Climate Change and Other Threats To Insects

A podcast takeover by students in a course dedicated to helping plan the Nobel Conference, and taught by conference co-chair, biology professor Margaret Bloch Qazi. This episode explores the role climate change and other factors play in the loss of insect species. Sources: 1. ‘Windshield effect’ taken to new extremes in U.N. biodiversity report [https://news.cornell.edu/media-relations/tip-sheets/windshield-effect-taken-new-extremes-un-biodiversity-report] 2. What is climate change? [https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change] 3. Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers  [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320718313636] 4. Weaving insect wildlife back into the tapestry of life [https://theconversation.com/weaving-insect-wildlife-back-into-the-tapestry-of-life-132535] 5. What are insects and why do we need them? [https://www.huck.psu.edu/institutes-and-centers/insect-biodiversity-center/why-we-need-insects] 6. Reversing Pollinator Decline is Key to Feeding the Future [https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2016/06/24/reversing-pollinator-decline-key-feeding-future] 7. Weaving insect wildlife back into the tapestry of life  [https://theconversation.com/weaving-insect-wildlife-back-into-the-tapestry-of-life-132535] 8. Encyclopedia of Insects. 9. The Economic Value of Ecological Services Provided by Insects [https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/56/4/311/229003] 10. Why Are Swarms Of Locusts Wreaking Havoc In East Africa? [https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/807483297/why-are-swarms-of-locusts-wreaking-havoc-in-east-africa] 11. Responses of forest insect pests to climate change: not so simple.  [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214574519300227] 12. Pests that Love Moisture. [https://thebiggreenk.com/blog/11-pests-that-love-moisture/] 13. Climate change could speed mosquito evolution  [https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/04/climate-change-could-foster-rapid-mosquito-evolution/] 14. Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines  [https://www.pnas.org/content/118/2/e2002547117] Connect with the Nobel Conference on social media: Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NobelConference Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nobel_conference/ Tiktok at https://www.tiktok.com/@nobelconference?lang=en