http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,552556,00.html
http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/f96ff2ae7980dd0a

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Global Food Shock

...Another threat to the food supply is a mysterious disorder killing honeybees called Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD. Even before this threat, bee populations shrunk 50% from their peak in the 1970s. Bees are essential to pollinate many commercial crops we take for granted. 9 About one third of fruits and vegetables produced in the U.S. depend on insect pollination.

Worker bees are suddenly disappearing and abandoning their hives, and some keepers have suffered a 90% loss of their insects. Even more odd, bee predators like the wax moth won't touch the unguarded hive. Theories range from stress to mites, fungus, pesticides, genetically modified crop poisoning and even abnormally large honeycombs, but no one knows for certain. Now another pollinator, bats are dying in a similarly baffling way in the Northeast U.S. ...

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http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article4656.html

 

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