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<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><b>DAVIS, Calif. — Ice cream maker Haagen-Dazs is donating $100,000 to the University of California, Davis, to research an alarming decline in the bee population.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">The money will go for research on "sustainable pollination" and the phenomenon known as colony collapse, a disorder in which bees abandon their hives.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">About 40 percent of Haagen-Dazs ice cream flavors are linked to fruit and nut trees pollinated by bees. The company also is launching a national campaign to create awareness of the honeybee's plight.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#001394" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #001394"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/naturalscience/"><b>• Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Natural Science Center.</b><b></b></a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">A third of the U.S. food supply depends on bee pollination, but bees are vanishing in massive numbers, said Walter Leal, chairman of the UC Davis Department of Entomology.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">The university is home to one of the oldest bee research facilities in the country.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: rgb(0, 19, 148); "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#ffffff" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #ffffff"><b>RELATEDNO</b></font></div> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; background-color: #f9f9f9"><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#af1e15" style="font: 11.0px Arial; color: #af1e15"><b>STORIES</b></font></li> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; background-color: #f9f9f9"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Arial"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269687,00.html">Honeybee Population Collapse Sparks Strange Theories</a></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; background-color: #f9f9f9"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Arial"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269701,00.html">Bee Colony Collapses Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply</a></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; background-color: #f9f9f9"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Arial"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268820,00.html">Nasty Parasite Ends Up Making Bugs More Fertile</a></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; background-color: #f9f9f9"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Arial"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268665,00.html">'Nightmare' Parasite Spreading Through Hawaiian Beehives</a></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; background-color: #f9f9f9"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Arial"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251365,00.html">Mystery Illness Killing U.S. Honeybees by the Thousands</a></font></li> </ul> </ul></span></font></p></div></body></html>