Jeppe Blak-Nielsen has his own very specific reason for appreciating windmills: "Whenever the turbines at Middel-grunden are running," the Copenhagen yachtsman says, "I know the wind is perfect for sailing."
Our Summer 2006 cover story, "The Vanishing Bee," by contributing editor Sharon Levy, described the mounting threat to American honeybees from pesticides and habitat loss, particularly in California's Central Valley.