Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

Scientists found that bees follow subtle microclimate cues - tiny shifts in heat and humidity that shape pollination and boost crow yields.

Bumblebees, among the most important pollinators, are in trouble. Fuzzy and buzzy, they excel at spreading pollen and fertilizing many types of wild flora, as well as crucial agricultural crops ...

Solitary bees are a diverse group of wild bees that nest alone rather than in hives or colonies like honeybees or bumblebees ...

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown is buzzing with enthusiasm about the varied insects to be found during a record sunny spring and the benefits ...

Where honeybee hives may hold 60,000 or more bees, native bees prefer to nest alone or in small groups. Additionally, ground-dwelling bees may share an entrance but then split off to individual hives.

The bill seeks to insert a new sub-section 100 (3), under which the mining minister “must”, in granting applications for mining rights, “impose” the “broad-based socio-economic empowerment prescribed ...

These are the two areas we must analyse as an industry.” BEE, described in classical Marxist terms, is almost certainly driving away new investment in South African mining. Mantashe is a political ...

The exception is the cuckoo bee which lay its eggs in other bees’ nests so it doesn’t have to provide food for them, just like the cuckoo bird. Solitary bees are different altogether. I have read that ...