Saving Syria’s war-ravaged bees

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Aug 28, 202623:18Science & Medicine

Syria’s bee population was once considered the largest in the Middle East, but then came the civil war in 2011, plunging the country into years of violent conflict. Only a fraction of its bee colonies survived. A traveli...

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