Spring without Bees : How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply Paperback / softback
by Michael Schacker
Paperback / softback
Description
More than a century after the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT.
This time the culprit appears to be IMD, or imidacloprid, a relatively new but widely used insecticide in the United States.
Many beekeepers and researchers blame IMD for Colony Collapse Disorder, which has wiped out 23% of America's beehives.
Since honeybees are essential to the production of major food crops, their demise could spell catastrophe.
In a riveting detective story that melds science and politics, Michael Schacker examines the evidence and offers a plan to save the bees.
Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, A Spring without Bees is a compelling cautionary tale and a clarion call for action.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:01/05/2009
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- ISBN:9781599216003
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:01/05/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781599216003