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Bee Desk

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Honeybees Demand Reparations For 30,000 Years Of Stolen Honey

GENEVA

Dripping honeycomb frame next to a typed DEMAND letter and an empty honey jar.

Representatives of the world’s honeybee population issued a formal demand for reparations Monday, claiming humanity owes a massive settlement to compensate for approximately 30,000 years of stolen honey.

Nation

Humans Refuse Bee Reparations, Citing 1,200 Generations of Separation From Alleged Theft

WASHINGTON

A single bee sitting on a thick binder stamped DENIED on an empty conference table.

Human officials formally rejected the honeybee demand for 30,000 years of back honey Monday, arguing that no living person stole a drop of it and that the claimants…

World

Honeybees Add Nature Documentaries To Reparations Claim, Citing Century Of Unlicensed Pollination Footage

GENEVA

Wildlife film camera aimed at a beehive with an invoice clipped to the lens hood.

Legal representatives of the world's honeybee population amended their reparations claim Thursday to include what they called "a century of explicit pollination footage"…

Science

Scientists Stunned To Learn Bees May Be Dying Because Humans Keep Taking Their Food

DAVIS, CA

Stacked wooden honeycomb frames beside a shelf of full honey bottles with no labels.

After more than twenty years and several hundred million dollars in research, a team of entomologists announced Monday that bees may be dying because humans keep taking…