Bee deaths may signal wider Pollination Threat: UN.
14/03/11 11:50 Filed in: From the inbox...
11 March 2011
Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20110310/tsc-environment-us-bees-011ccfa.html
Mass deaths of bee colonies in many parts of the world may be part of a wider, hidden threat to wild insect pollinators vital to human food supplies, a U.N. study indicated on Thursday.
Declines in flowering plants, a spread of parasites, use of pesticides or air pollution were among more than a dozen factors behind recent collapses of bee colonies mainly in North America and Europe, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) said.
That cocktail of problems -- rather than a single cause killing bees in hives that might be easier to fix -- may also threaten wild bees and other insects vital to pollinate crops such as soybeans, potatoes or apple trees.
"It's the tip of the iceberg we're seeing with the honey bees," Peter Neumann, a lead author of the study of "global honey bee colony disorders and other threats to insect pollinators," told Reuters.
"There is not an immediate pollination disaster but the writing is on the wall," said Neumann, of the Swiss Bee Research Center. "We have to do something to ensure pollination for future generations."
The study said there were also reports of bee colony collapses in China, Egypt and Latin America.
"There are some indicators that it is becoming a global issue," he said in a telephone interview.
BIRDS AND THE BEES
Bees and other pollinators such as butterflies, beetles or birds are estimated to do work worth 153 billion Euros ($212.3 billion) a year to the human economy -- about 9.5 percent of the total value of human food production, it said.
Recent estimates of the contribution by managed species, mainly honey bees, range up to 57 billion Euros. In the United States, over two million bee colonies are trucked around the nation to help pollination every year.
"Of the 100 crop species that provide 90 per cent of the world's food, over 70 are pollinated by bees," Achim Steiner, head of UNEP, said in a statement.
"Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature's services in a world of close to seven billion people," he said.
The report urged a shift toward ecological farming, less dependent on insecticides and more resilient to threats such as climate change. Food prices have hit record levels and are one factor behind uprisings in Egypt or Tunisia.
UNEP said farmers could be given incentives to set aside land to "restore pollinator-friendly habitats, including key flowering plants" as part of a shift to a "Green Economy."
Neumann also urged more research into insects, noting that charismatic animals such as polar bears won most attention as victims of global warming. "Insects are usually not cute but they are the backbone of ecosystems," he said.
(Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
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Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20110310/tsc-environment-us-bees-011ccfa.html
Mass deaths of bee colonies in many parts of the world may be part of a wider, hidden threat to wild insect pollinators vital to human food supplies, a U.N. study indicated on Thursday.
Declines in flowering plants, a spread of parasites, use of pesticides or air pollution were among more than a dozen factors behind recent collapses of bee colonies mainly in North America and Europe, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) said.
That cocktail of problems -- rather than a single cause killing bees in hives that might be easier to fix -- may also threaten wild bees and other insects vital to pollinate crops such as soybeans, potatoes or apple trees.
"It's the tip of the iceberg we're seeing with the honey bees," Peter Neumann, a lead author of the study of "global honey bee colony disorders and other threats to insect pollinators," told Reuters.
"There is not an immediate pollination disaster but the writing is on the wall," said Neumann, of the Swiss Bee Research Center. "We have to do something to ensure pollination for future generations."
The study said there were also reports of bee colony collapses in China, Egypt and Latin America.
"There are some indicators that it is becoming a global issue," he said in a telephone interview.
BIRDS AND THE BEES
Bees and other pollinators such as butterflies, beetles or birds are estimated to do work worth 153 billion Euros ($212.3 billion) a year to the human economy -- about 9.5 percent of the total value of human food production, it said.
Recent estimates of the contribution by managed species, mainly honey bees, range up to 57 billion Euros. In the United States, over two million bee colonies are trucked around the nation to help pollination every year.
"Of the 100 crop species that provide 90 per cent of the world's food, over 70 are pollinated by bees," Achim Steiner, head of UNEP, said in a statement.
"Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature's services in a world of close to seven billion people," he said.
The report urged a shift toward ecological farming, less dependent on insecticides and more resilient to threats such as climate change. Food prices have hit record levels and are one factor behind uprisings in Egypt or Tunisia.
