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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
A bee pollinates a flower on an almond tree in Dixon, California, on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

California’s Almond Trees Rely on Honey Bees and Wild Pollinators, but a Lack of Good Habitat is Making Their Job Harder

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Last year, Clif unveiled a two-megawatt, five-acre solar farm with pollinator-friendly habitat at its bakery in Twin Falls, Idaho. Credit: Jared Lauritsen

Pollinator-Friendly Solar Could be a Win-Win for Climate and Landowners, but Greenwashing is a Worry

By Ilana Cohen

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