Funds research into apiarian apocalypse Ice cream manufacturer Häagen-Dazs is stumping up a $250,000 research grant to university researchers in California and Pennsylvania to probe the cause of "Colony Collapse Disorder" (CCD) - the unexplained sudde... ...full story at the register (uk)
from the register (uk) on Tue, Feb 19 2008
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