Adding Mycorrhizal fungi to green roofs
A Dartmouth-led research team set out to determine if managing green roof soil microbes could boost healthy urban soil development, a methodology that could be applied to support climate resilience in cities.
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Israel’s BeeHero a top 100 cleantech company
A startup from Israel called BeeHero is using sensors and data to help conventional beekeepers maintain healthy hives. A sensor in the hive that monitors conditions paired with a planning app helps commercial beekeepers keep track of their hives in the field, real time.
Bees are turned off by pesticides at first glance
Bees are turned off by the electrical changes created by pesticides. A study offers a new perspective on how human-made chemicals disturb the natural environment.
Palestinian beekeepers make Jerusalem sweeter
Well in the Bronx, honeybee keepers have tasted notes of pollution. In Jerusalem will the sweet bees offer a taste of holiness?
Effortless Ways to Help the Environment and Save Money in the Process
What are Gen Zs doing? Starting your own local bee farm can help save the planet and save you money on sweet stuff: honey
How your home garden helps the bees
Home gardens are by far the biggest source of food for pollinating insects, including bees and wasps, in cities and towns, according to new research.
May 20 is World Bee Day
Yo. The International Day to respect the bees, yo. We mean respect them every day, but extra today.
Almond Milk And The Destruction of Bees
Almond milk was so promising an alternative to cruelty-free cow milk, or hormone mimicking soy milk, but with the take on bees, maybe it's time to kick the creamy liquid habit?
In Canada, PieBird gives honeybees sanctuary
Honey is a magical elixir. Mystical even. And our love for it goes way back to the earliest signs of advanced civilization. Archeologists have found pots of it in ancient tombs in Egypt placed there as a gift to the gods because it was so loved. Honey experts and beekeepers I’ve met say that honey […]
Is your honey real or fake? Take the test to see if it’s 100% pure honey
Is your honey real or fake? Take the test
Aganetha Dyck works with bees to create incredible honeycomb art
Canadian artist Aganetha Dyck knows honeybees not just as pollinators that ensure the rest of the world has food on the table, but as architects and designers who build these incredible honeycomb sculptures.
Bees Trained to Detect Cancer and TB on Human Breath
It turns out that bees are not only essential to global food production, they also make amazing sniffer “dogs.” Which is how Portuguese designer Susana Soares is able to train Apis mellifera to detect cancer and tuberculosis on human breath.
A Food Market Without Bees (Whole Foods Photo)
A corporate natural foods store in the United States has captured a photograph of what their shelves would look like if bee populations completely collapse. Whole Foods teamed up with the Xerces Society, a wildlife conservation group, to illustrate just how important bees are to our food supply in the hopes of raising greater awareness.
10 Green Prophets for 2012
The year in retrospect has been a positive one. Despite civil unrest, dangerous regimes, and appalling environmental crimes and neglect, there are good green things afoot for the Middle East. Today we recap some of our green leaders of 2012, the people of the Middle East and for the Middle East who have made 2012, […]
The World’s Coolest Beekeeper’s Helper is a Donkey in Brazil
It might seem like I haven’t picked up an atlas in a while since Green Prophet is devoted to Middle Eastern issues, but this story about a Brazilian beekeeper and his appropriately-suited helper was just too sweet not to share. After all, donkeys are essential to thousands of residents from Morocco to Yemen, and beekeepers from […]