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Increase In CO2 Is Turning Prairie Grass Into Junk Food For Grasshoppers
Resume![A grasshopper sits on a branch of a chamomile. (Kerstin Joensson/AP)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP120608110827-1000x663.jpg)
Grasshopper populations have been declining steadily. And now, research in the grasslands may have discovered why. Climate change — the increase of carbon emissions — is causing prairie grasses to grow but making them less nutritious for insects.
Brian Grimmett of KMUW has the story.
![A storage room on the Kansas State University campus full of brown paper bags with grass samples from the Konza Prairie. (Brian Grimmett/Kansas News Service)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2021/04/LTER-Grasshoppers-03-1000x667.jpeg)
This segment aired on April 28, 2021.