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Oslo Is Abuzz at Being the First City with an Exclusive “Bee Highway”

By creating special pollination stations across the city, residents hope to boost their sagging local bee population.

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Pharrell and Timberland Turn Recycled Plastic Into Bee-Inspired Boots

The nature-friendly summer kicks have even been endorsed by the Queen Beyhive herself, Beyonce.

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Study Points to Multiple Causes of Bee Population Collapse

In a world of competing theories, sometimes more than one is right.

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Summer Music Festivals are About to Get a Whole Lot Comfier

A group of Belgian design firms have designed stackable sleep pods to avoid the sting of exhaustion.

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This New Year, Let's Make Our Gardens Buzz

One of my favorite sayings is, “Dream out loud.” I’m not sure who first planted this thought into my head, but it's been with me for years—and it really helps me set expectations for myself and accomplish the things I want to do.

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From Terminator to Pollinator: Bees Go Robotic

Harvard researchers are designing a swarm of mini-robots that will fly, think, and communicate autonomously.

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Superb Idea: The Bee Station

Due to the disastrous decline in their population, the remaining bees are overworked. Check out this new design for bees to nest, rest, and refuel.

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Feast Your Eyes on This Incredible Documentary About Bees Great Documentary, Colony, Explores the Crisis of Bees Through People

Colony explores the plight of bees through one family and a cast of beekeepers. Watch the trailer.

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Your Nuts Are Making California a Squalid "Bee Bordello"

How our appetite for industrial-farmed almonds creates an orgy of sickly, exhausted bees. And why that's a really bad thing

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Feast Your Eyes: Why Bees Matter

It's not just honey. The decline in honey bees is also about money. Lots of it.

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Feast Your Eyes: Bumblebee Populations Stumble

It's not just colony collapse disorder. Researchers say there's fewer North American bumblebees, too.

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How Bees See Flowers Pollinator Porn

A new Floral Reflectance Database shows humans what plants actually look like to different pollinating insects.

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Google Drones Make Real Honey

Google Instant is pretty cool, but this week the search company released another exciting new product: honey. Real honey.

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Rooftop Bees

With space at such a premium in Manhattan, New Yorkers are accustomed to thinking vertically when it comes to housing. Now bees are getting in on the action. David Graves, an urban beekeeper, tends his hives far above the bustle of New York on rooftops throughout the city. His buzzworthy honey gets rave..