From my distant viewpoint, this is first-rate journalism that answered many questions I have had about this troubling phenomenon and left me confident that I need read no farther until new answers are found (or the research aritcle she cites is past its embargo date). I hope that those closer to the beekeeping scene who disagree will provide specifics and details, rather than one-word dismissals.

[Added: Thanks to Patricia Blochowiak for finding the original article, which is indeed important and worth a read. However, its publication date does not match that given in the TerraDaily report here reviewed, being 12548–12553 PNAS July 24, 2007 vol. 104 no. 30, rather than "An article published today, July 16, 2007, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences". Furthermore, Margot Bumpus' eurekalert link shows that TerraDaily simply lied by crediting the article to ... More »

Using authoritative sources, the writer calls attention to a phenomenon that this follower of environmental news was unaware of: the acceleration of the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere over the past few years. Not simply a continuing increase, but a sharp increase in the *rate* of the increase. If this continues, the global warming consequences that people have seen forecast for a century hence will instead happen in their own lifetimes. The suggestion is that since human CO2 ... More »

It is good journalism because it reports a little-known aspect of a serious and growing problem in our increasingly authoritarian society, where the highest in the land try to keep too many secrets. It achieves this with a succinct account of one man's experiences.