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THE DEMISE OF bees across the world is an often-cited warning call by environmental scientists of the impact humans are having on the world around us.
In Ireland, the situation is looking up – at least to a certain extent.
Last year it was discovered that the native Irish honeybee isn’t extinct after all, beekeeping is becoming a more common past-time with more locally produced honey appeared in our stores, and efforts like the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan help give bees that extra boost they need.
We caught up with Paul O’Brien, the president of Federation of Irish Beekeepers’ Associations, at the National Ploughing Championships. While we’re not out of the woods yet, he said the future isn’t looking as bleak for bees in Ireland.
Watch the video above for our full report.
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having read this article and in particular the final paragraph i think the heading is misleading and should be changed.
The use of statistical language here is also sensationalising the subject. While the probability may be 8 times larger, if the probability of a young man passing mutations is 1/10,000 and the probability of elderly man passing them on is 8/10,000 it is still a rare event.
Need more info to realise the true meaning of these “stats”
Heard another one yesterday saying older mothers made better…whatever actually can’t remember…there’s much crap ‘surveys’ our there, parents please ignore, make you afraid to have kids!!!
older mothers were more likely to have kids with better speech and less accident’s because the kids are more precious 2 them. wat bullshit like who’s kids aren’t precious 2them? I’m 21 and my 2 halfyear old son has brilliant speech and can hold a conversation. a 45year old I know has a child the same age and he’s had stitches in his head a dislocated wrist and I can never understand a word he’s saying… js sayin.
Eire if your child’s speech is on a par with your text speak rant you may have to reconsider his intellectual prowess
Charlie Murphy. seriously? fool
Mutations are the reason the human race has survived. Harmful mutations generally disappear in a population. The rest imbed the ability to adapt to changing environmental stress. Look at sickle-cell syndrome in Africans which helps resist malaria.
The potential for autism and bipolar is being hugely exaggerated by this research.
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