Race to save UK honey bee

Alison Benjamin and her partner Brian McCallum launched their bee-keeping mission earlier this year from their south London home. A deadly virus is wiping out bee colonies in Britain and some scientists are warning that bees - so vital for the pollination of most of our crops - face extinction within ten years.

Reuters | March 31, 2009

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