The bee catastrophe we should be worried about

Picture this: A swarm of bees, millions of them, unleashed and spilling out onto a highway. Sound like the plot of a horror movie? This happened recently in Burlington, Ont. when a truck carrying five million bees spilled its cargo. The incident caused quite a buzz, but experts are saying we’re buzzing about the wrong disaster. The real one is the rapidly declining populations of these bees and how our future might be depending on their fate.

This episode was produced by Saba Eitizaz, Paulo Marques and Brian Bradley.

Audio sources: Global News