UNEP said farmers could be given incentives to set aside land to "restore pollinator-friendly habitats, including key flowering plants" as part of a shift to a "Green Economy."
Neumann also urged more research into insects, noting that charismatic animals such as polar bears won most attention as victims of global warming. "Insects are usually not cute but they are the backbone of ecosystems," he said.
(Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
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Crystal skull by SS Chief Himmler discovered in Bavaria!
14/03/11 11:48 Filed in: From the inbox...
Basel (Switzerland), March 2011
Sensational discovery in Germany: the Swiss magazine MYSTERIES (www.mysteries-magazin.com
In addition to the mysterious crystal skull from South America, this yellowed original document lists such famous artworks as a “centre panel of the Altarpiece of Ghent” in Belgium, Egyptian artefacts believed to have been lost, and secret documents of the German “super weapon expert” General Hans Kammler, which are said to have been transported shortly before the War ended by SS Hunter Battalions from Augsburg to Strakonitz, a town in southern Bohemia.
Even the infamous pot made of gold from Lake Chiemsee that had been discovered in Bavaria in 2001 and later secretly sold by the Bavarian Finance Ministry for 160,000 Euros as “non-NS asset” to the Munich lawyer, Herbert Scholz, is expressly stated in this Nazi list just like some personal treasure trunks of Adolf Hitler.
MYSTERIES editor-in-chief, Luc Bürgin (40), who personally held the skull and the documents in his hands and was able to inspect them, says “if this SS parchment is real despite all scepticism – and all points in this direction presently – then we are dealing with one of the historically hottest German treasure lists that survived the end of World War II!”
In addition to pictures of the skull and images of this “inventory list” the magazine publishes in its current issue the secret files, which have been missing for decades, about the devastating dioxin disaster in the Italian town of Seveso (1976).
Moreover MYSTERIES presents a controversial video from the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo, the valuable artworks which are uninsured to this day. (www.youtube.com/
MYSTERIES / Luc Buergin
Postfach
CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
www.mysteries-magazin.com
mysteries@bluewin.ch
Sensational discovery in Germany: the Swiss magazine MYSTERIES (www.mysteries-magazin.com
In addition to the mysterious crystal skull from South America, this yellowed original document lists such famous artworks as a “centre panel of the Altarpiece of Ghent” in Belgium, Egyptian artefacts believed to have been lost, and secret documents of the German “super weapon expert” General Hans Kammler, which are said to have been transported shortly before the War ended by SS Hunter Battalions from Augsburg to Strakonitz, a town in southern Bohemia.
Even the infamous pot made of gold from Lake Chiemsee that had been discovered in Bavaria in 2001 and later secretly sold by the Bavarian Finance Ministry for 160,000 Euros as “non-NS asset” to the Munich lawyer, Herbert Scholz, is expressly stated in this Nazi list just like some personal treasure trunks of Adolf Hitler.
MYSTERIES editor-in-chief, Luc Bürgin (40), who personally held the skull and the documents in his hands and was able to inspect them, says “if this SS parchment is real despite all scepticism – and all points in this direction presently – then we are dealing with one of the historically hottest German treasure lists that survived the end of World War II!”
In addition to pictures of the skull and images of this “inventory list” the magazine publishes in its current issue the secret files, which have been missing for decades, about the devastating dioxin disaster in the Italian town of Seveso (1976).
Moreover MYSTERIES presents a controversial video from the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo, the valuable artworks which are uninsured to this day. (www.youtube.com/
MYSTERIES / Luc Buergin
Postfach
CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
www.mysteries-magazin.com
mysteries@bluewin.ch
Milkweed Sap cures common Skin Cancers Milkweed Sap cures common Skin Cancers
07/03/11 13:18 Filed in: From the inbox...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 by: S. L. Baker, features writer
http://www.naturalnews.com/031339_milkweed_sap_skin_cancer.html
(NaturalNews) If you talk about herbs, plants and other totally natural substances having the potential to actually cure cancer, odds are you'll be greeted with eye-rolling and disbelief -- especially from the mainstream medical establishment. But research just published in the Journal of British Dermatology provides compelling evidence that the sap from a common weed known as milkweed or petty surge can literally cure certain types of cancers.
