Ban Pesticides Linked to Bee Deaths, Say Some British MPs

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Manitoba honey bees. PLT photo

The UK government should suspend the use of a number of pesticides linked to the deaths of bees, a committee of MPs has said. Full story here.

Desertification Too Important For Canada To Ignore - Suzuki

Photo Credit: Kevin Pluc The federal government recently  pulled out of an important global  treaty: the UN Convention to  Combat Desertification. It’s aimed  at fighting drought, a problem that  affects almost 30 per cent of Earth’s  land surface and threatens the  well-being of more than a billion  people worldwide, including in our  Prairie provinces.  Every year, the cumulative effects of overgrazing, over-cultivation, deforestation,  poor irrigation and increasing extreme weather events – including those that  cause drought – permanently degrade close to 10 million hectares of land.  This has led to a creeping loss of places where food can easily be grown.