Eleven-year-old Markela represents a fifth generation of beekeepers, but climate change is making it so that she may not be able to carry on the family tradition. Wildfires, heatwaves, and droughts that are increasing in intensity and frequency due to the climate crisis, are putting bees and the ecosystems that depend on them at risk. Without coordinated, concrete actions to reduce emissions, things will get far worse for the health and wellbeing of the bees and of children like Markela.
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