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Study Estimates 18.7 Million Bat Deaths at U.S. Wind Sites

In October 2026, a study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers from the USGS, a U.S. science agency, and their partners studied bat deaths at U.S. wind sites. All these sites were on land. The study estimates that 18.7 million bats died there from 1981 to 2024. Its national predictions show that bat deaths…

Rewritten with AI from facts reported by USGS. Read the original for the full report.