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Climate change could threaten newly described ‘shiny’ North American bees

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Sep 2024
A bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

It’s the bee’s needs: Study finds best plants for bee health, conservation

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2024
Beekeeping in Thailand

Beekeeping helps villagers tend coastal forests in Thai mangrove hotspot

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jun 2024

Amazon deforestation threatens one of Brazil’s key pollinators, study shows

Molly Herring 5 Jun 2024
A yellow-legged hornet "hawking," hovering in front of a honeybee hive to pick slower-moving bees out of midair.

Mini radio tags help track ‘murder hornets’ and other invasive insects

Claudia Geib 14 Mar 2024
Image of a honeybee by Andrea Fabiani Ph via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Bees bring honey and hope to a forest reserve in Nigeria

Orji Sunday 24 Feb 2024
Delio de Jesús Suárez Gómez has become a bee expert. He is 58 years old, belongs to the Tucano peoples, and has turned to meliponiculture to help secure the future of his community and the surrounding forest. Image by Jose Guarnizo.

The man who made a pact with wild bees in Colombia’s Amazon

Jose Guarnizo 1 Dec 2023

Brazil’s Indigenous communities turn to native beekeeping to recover nature

Elizabeth Oliveira 16 Oct 2023

In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023

A Guarani community brings native bees back in the shadow of São Paulo

Lais Modelli 18 May 2023
Snow leopard at ease in its high-mountain habitat. Image courtesy of Madhu Chetri.

Honey production sweetens snow leopard conservation in Kyrgyzstan

Monica Pelliccia 10 May 2023

Ethiopia used chemicals to kill locusts. Billions of honeybees disappeared

Malavika Vyawahare 1 May 2023
A researcher shows one of the illustrations that are part of the stingless bee project. Image courtesy of Conservation International Colombia.

Indigenous women record age-old knowledge of bees in Colombia’s Amazon

Astrid Arellano 8 Feb 2023

Pollinator declines linked to half million early human deaths annually: Study

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2023
Beekeeper using a bamboo ladder to reach a hive in Umalila, in Tanzania's Southern Highlands. Image by Paul Latham via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

For Tanzania’s traditional beekeepers, modern hives just don’t buzz

Ryan Truscott 23 Jan 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023
11. Alda prepares branches of wild rosemary (Baccharis dracunculifolia) to use as a duster to keep bees away during handling. An essential plant for bees, the wild rosemary also has a great capacity for regeneration and can be successfully used in the recovery of degraded areas. Lar de Pesquisas Agroecológicas Abacateiro, Egídio Brunetto Agroecological Settlement, Lagoinha, Paraíba Valley, Brazil. Image by Inaê Guion.

Photos: Newcomer farmers in Brazil embrace bees, agroforestry and find success

Inaê Guion 2 Dec 2022

‘Beenome’ project aims to boost bee conservation with genetic mapping

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jun 2022
Eliupendo Laltaika interviewing a member of the Sonjo community.

‘GPS’ bird points to the sweet spot: Q&A with honey hunter Eliupendo Laltaika

Ryan Truscott 13 Jun 2022
Crotch’s bumble bee (Bombus crotchii) on milkweed flowers

California court ruling opens door for protection of insects as endangered species

Liz Kimbrough 2 Jun 2022

A whiz and a buzz: Bee attacks at Sri Lanka rock fortress point to need for toilets

Malaka Rodrigo 20 May 2022

For a beekeeping couple in Costa Rica, pesticides are killing the buzz

Monica Pelliccia 1 Apr 2022

Air pollution makes it tough for pollinators to stop and smell the flowers

Liz Kimbrough 10 Feb 2022

In Madagascar, beekeepers persist in the face of fires and forest loss

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 5 Jan 2022

More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution shows

Luís Patriani 3 Jan 2022

Forests falling for cashew monocultures: A ‘repeated mistake’ in Côte d’Ivoire (commentary)

Cathy Watson 13 Oct 2021

Can we save the bees? Absolutely. Let’s start with the native species (commentary)

Krystle Hickman 7 Oct 2021

Enhancing biodiversity through the belly: Agroecology comes alive in Chile

Constanza Monterrubio Solís 30 Aug 2021

Developing nations pay for rich countries’ hunger for healthy, exotic food

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Mar 2021
shiny green beetle

Death by 1,000 cuts: Are major insect losses imperiling life on Earth?

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jan 2021

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020

A Philippine stingless bee helps boost coconut yields and empower women

Mavic Conde 29 Sep 2020

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