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Charts showing declining and threatened insects and vertebrates, according to IUCN data |
Nearly half of all insect species worldwide are in rapid decline and a third could disappear altogether, according to a study warning of dire consequences for crop pollination and natural food chains.
"Unless we change our way of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades," concluded the peer-reviewed study, which is set for publication in April.
The recent decline in bugs that fly, crawl, burrow and skitter across still water is part of a gathering "mass extinction," only the sixth in the last half-billion years.
Charts showing declining and threatened insects and vertebrates, according to IUCN data
"We are witnessing the largest extinction event on Earth since the late Permian and Cretaceous periods," the authors noted.
The Permian end-game 252 million years ago snuffed out more than 90 percent of the planet's life forms, while the abrupt finale of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago saw the demise of land dinosaurs...
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One-in-six species of bees have gone regionally extinct somewhere in the worldTilføj billedtekst |
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Taken today this cold morning, February 12, 2019, compelling new pictures from the North Zealand of Denmark (just outside where i live) ... PS: Look at the "PERFECTLY" Lines of Cumulus clouds / cirrocumulus clouds or small round clouds, like smoke rings with crossing chemtrails - HAARP created?
NOTE: Due to time constraints, we no longer report every event, so the numbers are lower than they should be.
9th February 2019 - 300,000 cattle dead after flooding in Queensland, Australia.
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6th February 2019 - 20,000 sea birds 'suddenly die', as hundreds wash ashore along the coast of Netherlands.
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4th February 2019 - 7 giant deep sea fish wash up dead on the coast of Japan.
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4th February 2019 - Thousands of cattle dying due to drought in Australia.
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1st February 2019 - Thousands of dead fish found floating in a river in Wolgast, Germany.
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