Bumblebees Decimated by Climate Change: Study

Bumblebees Decimated by Climate Change: Study

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All bees — all pollinators, actually — are under stress these days, but bumblebees are especially affected by climate change, according to a new study.

Other species are mitigating the effects of warming by expanding their territories northward, but not bumblebees, found the study, published in Science. In fact, bumblebees appear to be contracting their territories.

Bumblebees Decimated by Climate Change: Study

-Discovery News 7/13/2015

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