Professor Rosemary Collier from Warwick Life Sciences and the Warwick Crop Centre comments on new research into insect numbers:

"The new paper, ‘Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances published in Science, by van Klink et al. confirms, what to me is very obvious, that through terrestrial land-use change, we have altered and reduced the size of habitats that are suitable for a good number of species of insect …"

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Britain's dairy industry produces around 13.5 billion litres of raw milk each year and uses roughly 13,500 litres of water in the process. In an article for Warwick's Knowledge Centre, Rob Lillywhite from Warwick Crop Centre explains why climate change will throw a greater focus on water footprints in food production.