Bees are responsible for 80 percent of pollination that takes place on Earth, according to greenpeace.org. Pesticide usage, habitat loss and global warming are a few reasons the bee population is in decline....

I heard April 22 was Earth Day. Maybe it was just a rumor, for it went by almost completely unnoticed here. Among a recent storm of Disney movies trying to compete with the phenomenal Discovery series Planet Earth and Life, one would think that interest in Earth Day would be growing. I remember in elementary...