instead of flowers. A 'considerable population' of honey bees who take a dip into these cups never return. Researchers say these cups act as a?death trapsa for them.

AHMEDABAD: An environment and forests' ministry study has blamed electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from communication towers for the declining numbers of sparrows and bees. The study titled 'A possible impact of communication tower on wildlife birds and bees' said the radiation decreases egg production in the bees.