Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".
And they are disappearing.
I know this sounds like alarmism of the National Inquirer sort but this article from the Independent (U.K.) dealing with the very real crisis of Colony Collapse Disorder and it's possible connection to mobile phone use (ours, not the bees!) is of extreme interest.
Here too are stories on this phenomena from the BBC, the Columbus Dispatch, and the Washington Post.