Insects:
1. 98% loss in some regions
2. entomologists: crisis is global
3. abundance/biodiversity decline
4. other arthropods vanishing too
5. link to bird, lizard, frog declines
6. culprit: habitat destruction
7. also pesticides, climate chaos
8. science now robust/indisputable
1. 98% loss in some regions
2. entomologists: crisis is global
3. abundance/biodiversity decline
4. other arthropods vanishing too
5. link to bird, lizard, frog declines
6. culprit: habitat destruction
7. also pesticides, climate chaos
8. science now robust/indisputable
A definitive answer:
'compelling evidence of a major problem — large-scale declines in the numbers and diversity of insects and other jointed invertebrates known as arthropods'
'insect declines are real, and they’re every bit as severe as had been feared'nature.com/articles/d4158…
'compelling evidence of a major problem — large-scale declines in the numbers and diversity of insects and other jointed invertebrates known as arthropods'
'insect declines are real, and they’re every bit as severe as had been feared'nature.com/articles/d4158…
Potentially across most insect families and around the world:
'when asked how they would rate the insect abundance crisis on a scale of 0 to 10 — 10 being direst — the answers Mongabay received from researchers on six continents ranged from 8 to, yes, 10'
news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-gr…
'when asked how they would rate the insect abundance crisis on a scale of 0 to 10 — 10 being direst — the answers Mongabay received from researchers on six continents ranged from 8 to, yes, 10'
news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-gr…
'Insects and spiders are declining in forests and grasslands across Germany...
Scientists have described the findings as "alarming", saying the losses are driven by intensive agriculture.
They are calling for a "paradigm shift" in land-use policy...'
bbc.com/news/science-e…
Scientists have described the findings as "alarming", saying the losses are driven by intensive agriculture.
They are calling for a "paradigm shift" in land-use policy...'
bbc.com/news/science-e…
'potent link between intensifying heat waves and stunning declines in the abundance of arthropods'
'at a planetary scale, arthropods are suffering from a wide variety of environmental insults. There’s no single reason why their populations are collapsing.'theconversation.com/climate-change…
'at a planetary scale, arthropods are suffering from a wide variety of environmental insults. There’s no single reason why their populations are collapsing.'theconversation.com/climate-change…
