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  1. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … it spread with such tenacity? The short answer: heedless human meddling with Mother Earth. We pull at the strings of … New York, he and his team have uncovered some of the key dynamics in the Lyme disease system. Through long-term … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  2. Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?

    … driving safer, but its corrosive impacts on roads and human health need addressing. Photo by Duncan … because of chloride salts. Cars and safety are also impacted: chloride ions damage the external protective layer … states the US Environmental Protection Agency. Chinese state media CCTV reported that, after the devastating winter …

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  3. Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward

    … chickadees, tufted titmouses, and house wrens were also impacted. The team published their findings in Nature … range, the crows were considered to have been significantly impacted by West Nile virus. Histogram bars in lower right corners show the yearly number of reported human infections in each region. Around the same time …

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  4. New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison

    … Land-use & Human Impacts , … humans across Eurasia, and bison population and dispersal dynamics. Historical records, fossil evidence, and ancient … After reconstructing 21,000 years of European bison range dynamics, the team concluded that the bison’s range began …

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  5. Cary Institute partners on $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife

    Human Health , … in a lab. Virologist Michael Letko of Washington State University will engineer parts of the virus strains … lead this portion of the study.  Understanding these dynamics should help to improve assessments of risk to …

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  6. Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents

    … project will monitor how changing seasons, land use, and human behavior influence viral outbreaks in wild rodent … contact with people.”  The team will explore these dynamics in wild rodents and the viruses they carry in both … impact of changing land use on rodent populations and viral dynamics. Rodents will be monitored across different types …

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  7. Dr. Winslow D. Hansen

    … of current and future forest health across backyards, watersheds, and the planet. This science is relevant to … management, and  feedbacks influence forest and fire dynamics in the western United  States. Prior  to joining … and restoration ecology, and her PhD in ecology from Utah State University. She has conducted plant community research …

    ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15

  8. Road salt pollution in many US lakes could stabilize at or below EPA thresholds

    … level off. The model looked at road density in lake watersheds, the amount of road salt applied per road mile, … high road density and high road salt application in their watersheds. They included some 9-10% of lakes in Illinois … ignores salt inputs from natural rock weathering and from human activities like agriculture and industry, and does not …

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  9. In the Tropics, woody vines make lightning more deadly for forests

    … a nearby tree. They then evaluated how forest structure impacted lightning disturbance severity for 22 lightning … feedback loop could have major implications for the dynamics of liana-tree competition and forest carbon … is needed to identify the tree species that will be most impacted, those that will be resilient, and how this will …

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  10. Victoria Kelly

    … Data from the program have been used to understand the dynamics of road salt and the effects of climate change on … and monitoring of water at the landscape scale. Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, and How to Get There and The State of the Environment, Dutchess County . …

    ltumblety - 08/01/2023 - 09:43