Read this recent opinion piece in the Washington Post

As well as these past blog posts: 

 NYT - the silence of bugs   

​Latest in Insect Declines - Click here and here and here

​World-wide decline in insect populations. Click Here.
Biological Conservation, January 2019,  232: 8–27

Atmospheric measurements show that deforestation and rapid local warming have reduced or eliminated the capacity of the eastern Amazonian forest to absorb carbon dioxide — with worrying implications for future global warming.

Read more about it in these articles -  Inside Climate News,   Nature,  CNN
Read the research - Here