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Climate change is killing off Earth’s little creatures

  • Written by Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
A jumping spider, which uses sharp eyesight to hunt its prey. ThomasShahan.com/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Climate change gets blamed for a lot of things these days: inundating small islands, fueling catastrophic fires, amping-up hurricanes and smashing Arctic sea ice.

But a global review of insect research has found another casualty: 40% of insect species are...

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