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Vital to food output, bees and other pollinators at risk
2016-02-26 09:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Bees and other pollinators face increasing risks to their survival, threatening foods such as apples, blueberries and coffee worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, the first global assessment of pollinators showed on Friday. Pesticides, loss of habitats to farms and cities, disease and climate change were among threats to about 20,000 species of bees as well as creatures such as birds, butterflies, beetles and bats that fertilize flowers by spreading pollen, it said. "Pollinators are...
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