MORE BEE BUZZ

NOT global warming, but NOT good news, either.

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious ‘colony collapse’ of bees
Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross, April 15, 2007 (UK Independent)

WHO

WHAT
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the devastating depopulation of the apiary world.

WHEN

WHERE
60% of commercial bee population on US West Coast, 70% on East Coast. Also Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, England, Scotland, Wales.

WHY
Much crop pollination is bee-dependent. Research evidence suggests cell phone radiation interferes with bees' internal navigation, preventing them from returning to their hives. Dr Jochen Kuhn, Landau University, reports bees will not return to hives with cell phones nearby. Dr George Carlo, leader of a large scale US study on cell phones said, "I am convinced the possibility is real." Mites, pesticides, global warming and GM crops are less widely possible causes. Other dangers have been tentatively associated with cell phone radiation.

QUOTES
Albert Einstein: “…if the bees disappear, man only has four years of life left."