Green Daily

It was already really weird and sad to hear about the disappearing-bee problem last year. (In case you missed it, the story is that a lot of bee colonies are vanishing from farms where they used to be instrumental in pollination. The causes are mysterious, but the consequences are drastic - check out National Geographic's coverage, here.)

Now, we read that the honored maker of premium delicious frozen treats, Haagen-Dazs, worries that they'll have to raise prices on certain flavors which require bee pollination to exist (think of strawberries, walnuts, raspberries...they all need bees). The H-D wizards are so worried about this prospect that they're funding research into the sources of colony collapse disorder (CCD). They're also going to release a flavor this spring, "Vanilla Honey Bee," which will be sold to raise money for more research, and which just might be delicious enough to blot the fear of an ice cream-less world out of our minds. Maybe.