Oslo Builds Bee Highway To Save Precious Pollinators
BeeAndy Murray/FlickrCC by SA 2.0Today, we're talking bees.Yep. Those bees. Sure, some people might have had a bad encounter or two with the wrong end of a bee's stinger, and might be on guard around the little insects.For the most part though, bees get a bad rap. In addition to creating delicious honey, they also help pollinate crops, to the tune of $15 billion dollars every year in the United States. Without their help we wouldn't have food.And that's why it's not great news that bees haven't been doing so well in recent years. Last year, the United States lost 40 percent of its honeybee population, a devastating loss. No one is exactly sure what's causing the collapse, but climate change, pesticide use, disease, and habitat loss are all suspect. And other countries around the world are having the same difficulties. In Norway, which also noticed...