Research shows that some dragonfly and damselfly species may decline to near-extinction by 2100 as a result of climate change and human intervention in their habitats. Yet some freshwater ecosystems could see an increase in such species and more generally in biodiversity.
To use a grim but apt metaphor, the news that 2022 will be the UK’s warmest year on record is another dead canary in the coal mine warning us about the dangers of climate change.
