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James Ryalls, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading

How electric vehicles could help pollinators find flowers again

Richard Casebow, CC BY-NC-SA

A hidden threat is making it harder for bees, butterflies and other pollinators to do their job: air pollution is scrambling the floral scents they use to find flowers.

Colleagues and I have just published research showing that ground-level ozone and nitrogen oxides (two pollutants strongly linked to fossil fuel use) significantly impair pollinators’ ability to locate and feed from flowers.

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