pollinators Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:17:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Pollinator Habitats Could Be Saved By Solar Power Plants https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pollinator-habitat-solar-20180812/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pollinator-habitat-solar-20180812/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:17:12 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=66878 Researchers at the U.S Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are studying solar energy facilities with pollinator habitats on site. By this, they hope to rehabilitate declining pollinator populations that play an important role in the agricultural industries. The loss of such species could result in devastating crop production, costs, and nutrition on a […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pollinator-habitat-solar-20180812/feed/ 1 66878 80 Percent of Food Traders Fail in Saving Bees and Consumers’ Health from Pesticides https://www.greenoptimistic.com/80-percent-of-food-traders-fail-in-saving-bees-and-consumers-health-from-pesticides-20180318/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/80-percent-of-food-traders-fail-in-saving-bees-and-consumers-health-from-pesticides-20180318/#respond Sun, 18 Mar 2018 18:07:36 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=65364 Last month, it was reported that “roboBees”, which can actually pollinate artificially, have been developed by Japanese researchers. The motivation for this effort is the fact that forty percent of bees’ species, our natural pollinators, are nearing extinction. One major factor driving their extinction is the uncontrolled usage of pesticides in conventional agriculture. In the […]

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