Bees do more than make honey—they’re the backbone of our ecosystems. Learn how climate change, pesticides, and farming practices threaten them, and what can be done.

Bees play a critical role in the global food chain, pollinating around three-quarters of the world’s flowering plants which produce 90% of the world’s food. The FAO has estimated that one out of every three bites of food we eat depends on bee pollination.