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
2. What is climate change?
3. Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers 
4. Weaving insect wildlife back into the tapestry of life
5. What are insects and why do we need them?
6. Reversing Pollinator Decline is Key to Feeding the Future
7. Weaving insect wildlife back into the tapestry of life 
8. Encyclopedia of Insects.
9. The Economic Value of Ecological Services Provided by Insects
10. Why Are Swarms Of Locusts Wreaking Havoc In East Africa?
11. Responses of forest insect pests to climate change: not so simple. 
12. Pests that Love Moisture.
13. Climate change could speed mosquito evolution 
14. Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines 

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