“Insect apocalypse”: From flickering fireflies to lowly dung beetles, insects are vanishing

As the UN biodiversity summit gets underway in Montreal, GLORIA DICKIE, JULIA JANICKI and SIMON SCARR, of Reuters, report on what scientists are calling a global “insect apocalypse”…
“Drastic” fall in bumblebee populations shocks scientists

Rome, Italy Thomson Reuters Foundation When scientist Peter Soroye first saw the figures showing estimated bumblebee populations in North America had fallen by nearly 50 per cent in a single generation, he thought it must be a typo. He checked the numbers – the result of a long-term analysis of bumblebee populations published in the […]