Bees hives are failing (no it's not just honey that you should worry about) think global pollination......think food!!! I can't understand are people blind....does no one care anymore?

Makes you wonder how much more this planet can take doesn't it?

And yet the Earth keeps renewing itself....

And will continue to do as such...

Yes thats how it's supposed to work over that natural course of time.....one creature dies another takes it's place and so on.....however if you cut and burn down the forest faster than what would naturally occur......artificially warm the earth so that creatures have no time to adjust......overfish the ocean so that ALL of it's creatures are gathered in nets and killed instead of targeting only the fish you really want....Now with global warming and pollution even plankton is dying and as it decays depletes the oxygen in sea water and in effect suffocates other forms of marine life....tell me how quickly do yo think earth will renew itself if the basic building block lifeforms are gone?

Being on the left it seems that you guys above anyone else would realize...everything on the planet evolves. Nature creates...then destroys what isn't working or can't cope.

Here's a news flash...humans aren't going to live forever either. Sometime down the road we will go extinct too, and just like everything else thats died off... and something will replace us.

What are we supposed to do? Freeze evolution? Now that makes sense. That's playing God isn't it?

This is not evolution. This is mass extinctions being caused by one species, humans! Oh, that's right you think gloabl warming is all some communist hoax or something.

Being on the left it seems that you guys above anyone else would realize...everything on the planet evolves. Nature creates...then destroys what isn't working or can't cope.

today the scientist say our nidwest flooding is global warming at work

i agree we evovle . i haven;t seen any replacement creratures nor have i seem humanity change

CCD killed 36 percent of the nation's bee colonies last winter. In Pennsylvania, where nearly half of the state's colonies were wiped out the previous winter, losses last winter amounted to 26 percent of the state's colonies.....Rick Wills rwills@tribweb.com

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The experience of Canadian beekeepers echoes that of those in the U.S., where 36.1 per cent of the nation's commercially managed hives have been lost since last year, according to a survey commissioned by the Apiary Inspectors of America and released in May......http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/10/f-bees-colony-mites.html

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In France, beekeepers have for more than a decade waged a war against the chemical giant Bayer CropScience. They hold responsible the company's bestselling pesticide, imidacloprid, for killing a third of the country's 1.5 million colonies. Bayer is also being blamed by German beekeepers for the eerie silence along the Rhine valley, where the buzzing of bees is a common sound at this time of year. They say two-thirds of honeybees have been killed this month by the pesticide clothianidin, which has been widely applied on sweet corn. As a result of the bee deaths, eight pesticides, including clothianidin, have been temporarily suspended in Germany. Anecdotal evidence of pesticide-related bee deaths in Italy and Holland is also piling up.

European beekeepers accuse scientists and government agencies of being in the pocket of the chemical companies. It's a similar story in the US, where scientists maintain that there is no correlation between the bees' disappearance and pesticide use......http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jun102008/environmet2008060972574.asp

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Honey bees are also in a battle for survival with parasites. Professional beekeepers transport their hives across country – which contributes to the spread of parasites such as varroa.

This leeching mite has virtually destroyed the wild honey bee population. It activates lethal viruses which it carries from bee to bee as it feeds on their blood.

It is like a dirty syringe spreading HIV and is probably causing more damage than foot-and-mouth disease.

But bees, unlike livestock, do not have powerful commercial interests to support them.

As a result, a vital link in the natural chain that makes these islands what they are could vanish.

Three native bumblebee species have already disappeared and seven more are at serious risk.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023355/Beemergency-A-mystery-plague-threatens-Britains-bees-result-worse-foot-mouth.html

Sure nuff...the Earth is a neat place and people do screw things up. Trouble is too many people and not enough Earth to go 'round. Nature has a way of thinning the herd...but man has gotten too good at not letting that happen.