Tula is just one of 30 Russian regions that have experienced large-scale bee deaths this summer, according to the country's beekeeping association. The agriculture ministry said the deaths inflicted ...

MOSCOW -- In the village of Verkhnyaya Medveditsa just north of Kursk, Andrei Malykhin has spent years tending to beehives and doing his part to contribute to Russia's sizable yearly honey output.

Anatoly Rubtsov looked despondently at the beehives lining his property. "The farm used to be loud, it sang," he said. Today just a faint buzz is audible but an overpowering rotting stench hung in the ...