No buzz for bees: Media coverage of pollinator decline.

ABSTRACT: Although widespread declines in insect biomass and diversity are increasing concerns within the scientific community, it remains unclear whether attention to pollinator declines has also increased within information sources serving the general public. Examining patterns of journalistic attention to the pollinator population crisis can also inform efforts to raise awareness about the importance of declines of insect species providing ecosystem services beyond pollination. We used the Global News Index developed by the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to track news attention to pollinator topics in nearly 25 million news items published by two American national newspapers and four international wire services over the past four decade

SUBMITTER: Althaus SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7812767 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature