{"id":5165,"date":"2020-02-01T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T01:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2020-02-01T11:20:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T01:20:32","slug":"plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/01\/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Plummeting insect numbers &#8216;threaten collapse of nature&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/feb\/10\/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature\">The Guardian<\/a> 2020-02<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The world\u2019s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a \u201ccatastrophic collapse of nature\u2019s ecosystems\u201d, according to the first global scientific review.More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian 2020-02 The world\u2019s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a \u201ccatastrophic collapse of nature\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441,424,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-climate","category-env"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5166,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}