(CNN) -- Flying insects are contaminating new environments by eating microplastics in polluted waters and carrying them through the air, a new study has found. UK researchers found that microplastics ...

New evidence suggests there is some truth to anecdotes about today’s car windscreens being covered in fewer dead insects than in the past. A UK citizen science survey has found the number of flying ...

A UK-wide decline in bug splats recorded on car number plates indicates an "alarming" fall in the number of flying insects, UK scientists said in a survey published Wednesday. The 2024 Bugs Matter ...

Concern about insect losses has grown steadily, but most evidence comes from small studies focused on certain species or places. That makes it hard to understand what is happening at larger scales. A ...

Trillions of insects embark, largely unnoticed, on epic journeys every year across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and it is only now, as their numbers suffer huge declines, that scientists are tra ...