Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

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Exclusive: Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review

The world's insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a "catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems", according to the first global scientific review. More than 40 per cent of...

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