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Extreme Heat Poses an Emerging Threat to Food Crops

Excessive heat directly harms bees and the plants they pollinate, but can also trigger cascading effects with potentially devastating impacts on pollination and crop yields that scientists are just beginning to study.

By Liza Gross

A bumblebee hangs on a still-red blueberry. Credit: Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images
Beewise's Beehome is a high-tech beehive that helps beekeepers remotely monitor and care for their bees. Credit: Beewise

Warming Trends: Climate Clues Deep in the Ocean, Robotic Bee Hives and Greenland’s Big Melt

By Katelyn Weisbrod, Bob Berwyn

The the carder bee, seen here gathering pollen on an alpine silver thistle in the Austrian Alps. Credit: Bob Berwyn/InsideClimate News

Bumblebee Decline Linked With Extreme Heat Waves

By Bob Berwyn

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