Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Bee Expert Honored with Tyler Environmental Prize



VOAVideo: Bee Expert Honored with Tyler Environmental Prize

Bees play an important role in agriculture, pollinating crops and providing us with the natural sweetener, honey. Environmental stresses are taking their tolls on the insects, however, and this year's Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement has gone to researcher May Berenbaum, who is studying solutions to the bee crisis. Mike O'Sullivan spoke with her in Los Angeles.