Mounting threat to pollinators undermining $200bn of environmental services

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Cocktail of pressures leading to declining pollinator populations around the world, posing serious risk to agriculture and biodiversity

The pollination services provided by insects are worth over $200bn a year to the global economy, but those services are now in decline threatening human food supplies and ecosystem functions. That is...

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