What's Wrong With The Bees?

60 Minutes, CBS News by Steve Kroft | Feb. 26, 2008 (Special Report)

honeybees are the unsung heroes of the food chain, crucial to the production of one third of the foods we eat. So when billions of bees began to mysteriously disappear last year, there was plenty of concern and no shortage of theories, blaming everything from cell phones to divine rapture. None of the usual explanations seemed to fit. Some of the nation's top scientists are trying to understand this phenomenon, but no one is more immersed in the mystery ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, Business, Sci/Tech
Topics: Environment, Farming, Biology
Member Tags: honey bees, hive loss
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Feb 26, 2008 - 9:21 AM PST
Reviewed by: Kaizar Campwala (review), Fabrice Florin (review), Myrna E. Watanabe (review), James Jackson (review)
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Myrna E. Watanabe
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 by Myrna E. Watanabe - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a good story. I know it well, having written about it twice--2nd in press--and having interviewed two of the same people and then some. This doesn't include some of the latest information, which indicates that the virus, the Israeli acute paralysis virus, can cause disease in cockroaches. But as of a few weeks ago, no one knew the status of bees this winter, and this updates it. There are three main sources and they cover the major questions. I would have interviewed more people, but I don't do TV journalism

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James Jackson
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 by James Jackson - Oct. 1, 2008

Some bees are permanently in one location. How are these bees doing compared with the traveling bees? Why wasn't this question asked?

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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008
Kaizar posted this story.
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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008
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