http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/burts-bees-47121502

Corporate Love in the Time of Colony Collapse Disorder

Burt's Bees and the North American Pollinator Protection
Campaign are looking for a few good scientists to help improve
the ailing health of the honeybee.

Burt's Bees, the maker of "earth-friendly natural" personal care
products, is contributing $32,000, and the North American Pollinator
Protection Campaign's Honeybee Health Improvement Task Force will
leverage its scientific expertise in choosing the 2-4 projects most
worthy of a cash infusion. The money will benefit research that
focuses on one of four things: the effect of climate on nectar or
pollen quality and other environmental variables, the effects of
nutrition on bee or colony health, the health effects of pesticides,
or ways to improve the genetic stock of honeybees.

The goal is to define real-world techniques that will improve
honeybee health at a time when an unknown agent (or some
combination of known agents) is causing unprecedented death in 
a phenomenon called colony collapse disorder. Even before colony 
collapse disorder reared its ugly head (scattering bees from their 
hives, to which they never returned), honeybees had experienced 
years of decline as a result of a series of viruses, parasites and 
other problems.

If you're a scientist with a great idea, go to
<http://www.thedailygreen.com/print-this/environmental-news/latest/burts-bees-47121502>
Pollinator.org for more information.

If you're just concerned about bees, take heart that maybe some
sorely needed help is on the way.

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