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New Research Suggests Climate Change is Wiping Out Bumblebees
2015-07-10 19:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
io9: A study led by Canadian researchers shows that bumblebees are disappearing in many areas where they lived several decades ago, and climate change is to blame. Unlike most animals--and for reasons not entirely known--bumblebees cant move north to cope with warmer temperatures. They dont fare well in warmer climates because they evolved in cooler regions, away from the tropics. This makes them particularly vulnerable to changing climatic conditions. To learn exactly how climate change is impacting...
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Climate Change Is a Major Buzz Kill for Bumblebees
2015-07-10 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The humble bumblebee is feeling the squeeze from climate change. Research shows that its southern range is being reduced as the planet warmsand yet it seems to show no sign of migrating northwards to safety. This unwillingness to head for cooler climes could prove disastrous, and has prompted some scientists to suggest that humans may need to intervene by creating refuges for the bees away from the heat. Jeremy Kerr, a biologist at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and colleagues report in...
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Climate Change Is Shrinking Where Bumblebees Range, Research Finds
2015-07-10 03:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Climate change has narrowed the range where bumblebees are found in North America and Europe in recent decades, according to a study published Thursday. The paper, published in the journal Science, suggests that warming temperatures have caused bumblebee populations to retreat from the southern limits of their travels by as much as 190 miles since the 1970s. Logic would suggest that the northern reaches of their home turf would shift to higher latitudes by a corresponding distance. But that has...
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Bumblebees and Narrowing Range: Climate Change is Only Reason
2015-07-10 03:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: In case you wondered if honeybees were squeezed but bumblebees were fairly present in your own garden, it seems that the range of bumblebees is drastically narrowing due to climate change as well. Researchers at the University of Vermont and University of Ottawa recently published their findings from the most comprehensive study conducted yet on the impacts of warming on critical pollinators, in the journal Science. The scientists examined more than 420,000 historical and current records of many...
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Buzzkill: global warming shrinks range pollinating bumblebees
2015-07-10 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming is shrinking the terrain where bumblebees live in North America and Europe, with these vital pollinators departing the southernmost and hottest parts of their ranges while failing to move north into cooler climes, scientists say. Their study, published on Thursday, used records from 1901 to 2010 to track 67 bumblebee species, finding that the insects have surrendered about 185 miles (300 km) from the southern end of the regions they called home on both continents. The researchers...
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