The Rural Blog

A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism, based at the University of Kentucky. Links may expire, require subscription or go behind pay walls. Please send news and knowledge you think would be useful to benjy.hamm@uky.edu.

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'Natural beekeepers' have changed their practices with less intervention and more bee-friendly conditions

Shared planet nips: Atmospheric CO2 is highest on record; solar farms have bee buddies; foraging for a purpose . . .

Flora and fauna: Bear under a deck, ants to smell cancer, a vaccine for bees, a mini-horse for joy, Huron microbes . . .

Climate change increases challenges for bees and other pollinators important to agriculture and our food system

Dicamba causing 'civil war' among farmers; Calif. thieves increasingly target pollinator beehives, Reveal reports

Former coal miners train as beekeepers to earn extra cash

Scientists say dicamba partly to blame for honeybee die-off

New app connects beekeepers and farmers

Bee careful: Your honey might be partly corn syrup

Almond joy: Apiarists make more on pollination than honey

Southwestern Pennsylvania coal miners reject retraining, wait for Trump's coal comeback

Study argues that human behavior is overarching reason for decline in bee populations

Over 300 native North American bee species at increasing risk of extinction, says study

Maryland lawmakers push bill to make it self-defense to kill bears threatening bee colonies

Federal judge: Seed coatings with chemicals harmful to bees exempt from federal regulation

Bayer paying Mass. $75,000 fine for deceptions about pesticides' risk to bees and environment

Minnesota governor issues executive order limiting pesticides harmful to pollinators

Backyard beekeepers putting their colonies, and nearby ones, at risk by not controlling mites

Honeybees lost 28% of population over winter; more beekeepers need to treat for mites

Scotts subsidiary Ortho announces it will phase out type of pesticide harmful to bees, other pollinators