Climate change could threaten monarch mass migration

Suitable habitat in Mexico may shift south, fracturing existing migration routes

Monarch butterflies (Danus plexippus) rest on rocks in Mexico’s Biosphere Reserve of the Monarch Butterfly, a protected area where millions of the insects spend the winter before migrating north in the spring.

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