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A honey bee flies with pollen balls stored in pollen baskets (corbiculae) on its hind legs. (Photo credit: Jennie Durant) Bitter Honey by Jenny Durant

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Jennie Durant's Bitter Honey is a great exposé of the true cost of industrially farming US honeybees, finds Thomas Lewton. But the book's grim figures of bee death alone may not prompt deep change – how about seeing them as fellow creatures?

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Are manure digesters a real solution to dairy farm emissions?

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Food shock is inevitable due to the Iran war – and it could get bad

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The receding waters of Latyan Dam near Tehran, Iran

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World is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy'

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A leading use for quantum computers might not need them after all

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The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops

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Fewer than half the calories grown on farms now reach our plates

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We are undergoing unprecedented loss of freshwater across the planet

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Why a tech start-up wants to pump your faeces deep underground

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Could old mines host all the solar energy we need?

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Could old mines host all the solar energy we need?

There may be enough space on former open-pit mines to build all the solar facilities we need, but building there won’t be easy

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These photos reveal the unique agricultural system of the Maya people

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Inside the mouth-watering race to master lab-grown chocolate

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Largest ever US honeybee die-off has destroyed 1.6 million colonies

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Fungus offers a new way to cut down on methane in cow burps

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