by Ramesh Karki | Apr 3, 2026 | World Bee Journal
2 APRIL 2026 The future of farming may depend not just on genetics or technology, but on helping plants remember how to survive. For more than 500 million years, plants have shaped life on Earth. They fill our atmosphere with oxygen, anchor our ecosystems, and feed...
by Ramesh Karki | Mar 29, 2026 | World Bee Journal
People often assume that the queen bee is the boss of a beehive, but it turns out that many of the decisions are actually made by worker bees. For example, when the queen lays eggs, she can decide the gender of each egg. If she lays an egg containing genetic material...
by Ramesh Karki | Mar 5, 2026 | World Bee Journal
5 MARCH 2026 Planting trees in the wrong places may fail, or worse, undermine valuable ecosystems. An effective climate strategy isn’t about planting more trees everywhere. It’s about planting the right trees in the right ecosystems – while accelerating...
by Ramesh Karki | Mar 1, 2026 | World Bee Journal
In the 1930’s, a French scientist declared that it should be impossible for bees to fly and for many years, scientists struggled to explain the physics behind how bees are able to generate enough lift to get off the ground. But it turns out that rather than flapping...
by Ramesh Karki | Feb 5, 2026 | World Bee Journal
5 FEBRUARY 2026 We often frame climate impacts in terms of whether regions will become wetter or drier. New research suggests that the question misses the point. The variability of rainfall patterns we face across most of the planet is a major challenge to life on...
by Ramesh Karki | Jan 27, 2026 | World Bee Journal
In a honey bee hive, the worker bees are all female, and as the name suggests, they do pretty much all the work, including fetching food, feeding the queen, cleaning up, defending the hive etc. But why is this the case? When a new queen is chosen, she goes on a quest...
