Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has had environmentalist, beekeeping enthusiasts, and farmers concerned about the future of farming, and, well, food since 2006. Pollinators, including bees, are ...

It has been 38 years since scientists last spotted the insect known as Wallace’s Giant Bee, a rare species found only in a group of Indonesian islands called the North Moluccas. With a wingspan of 2.5 ...

Bees face extinction because their nests are overheating due to climate change, warns a new study. Wild bumblebees all over the world need a similar nest temperature to thrive. But with global warming ...

Around 100 activists, led by Extinction Rebellion, rode around the city on bikes as part of the “Critical Swarm," and then collapsed in front of the Tate Modern to symbolize the death of bee colonies.

OSLO (Reuters) - Almost one in 10 of Europe's wild bee species is at risk of extinction because of threats from the spread of farms and pesticides among other factors, a first assessment of the ...

Many of the insects and birds that pollinate the world are at serious risk of extinction, threatening essential crops and our global food supply, according to a United Nations report to be released on ...

Thousands of species of insects could soon go extinct, and that could put the world's food supply in jeopardy. A United Nations report says that bees, butterflies and even birds are at risk. Three ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...