Thirty-five years ago, scientist Brad Lister left the Puerto Rican Luquillo rainforest after studying the arthropods of the region. He left an area that had a thriving insect population that provided food for all of the birds in the national park. But, when he returned in 2018, Lister and his colleague, Andres Garcia, made a shocking discovery - 98 percent of the ground insects had vanished. Lister says that he and Garcia knew right away that something wasn’t right. “We knew that something...
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