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The Web of Life Is Unraveling

The Web of Life Is Unraveling

SOURCE: TruthDig DATE: March 3, 2019 SNIP: The biggest agricultural authority in the world has warned that the web of life is coming apart as the loss of biodiversity increases. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations says the wholesale...
The Insect Apocalypse Is Here

The Insect Apocalypse Is Here

SOURCE: The New York Times DATE: November 27, 2018 SNIP: By one measure, bugs are the wildlife we know best, the nondomesticated animals whose lives intersect most intimately with our own: spiders in the shower, ants at the picnic, ticks buried in the skin. We...
Drying Canadian wetland drives muskrat decline

Drying Canadian wetland drives muskrat decline

SOURCE: Stanford University EARTH DATE: November 26, 2018 SNIP: 46 years of satellite imagery show the Peace-Athabasca Delta has been drying since the 1970s, significantly reducing muskrat habitat. “The ecological impacts are not limited to muskrat – they extend far...