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Thor Hanson: How Nature Struggles with a Warming Planet

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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How Much Do We Depend on Bees?

The bees out in nature are most important polinades, so they're involved at the fundamental level of the food web. I decided i was going to take that big mac apart and determine which parts of it were dependent upon bees and which were not. The only thing really left on the side that i could have eaten if there were no bees in the world were, you know, the the hamburger padties themselves. So i still had something to eat, but it was a very, very dull meal.

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