Bees have been rapidly and mysteriously disappearing from rural areas, with grave implications for agriculture. But bees seem to flourish in urban environments -- and cities need their help, too. Noah Wilson-Rich suggests that urban beekeeping might play a role in revitalizing both a city and a species.

Bees are dying off in record numbers, but ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich is interested in something else: Where are bees healthy and thriving? To find out, he recruited citizen scientists across the US to set up beehives in their backyards, gardens and rooftops. Learn how these little data factories are changing what we know about the habitats bees ...

Before sending bees into space, we must shift our perspective away from why bees are dying, toward why they are surviving: Habitat diversity. Engaging speaker and bee ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich uses bee hives, honey DNA and citizen science to capture data about our environment, our botanical mix and ways to take those lessons around the world an...