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What is it about bees? Three experts on why they’re fascinating, why they’re dying, what can save them

on Sep 17, 2013

In 1945, there were 4.5 million hives of bees in the United States. Today, there are just about 2 million. It’s been a subtle decline over time, but one that has dramatically accelerated over the past seven years. And this should be extremely alarming, given that bees pollinate one-third of the world’s crops. In today’s […]

The big bee bummer: Marla Spivak at TEDGlobal 2013

By Kate Torgovnick May

on Jun 12, 2013

Our supermarket produce aisles would look very, very bare without bees. As MacArthur Fellow Marla Spivak explains on the TEDGlobal stage, this is something we should all be extremely concerned about: the dramatic drop in bee populations that’s been taking place over the past seven years. (Read The New York Times’ take on the especially scary drop in […]