Climate crisis threatens Pakistan’s bees and honey trade | Climate Crisis News

Under a dry, smoggy sky, a beekeeper in Pakistan’s Punjab province carefully loads boxes filled with tens of thousands of bees onto the back of a truck.

Together, they will travel 500km (about 300 miles) in an increasingly desperate chase to find flowering plants, clean air, and moderate temperatures for honey production as climate change and pollution threaten the industry.

Pakistan’s beekeepers typically move seasonally to avoid stifling heat or freezing cold. Summers are spent in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and winters in central Punjab province.

But weather patterns made unpredictable by climate change, coupled with some of the worst pollution in the world, mean beekeepers must move more frequently and travel…