Although regarded as a nuisance weed by most gardeners, the plant (whose botanical name is Euphorbia peplus) has been valued for centuries in many folk medicine traditions as a treatment for asthma, warts and several types of cancer. Now a group of Australian scientists from a number of medical institutions in Brisbane have tested milkweed sap on humans and found that it works remarkably well on non-melanoma skin cancers. The researchers believe the plant substance is effective due to a compound it contains called ingenol mebutate which destroys cancer cells.
Non-melanoma skin cancers, which affect hundreds of thousands of people world-wide, are rarely fatal. However, they can be disfiguring without treatment -- which can involve extensive and repeated surgery. These malignant lesions usually appear on the areas of the body most often exposed to the sun, including the head, neck, ears, and back of the hands.
For the new study, the researchers recruited 36 patients with a total of 48 non-melanoma lesions included basal cell carcinomas (BCC), squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) and intraepidermal carcinomas (IEC), a growth of cancerous cells confined to the outer layer of the skin. Some of these people had skin cancers that had failed to respond to conventional treatment including surgery. The rest had refused surgery or had been told surgery was not an option for them due to advanced age.
The research participants were treated once a day for three consecutive days by an oncologist who used a cotton applicator to simply cover the surface of each cancerous lesion with milkweed sap. One month later, 41 out of 48 cancers had complete disappeared.
Patients who had some of lesions remaining after four weeks were given a second course of milkweed sap treatment. And about 15 months following treatment, two thirds of all the 48 skin cancer lesions were still showing a complete cure. The final outcome was a 75 per cent total response for IEC lesions, 57 per cent for BCC and 50 per cent for SCC lesions. What's more, when the lesions disappeared, the skin was left soft and clear.
For more information:
http://www.medscape.com/viewpublica...
http://www.naturalnews.com/skin_can...
http://www.naturalnews.com/031339_milkweed_sap_skin_cancer.html
(NaturalNews) If you talk about herbs, plants and other totally natural substances having the potential to actually cure cancer, odds are you'll be greeted with eye-rolling and disbelief -- especially from the mainstream medical establishment. But research just published in the Journal of British Dermatology provides compelling evidence that the sap from a common weed known as milkweed or petty surge can literally cure certain types of cancers.
Although regarded as a nuisance weed by most gardeners, the plant (whose botanical name is Euphorbia peplus) has been valued for centuries in many folk medicine traditions as a treatment for asthma, warts and several types of cancer. Now a group of Australian scientists from a number of medical institutions in Brisbane have tested milkweed sap on humans and found that it works remarkably well on non-melanoma skin cancers. The researchers believe the plant substance is effective due to a compound it contains called ingenol mebutate which destroys cancer cells.
Non-melanoma skin cancers, which affect hundreds of thousands of people world-wide, are rarely fatal. However, they can be disfiguring without treatment -- which can involve extensive and repeated surgery. These malignant lesions usually appear on the areas of the body most often exposed to the sun, including the head, neck, ears, and back of the hands.
For the new study, the researchers recruited 36 patients with a total of 48 non-melanoma lesions included basal cell carcinomas (BCC), squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) and intraepidermal carcinomas (IEC), a growth of cancerous cells confined to the outer layer of the skin. Some of these people had skin cancers that had failed to respond to conventional treatment including surgery. The rest had refused surgery or had been told surgery was not an option for them due to advanced age.
The research participants were treated once a day for three consecutive days by an oncologist who used a cotton applicator to simply cover the surface of each cancerous lesion with milkweed sap. One month later, 41 out of 48 cancers had complete disappeared.
Patients who had some of lesions remaining after four weeks were given a second course of milkweed sap treatment. And about 15 months following treatment, two thirds of all the 48 skin cancer lesions were still showing a complete cure. The final outcome was a 75 per cent total response for IEC lesions, 57 per cent for BCC and 50 per cent for SCC lesions. What's more, when the lesions disappeared, the skin was left soft and clear.
For more information:
http://www.medscape.com/viewpublica...
http://www.naturalnews.com/skin_can...