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Plan B: Climate change forces Pakistan beekeepers to widen pursuit of flowers

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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.Summers are spent in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and winters in central Punjab province.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 500 kilometres (around 300 miles) in an increasingly desperate chase to find flowering plants, clean air and moderate temperatures for honey production as climate chan…

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