News — climate change

Global climate change already has observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have melted, extreme weather is more frequent and intense, plant and animal ranges have shifted, and plants are blooming earlier. Figuring out how something as complex as climate change affects bee populations is challenging but not impossible. Recent research has found that climate change affects our pollinators on a physiological level and alters phenology. Since animal pollinators, especially bees, are crucial to our global food supply, we wanted to use this post to explain the connection between climate change and bee declines in a bit more detail. A Crash Course on...

"Sustainable living aims to reduce personal and societal environmental impact by making positive changes that counteract climate change and other negative environmental concerns." Why live a more sustainable lifestyle? We know bees and other pollinators play a critical role in food production and support healthy ecosystems needed for clean air, soil stability, and biodiversity. We also know that bees are dying across the globe from various interrelated factors - mono-cropping, heavy pesticide use, drought, habitat loss, invasive species, and climate change. Most of us claim to love the planet, but do we? It's easy to say we love nature when we are enamored watching...