Bee populations around the world are dying out, with serious consequences for the global food supply, and no one really knows why.
On the west coast of the U.S., the lack of honey bees available to pollinate crops is already having a drastic effect on the almond industry, while in China, people are beginning to do pollination by hand, Paulo de Souza, a CSIRO science leader in micro-sensing technologies, told Mashable Australia.
This decline could be the result of a whole host of stresses, de Souza said, from the pesticides being used in agriculture, to the deprivation of habitat, parasites and extreme weather Read more...
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