Spinning Wind Turbines Kill Nearly a Million Bats a Year. Researchers Aim to Find Out Why.

Yale e360
Sep 26, 2023, 12:00 am105 pts
Land-based wind turbines kill as many as 880,000 bats a year, wiping out so many threatened bats that at least one species could soon become endangered without preventative action, according to a recent study. And since bats eliminate pests from farms and help to pollinate plants, their loss ripples through the…

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