Environment & Energy

Some ecologists now believe these declines could mark a new era in which the changing climate overtakes other forms of human damage as the biggest driver of extinction.

“We’re at a new point in human history,” Wagner says. Up until the last decade, “the major drivers of biodiversity losses around the planet were really land degradation and land loss, habitat loss. But I think now that climate change is by far exceeding that.”

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Plant your native plants! And turn off your outdoor lighting too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html


The Insect Apocalypse Is Here