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Fewer insects, fewer nutritious crops: pollinator decline puts our health at risk

Biodiversity loss is directly threatening human health and welfare, according to new research led by the University of Bristol. The study, published in Nature today [6 May] reveals, for the first time, how the decline of insect pollinators undermines essential ecosystem services that support human nutrition and livelihoods. Biodiversity also plays a vital role in supporting people’s everyday health and resilience, too.

Honeybee on thistle
Fewer insects, fewer nutritious crops: pollinator decline puts our health at risk

Biodiversity loss is directly threatening human health and welfare, according to new research led by the University of Bristol. The study, published in Nature today [6 May] reveals, for the first time, how the decline of insect pollinators undermines essential ecosystem services that support human nutrition and livelihoods. Biodiversity also plays a vital role in supporting people’s everyday health and resilience, too.

a reconstruction of a large mawsoniid coelacanth from the British Rhaetian.
Multiple new species of “living fossil” fish found hiding in plain sight after more than 150 years

The modern coelacanth is a famous ‘living fossil’, long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the Indian Ocean in 1938. Since then, dozens of examples have been found, but their fossil history is patchy. In a new study, Jacob Quinn and colleagues from the University of Bristol and University of Uruguay in Montevideo have identified coelacanths in museum collections that had been missed for 150 years.

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