“What’s the Buzz?” examines the phenomenon of the bee population decline in California’s Central Valley and the Great Plains as these are where bees are most concentrated and their decline most prominent. The podcast explains how climate change contributes to the rapid decline of these populations as well as how this would affect the United States economically and provisionally. Based on information from the EPA, the American Beekeeping Federation, and the United States Geological Survey, it was concluded that climate change does contribute to the deaths of bee populations in the Great Plains and the Central Valley both directly and indirectly. The Great Plains and California’s Central Valley are experiencing much of the brunt of climate change in the form of increased temperatures, droughts, fires, etc which lead to bee starvation, exhaustion, and proneness to disease. While other factors also contribute to the decline of bee populations, climate change compounds about every other factor. Without our bee populations, the U.S agricultural industry would experience a hardship like no other. In creating this podcast, I first did extensive research on the topic to form the message and content. 
References
Fresno, and Alan Sano. “Farmers Are Living the Facts of Climate Change. By Focusing on Soil, They Can Lead the Way on Climate Adaptation.” Fresnobee, The Fresno Bee, 20 Sept. 2019, www.fresnobee.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article235307222.html. 
“Honey Bees Are Pollinators: Pollination Facts.” Abf.org, American Beekeeping Federation , www.abfnet.org/page/PollinatorFacts#:~:text=Crop%20yield%20and%20quality%20wou ld,dependent%20on%20honey%20bee%20pollination. 
Honey Bee Helpers: It Takes a Village to Conserve a Colony, 20 June 2019, www.usgs.gov/news/honey-bee-helpers-it-takes-village-conserve-colony.
 Le Conte, Yves & Navajas, Maria. (2008). Climate change: Impact on honey bee populations and diseases. Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics). 27. 485-97, 499. 
“The Benefit of Bees.” The Benefit of Bees, www.new-ag.info/00-5/focuson/focuson8.html. What Climate Change Means For California. United State Environmental Protection Agency, Aug. 2016, www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/climate-change-ca.pdf. 
Works Cited (Sound) 
Bees.wav: https://freesound.org/people/smand/sounds/521116/ Creator: smannd 
492361__jacobus0987__casual-indoor-walking.wav: https://freesound.org/people/jacobus0987/sounds/492361/ Creator: jacobus0987 
201159__kiddpark__cash-register.mp3: https://freesound.org/people/kiddpark/sound s/201159 Creator: kiddpark 
Cinematic Impacts: https://freesound.org/people/BurghRecords/sounds/456102/ Creator: BurghRecords 
Lost Frontier: filmmusic.io Artist: Kevin Macleod 
Infados: filmmusic.io Artist: Kevin Macleod 
Floating Cities: filmmusic.io Artisti: Kevin Macleod 
Moonrise: freemusicarchive.org Artist: Chad Crouch 
Ellipsis: freemusicarchive.org Artist: Chad Crouch

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