When fun time from the Bay Areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news at now at 9, a red Flag Warning is in effect for the East And North bay hills and also the Santa Cruz mountains all areas parts from drought. But this warning issued because of the potential for dry lightning. A couple of strikes is all it takes and there are so many possibilities. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron, 4 news at 9 oclock tonight. Im Justine Waltman of Jonathan Mccall Kron fours. Gayle ong spent the day in the East Bay showing us how crews there are getting ready. They area. Firefighters are staffed up with strike teams dozers and Air Support preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. Firefighters are keeping a close eye on the hills and mopntains. A red Flag Warning is in effect monsoonal moisture from arizona could create dry thunderstorms here in the Bay Area. The concern dry lightning sparking new wildfires. We do have. Of the few dozers that we can our disposal. You know
Their life would be pretty di, revise without all the foods and, and be honest, truth is we couldnt Feed Everybody with insects. So whether you love them all loads them. We really do need, in fact, according to the European Parliament data, about a 3rd of bees and batter fly. Populations are declining and 10 percent of these and butterfly pieces are actually dangers. Massive amounts of insects have disappeared in the past few decades alone. So what kind of an environmental effect are we looking at all ready . Well, if, if we dont do something about it pretty urgently, when were looking at the kind of the collapse of the functioning of ecosystems elementary grind to a halt. If we continue to lose insects, not just extinction, but its the luck. Its the, the falls in abundance of species that are probably really most crucial has been some really dramatic evidence. For example, from germany, where a long study finds that the, the biomass of fly insects, the way to flying insects fell by 76
The century. These are one of them. What does their extinction mean for our future . Talk to dave colson, professor of biology at the university of Sussex And Author of silent earth burning. In sic apocalypse. Busy dave galsen, professor of biology at the university of Sussex And Author of fallon, earth of burning the in sick polyps. Welcome to our show, pray to have you this pleasure to be here. All right, so when you tell someone that the populations of insects are going down and the most frequent reaction will be what lake. Oh, well, whatever. There would be less of that annoying, buzzing and stinging. Can you summarize . Whereas what exactly happens when we superior and why really shouldnt be happy yet . Of course, i mean, youre absolutely correct. Many people really dont like insects very much and, and they think its a good thing if theyre, if youre insects, but actually its a disaster. So insects make up the bulk of all life on earth of weve named so far about one and a half 1000
Whereas what exactly happens when in this appear and why really shouldnt be happy . Yet, of course youre absolutely correct. Many people really dont like insects very much and they think its a good thing if theyre, if youre insects, but actually its a disaster. So insects make up the bulk of all life on earth of weve named so far about one and a half 1000000 species of animal plant on our planet of which 1100000 different types of insect. So they are bio diversity ready or big chunk of it. And the food for many of the organisms with insect says lots of birds and baths and small mammals and freshwater fish. And im, phoebe ends and lizards. They all eat insects at the insects go. They will go but insects also do lots of other things that are really important, like they control crop pests. They, theyre really important in recycling. They recycle dead bodies. Dead trees leaves all sorts of organic material. They break dire, and they keep the soil healthy. They distribute seeds, and of cour
Personal newspaper the Washington Post. This new national emergency Kamala Harris informed us is the Mass Exodus of women from the workplace. Still some there is Women In America who secretly prefer to raise their own children rather than toil away as Worker Bees for some soulless, publicly traded corporation. Wall street is upset about that of course, so Kamala Harris sounded the alarm. Our female Workforce Emergency she wrote, demands a national solution. Well, five months later we are sad to tell you that that crisis is still ongoing. There are women, even now, who have chosen to skip the hr departments latest Zoom Call on Workplace Diversity Initiativesi and are instead reading their children a bedtime story. And that is a tragedy. And Kamala Harris hasnt done a lot to help. In fact, there is now a Mass Exodus of women from her office. The toxic masculinity is comings from inside the house. This week, politico reported, several top female harris staffers have quit after they say th