Climate Change to Bring Plagues of Insects?
New research from the National Science Foundation suggests a warming Earth could mean a significant increase in voracious, plant-eating insects.
Scientists studying the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period about 55 million years ago when global carbon dioxide levels spiked rapidly, found that plant fossils from that time show noticeably more insect damage than plants from before or after the PETM. They [...]
