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How electric vehicles could help pollinators find flowers again

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

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.

The good news? The global shift away from fossil…

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