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The Atlantic writes:
Insects help to keep the world green, by spreading the pollen of 88 percent of flowering plants. Those species account for 30 percent of crop production, with a total value of $361 billion—so a world full of buzzing insect wings is also one of full human stomachs. But pollinators are in trouble. Despite the recent good news that honeybee populations have bounced back slightly in the last year, the general trend is still a downward one in Europe and North America. A third of bee and butterfly species are in decline, beset by parasitic mites, destructive diseases, toxic pesticides, and changing climate. And recently, scientists have started considering another culprit—light pollution.
[...] "This is a very important study, which clearly demonstrates that artificial light at night is a threat to pollination," says Franz Hölker from the University of Hamburg.
Journal Reference: Eva Knop, Leana Zoller, Remo Ryser, Christopher Gerpe, Maurin Hörler & Colin Fontaine, Artificial light at night as a new threat to pollination, Nature 548, 206–209 (10 August 2017), doi:10.1038/nature23288
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @05:09AM (4 children)
Too bad there's no process by which complex phenomena (such as living organisms) can evolve to exist successfully in the environment at hand. I guess everything is doomed.
In other news, billions of years ago: Most of life on Earth is struggling to deal with this widespread pollutant known as oxygen.
BTW, this is such a crap website. Every time I try to post something, I'm told my IP has been blocked, so I post through Tor, which mostly works; however, I'm frequently told that I have an "invalid form key", which makes no sense unless this website is designed by idiots whose only solution is to hack some naive PoS together... oh, wait... that's an exact description of this website!)
(Score: 2) by lx on Sunday August 13 2017, @05:34AM (1 child)
Not everything is doomed. Life of Earth will survive everything we throw at it.
Keep messing up the world.
Life will do fine without us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14 2017, @01:35AM
Some species will survive. Others have not. E.g.
(source [cbbulletin.com])
A significant loss of diversity isn't what I'd describe as "fine."
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @05:37AM
I can post without tor, but I also get the invalid form key crap periodically. Oh well, I'm sure they'll work on it.
I mean, I'm sure they monitor errors for things that need fixing.
I mean, it's obvious that one should, otherwise why bother with errors?
(Score: 2, Informative) by kaszz on Sunday August 13 2017, @06:24AM
Invalid form key usually happens when you have taken to long between clicking "Reply" and clicking "Submit".
I can suspect that a TOR exit node may change IP between requests such that the form key becomes invalid. One possible mitigation is to prepare the text first and then quickly click Reply, paste text and then click Submit within a few seconds.