Thursday, October 19, 2017

Plummeting insect population signals potential "ecological Armageddon"

Over the past three decades, the insect population has collapsed by 75% in nature reserves studied by scientists in Germany. Although the data gathered for this study was from a specific region of the world, it carries implications for a global ecology struggling to adapt to rapidly changing climate and environmental conditions. While many entomophobes may cheer the decrease in numbers of insects, it may have grave consequences for the broader ecosystem. “We appear to be making vast tracts of land...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/plummeting-insect-population-signals-potential-ecological-armageddon
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