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=====The Bugs We Can’t Live Without===== | =====The Bugs We Can’t Live Without===== | ||
[https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bugs-we-cant-live-without-11561042039 WSJ 7/17/2019] | [https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bugs-we-cant-live-without-11561042039 WSJ 7/17/2019 Paywall] | ||
Insect populations are in dramatic decline, and the consequences could be serious for everything from waste management to agriculture | Insect populations are in dramatic decline, and the consequences could be serious for everything from waste management to agriculture | ||
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/17/1871812/-Continued-plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-a-collapse-of-nature?utm_campaign=trending DailyKos 7/17/2019 No Paywall] | |||
"Nearly half of all insect species worldwide are in rapid decline and a third could disappear altogether, according to a study warning of dire consequences for crop pollination and natural food chains. | |||
The recent decline in bugs that fly, crawl, burrow and skitter across still water is part of a gathering "mass extinction," only the sixth in the last half-billion years. | |||
"We are witnessing the largest extinction event on Earth since the late Permian and Cretaceous periods," the authors noted. | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/03/climate-crisis-is-about-to-put-humanity-at-risk-un-scientists-warn The Guardian Biodiversity Crisis UN report 503 2019] | [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/03/climate-crisis-is-about-to-put-humanity-at-risk-un-scientists-warn The Guardian Biodiversity Crisis UN report 503 2019] | ||
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/06/human-society-under-urgent-threat-loss-earth-natural-life-un-report The Guardian Loss of Natural World 5/06/2019] | [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/06/human-society-under-urgent-threat-loss-earth-natural-life-un-report The Guardian Loss of Natural World 5/06/2019] | ||
Revision as of 11:16, 17 July 2019
The Bugs We Can’t Live Without
Insect populations are in dramatic decline, and the consequences could be serious for everything from waste management to agriculture
"Nearly half of all insect species worldwide are in rapid decline and a third could disappear altogether, according to a study warning of dire consequences for crop pollination and natural food chains. The recent decline in bugs that fly, crawl, burrow and skitter across still water is part of a gathering "mass extinction," only the sixth in the last half-billion years. "We are witnessing the largest extinction event on Earth since the late Permian and Cretaceous periods," the authors noted.
