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112 shares Something is happening to the bees, and something needs to be done, said study author Eduardo Zattara at CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Comahue in Argentina. With citizen science and the ability to share data, records are going up exponentially, but the number of species reported in these records is going down. It s not a bee cataclysm yet, but what we can say is that wild bees are not exactly thriving.
While there are many studies about declining bee populations, these are usually at local, regional, and country levels on different continents or focused on a specific type of bee.
Some are visible, such as dust, whereas others cannot be seen by the naked eye.
Materials such as metals, microplastics, soil and chemicals can be in particulate matter.
Particulate matter (or PM) is described in micrometres. The two main ones mentioned in reports and studies are PM10 (less than 10 micrometres) and PM2.5 (less than 2.5 micrometres).
Air pollution comes from burning fossil fuels, cars, cement making and agriculture
Scientists measure the rate of particulates in the air by cubic metre.
Particulate matter is sent into the air by a number of processes including burning fossil fuels, driving cars and steel making.