BAER Institute alumna Kate Duffy publishes paper on climate change’s major extinction threat to insects

A new paper published by BAER Institute alumna Kate Duffy in the October edition of Nature Climate Change reveals that it isn’t just rising global temperatures that pose a risk to insects around the world—the fluctuations in temperature that accompany climate change could be even more dangerous, and lead to catastrophic events that wipe out entire insect populations.

The project has been featured by Northeastern University (where Duffy completed her PhD) and NASA, which supported and helped to fund the work. You can read the full Nature Climate Change paper here.