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A ground breaking new meta-analysis on the impacts on bees of a combination of real life environmental pressures has confirmed that the cocktails of toxic pesticides bees are exposed to from intensive conventional farming significantly increases bee mortality. According to the analysis of 90 studies, it also found that agricultural pesticides sold to farmers ready-mixed More

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