Justin Fox, Columnist

The Bees Are Better, But They're Not All Right

Total population collapse? No. Weaker insects? Yes. Problematic pesticides? Probably.

August 13, 2017 at 10:00 AM EDT

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

Not so tough anymore.
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Remember when all the bees were dying? When we were headed for, as Time magazine put it in a cover story in 2013, "A World Without Bees"?

I do remember that, so I was pleasantly surprised to see this headline earlier this month: "Bees Are Bouncing Back From Colony Collapse Disorder."

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