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Buzz the alarm: Climate change puts squeeze on bumblebees
2015-07-09 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Global warming is putting the squeeze on bumblebees. In the most comprehensive study ever conducted of the impacts of climate change on critical pollinators, scientists have discovered that global warming is rapidly shrinking the area where these bees are found in both North America and Europe. Researchers examined more than 420,000 historical and current records of many species of bumblebees--and confirm that bumblebees are in steep decline at a continental scale because of climate change. The...
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Buzz Kill For Bumblebees: Climate Change Is Shrinking Their Range
2015-07-09 22:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: There's new evidence that wild bees, some of nature's most industrious pollinators of wildflowers and crops, are getting squeezed by our planet's changing climate. The evidence comes from a century of bee observations, carried out across North America and Europe. Biologist Jeremy Kerr, at the University of Ottawa, decided to look specifically at sightings of bumblebees. These are the big, fuzzy bees that live wild, not the honeybees that beekeepers manage. There are dozens of different bumblebee...
Bumblebees being crushed by climate change
2015-07-09 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Now: As the climate changes, plants and animals are on the move. So far, many are redistributing in a similar pattern: As habitat that was once too cold warms up, species are expanding their ranges toward the poles, whereas boundaries closer to the equator have remained more static. Bumblebees, however, appear to be a disturbing exception, according to a study in Science today. A comprehensive look at dozens of species, it finds that many North American and European bumblebees are failing to track...
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Scientists propose international effort assist bumblebees
2015-07-09 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A comprehensive study of bumblebees across two continents over the the past century has unequivocally linked their decline to rapidly rising global temperatures resulting from man-made climate change, scientists have said. A detailed review on reported sightings of 67 different species of bumblebee across Europe and North America between 1901 and 2010 has indicated that the key pollinating insects of crops are being squeezed like a vice by rising temperatures. Over the past 40 years, when...
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Warm weather boosts hopes for rarest bumblebee's revival in Britain
2014-05-19 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Warm spring conditions should help Britain's rarest bumblebee as wildlife experts reintroduce a new batch of queens to help boost the species. The short-haired bumblebee vanished from the UK in 1988, having suffered declines over the previous 60 years as its habitat was lost, and was officially declared extinct in 2000. A scheme to reintroduce the species has seen experts collecting short-haired bumblebee queens from Sweden, where they are found in good numbers, and releasing them at the RSPB's...
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