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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Damian Carrington Environment editor

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis

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Global heating is helping pests such as planthoppers thrive. Photograph: Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

The destruction of food supplies by crop pests is being supercharged by the climate crisis, with losses expected to surge, an analysis has concluded.

Researchers said the world was lucky to have so far avoided a major shock and was living on borrowed time, with action needed to diversify crops and boost natural predators of pests.

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