Articles tagged “Insects”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Our Girls and Boys Need More Exploring the Stars, and Less 'Dancing with the Stars' By Jeff Kart IN Tech & Transport Jul 28 2011 Have you heard of STEM? It's a way to grow our economy, and help the U.S. increase its standing in the scientific world. And it's about time, wouldn't you say? + READ MORE

Cicada Invasion Becomes Frozen Treat (June Bugs Next?) By Jeff Kart IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 13 2011 Ice cream shop turns cicadas into a new flavor, and the next batch isn't until 2024. But June bugs come around much more often. + READ MORE

Bayer's Toxic Pesticide: Biggest EPA Fail of the Year? Of the Decade? By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Dec 14 2010 A leaked memo reveals the sloppy process the EPA used to register a pesticide that could be a threat to the nation's food supply. + READ MORE

Meet the Creepy-Crawlies That Make Garden Soil Healthy By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Dec 13 2010 Here are ten interesting, under-appreciated organisms necessary for healthy soil. + READ MORE

Meet Chris Zimmerman, Conservation Ecologist for The Nature Conservancy By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect Dec 9 2010 The Nature Conservancy (TNC) certainly doesn’t lack in the talented conservationist department. First we highlighted Change Maker Ann Snook, a TNC Program Manager fighting for indigenous protected land in the Maya Forest. Now, we present Chris Zimmerman who’s championing conservation efforts local to New York like the healthy, long life of Karner Blue Butterflies whose populations were on the decline and deemed federally endangered. + READ MORE

3 Things We Know About Colony Collapse Disorder, and 2 Things We Don't By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 14 2010 If nothing is done to eradicate CCD, honeybees are not going to survive in North America. What does a recent study into the cause of CCD really prove, and how much exactly do we know about the crisis facing bees? + READ MORE

Why Butterflies Matter: A Primer for Kids By Rachel Cernansky IN Fashion & Beauty Sep 24 2010 The Butterfly Project helps kids understand something even many adults don't: that pollinators "are indicator species. If they thrive, we can be sure that our air, water and soil are thriving also." + READ MORE

Maker Faire 2010: Super Hi-Res Photo Project Aids in Science Research By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Tech & Transport May 24 2010 GigaPan was created as part of the Global Connection Project, which "aims to help us meet our neighbors across the globe, and learn about our planet itself." Specifically, it's a way of taking hundreds of photos of a scene and stitching them together into one massive digital photo, allowing viewers to zoom around or way in to a scene and become interactive with it. Think of it like Google Earth, only you and your neighbors are taking the photos, rather than a satellite. + READ MORE

Laser Zaps Mosquitoes in Mid-Flight to End Malaria By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Tech & Transport May 11 2010 In a recent TED Talk, Nathan Myhrvold shows off his team's latest way-ouside-the-box inventions, including a prototype for a device to better diagnose malaria and, get this, a new mosquito-zapping tool. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value a Grasshopper By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Apr 2 2010 Don't demonize the grasshopper when it's we humans who are treating the planet like it's an orbiting outhouse. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value a Bee By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Mar 26 2010 Bees pollinate one-third of the food we eat. So maybe we need to figure out a new way to value insects. + READ MORE

Former Coal Mines Turned Into Bee-Friendly Havens By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Travel & Outdoors Feb 3 2010 Thanks to the efforts of one bee enthusiast by the name of Tammy Horn, there are wide swaths of former coal strip mines that are returning to ecologically diverse forest land, bolstering hope for not only a once-again thriving local ecosystem but also a stronger local economy. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Add Disease Prevention to Border Security Needs By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Oct 16 2009 Infectious diseases could start to spread to new places, and faster, as temperatures rise. With Dengue on the verge of entering the U.S. and other diseases apt to spread in ways they haven't before, new techniques are needed to step up the fight of disease prevention. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Malaria in the U.S.? How Climate Change Could Be Disease's Best Friend By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Oct 16 2009 As the seasons change and temperatures rise due to climate change, infectious diseases could start to spread to new places, and faster, than we've known them to do in the past. Lyme disease spreading to Canada and Dengue to the U.S. are just the beginning. + READ MORE

Why Don't Vegans Eat Honey? By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Sep 17 2009 No matter how you feel about insects, sweeteners, or your local beekeeper, honey is still not vegan. + READ MORE

Research on the Honeybee Crisis: What's Missing? By Rachel Cernansky IN Home & Garden Sep 14 2009 NRDC explains the gaps in existing research on the dwindling honeybee population. + READ MORE

NRDC Helps the Disappearing Honeybee By Rachel Cernansky IN Home & Garden Sep 14 2009 The Natural Resources Defense Council has been at the forefront of the battle to save the country's honeybees for several years.Absolutely, and the point that we are really trying to get across to people nowadays is that CCD is one symptom of a much bigger problem, which is that pollinators across the world have been in + READ MORE

The Uncertain Future of Bees with National Bee Expert Dennis vanEngelsdorp By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 11 2009 A bee expert explains colony collapse disorder, what we know and what we don't, and what you can do to help. + READ MORE

Bees in Crisis: the National Wildlife Federation Has Tips to Help By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 10 2009 If you haven't been keeping up on the dire situation for honeybees in the last few years, let the National Wildlife Federation help.Bee numbers are dropping as hives disappear and scientists don't yet understand the exact cause--they just know that the bees are in danger and along with them, our food supply as... + READ MORE

Celebrate National Honey Bee Awareness Day By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Aug 21 2009 Today, Saturday, August 22, is the first ever National Honey Bee Awareness Day. While bees are perhaps best known for keeping the world supplied with honey, the amazing striped insects deserving of their own day of awareness for a variety of other reasons, too. + READ MORE