Global warming is to blame for a “drastic decline” in the bumblebee population in North America and Europe, reports The Guardian, citing a new that “suggests the likelihood of a bumblebee population surviving in any given place has declined by 30% in the course of a single human generation. The researchers [ at the University of Ottawa] say the rates of decline appear to be ‘consistent with a mass extinction.'”
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