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Topic: neonicotinoids

A bumblebee and a honeybee on a flower (file photograph)
New Science
Thursday, 7/2, 05:36 PM

Watchdog says UK broke the law by clearing a bee-harming pesticide for sugar beet

  • Britain's independent environmental watchdog has found that the government's environment department acted unlawfully when it repeatedly let sugar beet farmers use an emergency exemption to spray a banned, bee-harming pesticide.
  • The ruling turns on the risks the chemical poses to pollinators — risks that decades of research have made hard to dispute.

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