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Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— A federal judge approved an agreement today between conservation groups and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that puts the agency on a prompt schedule to consider and designate critical habitat for highly endangered rusty patched bumblebees.
A northeast Missouri suspect, who was out on bond for a domestic assault case, is now back in jail on a weapons charge.
REGIONAL – California recently became the first West Coast state to ban over-the-counter sales of home gardening products that contain a toxic chemical known to kill bees, birds and butterflies.
A federal judge on Friday rejected the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to refuse to designate critical habitat for highly endangered rusty patched bumblebees and ordered the Service to reconsider. Despite the bees having been listed as an endangered species in 2017, in part due to the loss of 99% of their native grasslands in the Northeast and upper Midwest, the Service determined in September 2020 that designating critical habitat for them was “not prudent.” The agency claimed that lack of habitat did not limit the bees’ conservation. Rejecting that claim, the judge held th...
It’s now clear that our decades-long love affair with pesticides is contributing to the worldwide collapse of bee colonies.