A honey bee pollinating coffee flowers in Kona, Hawaii. Alvis Upitis / Photographer’s Choice RF / Getty Images
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The loss of pollinator insects is putting some of the most popular tropical crops in the world — like cocoa, coffee, mango and watermelon — at risk, a new study led by researchers from University College London (UCL) and the Natural History Museum has found.
The research team looked at how climate change and land use modification have led to serious effects for the pollination of crops worldwide, a press release from UCL said.
The scientists cataloged 3,080 species of insect pollinators and gathered data from 1,507 agricultural sites across the globe….
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