Humanity Is Killing Off Thousands of Species. But It’s Creating Them, Too

  By Lizzie Wade | Wired | June 28, 2016 DURING WORLD WAR II, Londoners often sought shelter from German bombs in the city’s subway tunnels. There, they encountered another type of enemy: hordes of voracious mosquitoes. These weren’t your typical aboveground mosquitoes. They were natives of the metro, born in pools of standing water that pockmarked … Continue reading Humanity Is Killing Off Thousands of Species. But It’s Creating Them, Too