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Bees and other pollinators face increasing risks to their survival, threatening foods such as apples, blueberries, chocolate and coffee, the first global assessment of pollinators showed on Friday. The 20,000 or so species of pollinators are key to hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of crops each year — from fruits and vegetables to coffee. Yet 2 out of 5 species of invertebrate pollinators, such as bees and butterflies, are on the path toward extinction.
