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Wildflower power! Urban meadows take root across Poland’s cities as eco-entrepreneur battles for a greener future

Shunning more traditional green features such as cultivated flowerbeds and lawns, more and more cities such as Warsaw and Katowice are looking to introduce wildflower meadows to their urban tissue. Łąki Kwietne/Facebook

Karol Podyma’s Łąki Kwietne firm has blazed a trail both home and abroad in its quest to fill towns with eco-minded meadows.

So good to “bee” back home: houses for winged insects open again after restoration

Insect houses in Warsaw get makeover as a result of a Greenpeace initiative.

The bee’s knees: researchers come up with new way of producing dried honey

The new technique could help produce honey for a food industry looking for an alternative to sugar.

Honey, I’m home! Giant bee thought to be EXTINCT makes miraculous comeback

Declared extinct by ecologists in 2002, the 2.5cm Black Bee has now been spotted in six permanent habitats after ecologists urged Facebook users to send in photos.

Green money: Lublin rolls out green budget for environmental projects

Lublin will invest in green projects to make it a “green city, drawing people with its originality and diverse vegetation”.

Getting the city buzz. Polish bees go urban and move into cities

Forget the countryside, bees and their hives are now part of the urban landscape.

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