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Studies: Migratory birds face multiple threats from climate change
This article discusses some new studies that show that migratory birds face multiple threats from climate change. Some two billion birds migrate over the Gulf Coast each spring. The highest traffic occurs in Texas, with as many as 26,000 birds per kilometer of airspace each night, 5.4 times the number […]
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Report: Climate change could increase foodborne illness by energizing flies
This article discusses how climate change could increase foodborne illness by energizing flies. Livelier flies could land on more food, leaving Campylobacter behind in their tiny footsteps.
Their website has lots of information.
Warmer springs and summers could make house flies friskier, spreading diarrhea-causing bacteria to more places. As a result,
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Study: Global tally of the insect apocalypse – it’s alarming.
This article discusses a new global tally of the insect apocalypse. It’s alarming. When insects go extinct, other species follow.
Another article discusses the same issue, as does a third where Canada defers an insecticide ban as study finds 40% of insects on verge of extinction
Insects are the […]
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Report: Why are insects in decline, and can we do anything about it?
This article discusses why insects are in decline, and whether we can do anything about it.
How about insects? The new global review says it’s even worse for bugs, with the proportion of insect species declining being double that for vertebrates. The insect decline is at least a […]
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Study: Solar Farms Shine a Ray of Hope on Bees and Butterflies
This article discusses how solar farms help bees and butterflies. A trend of planting wildflowers on solar sites could maintain habitat for disappearing bees and butterflies.
Minnesota-based Great River Energy (pdf) has also introduced pollinator-supporting plants—such as purple prairie clover and wild lupine—at several of its solar sites, […]
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Study: Doctors cite climate change for rise in animal bites, U.S. health care costs
This article discusses how doctors are finding that climate change is increasing the number of animal bites and thus health care costs. Researchers also note that poorer families are at higher risk of animal bites.
Stanford researchers warn that the number of animal bites is likely to rise amid climate […]
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Study: Extinction toll may be far worse than thought
This article discusses how quickly species are going extinct. Yet again, researchers have confirmed that climate change threatens the natural world with a soaring extinction toll. The danger may be much higher than anyone imagined.
Two scientists want the world to think again about the extinction toll, the rate at which […]
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Climate change clobbers Colorado and the West, unfurling fire, drought, insects and heat
This article discusses how the West will be affected by climate change – it will not be good. As U.S. government steps out, Colorado scientists and Gov.-elect Jared Polis aim to aid adaptation scramble.
Fires burn more frequently and uncontrollably, ravaging the West’s pines, firs and spruces, destroying lives and buildings.
Multiplying […]
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The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
This article discusses the impact climate change is having on insects. What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?
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Habitat loss threatens all our futures, world leaders warned
This article discusses habitat loss threatens all our futures, world leaders warned. Biodiversity experts say mass extinction of wildlife is as big a danger as climate change.
As a UN conference convenes to work out a new deal for protecting the planet’s biodiversity, the focus falls on the nations that […]
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