May 5th, 2011
LOS ANGELES — Bees play an important role in agriculture, pollinating crops and providing us with the natural sweetener, honey. Environmental stresses are taking their tolls on the insects, however, and this year’s Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement has gone to researcher May Berenbaum, who is studying solutions to the bee crisis.




The village of Stella, Missouri, has constructed a veterans’ memorial of attractive design in the center of the village.
Barbara Kessler
Andrew Winston
Danielle Nierenberg
Anthony Swift