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A warming planet, complex geopolitics and fierce competition means business operations are under more scrutiny than ever before.

Returning to Singapore this July, the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit is uniting leaders and investors

to explore how sustainability efforts can bolster resilience

and mitigate risk. Learn more at Bloomberg.com slash sbsd-singapore. That's Bloomberg live.com

slash sbs dash Singapore.

From Bloomberg Environment, this is The Business of Bees.

A pop-up podcast about the humble honeybee and the outsized role it plays in our economy.

The business of bees is quite good.

They're kind of like the panda, aren't they?

Of kind of invertebrate conservation.

It's a big enough difference that without them, there would be really no point in

trying to farm almonds out here.

In fact, these days about one in three bites of food you eat wouldn't be possible

without commercial bee pollination.

You know, they'll go from almonds to plums to cherries to apples to vine crops, to pit fruits,

to cotton, to lima beans, to watermelons, and then their season is over.

As important as bees have become for farming, there's also increasing signs that bees are in trouble.

Adult bees leave the hive and never come back, leaving the babies to die.

Researchers blame pesticides, disease, and parasites.

In the decades since colony collapse disorder started making headlines across the country,

bees are still dying in record numbers.

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