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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
… streams so acid that no fish could survive; and excessive nutrient loads fueled runaway algal growth in Lake Erie. … waste of millions of people into the Hudson River, where concentrations of fecal bacteria were far too high for safe … 1996. Estuaries 19: 890-900. In the late 1960s, two events in Ohio pushed forward national resolve to …
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In the tropics, nitrogen-fixing trees take a hit from herbivores
… of insects and other herbivores were a constraint. Their three part study looked at: (1) whether nitrogen-fixing … traits were also collected across species, and included: nutrient concentrations, physical defenses, leaf toughness, and …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… kid, they were common in Lyme. His house was surrounded on two sides by forest, and Anderson liked to bike in the … littoral. By the middle of the 19th century, roughly three-fourths of southern New England had been deforested, … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… and antibiotics simultaneously, to get a sense of how two increasing stressors impact soils.” Monensin was … containing native prairie soil ready to be incubated at three different temperatures. Credit: Jane Lucas. The … and temperature interact to disrupt soil communities and nutrient cycling . Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Volume …
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Strategies for achieving equitable green infrastructure in US urban planning
… projects benefit all urban residents? This question guided two new projects: a nationwide analysis of green … from 6 US cities, the toolkit allows users to explore three true-to-life stories of green infrastructure … press release .) Discover related resources, including publications, essays, a white paper , a Story Map , …
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Antidepressant pollution alters crayfish behavior, with impacts to stream ecosystems
… the effects of antidepressant pollution on crayfish. Just two weeks of citalopram exposure caused changes in crayfish … the potential to disrupt stream ecosystem processes like nutrient cycling, oxygen levels, and algal growth. … through stream ecosystems.” Three months before the experiment, the team placed packets …
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Lyme disease season is here. These are tips on how to avoid it.
… That’s because these patches tend to have higher concentrations of disease-carrying mice, because of a lack … hangers-on. Lyme symptoms can show up any time between two days and three weeks after a bite. Fever, fatigue and malaise are …
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Troubling waters: Antiviral medications in wastewater may drive resistance in bat-borne viruses
… manufacturing facilities have been known to release high concentrations of antiviral compounds into local … that in some cases, bats could be consuming as much as three human doses of remdesivir per day. The dosage varies … passes from insects to bats, and how many insects each bat species consumes. The extent to which any of these vital …
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Dr. Evan Gora
… death. Plants play crucial roles in global biodiversity and nutrient cycling. However, plant mortality rates are … of plant death, and then uses “big data” such as plot networks and satellite sensors to scale these findings to … they are, giant trees are particularly susceptible to these three killers September 4, 2019 | Science ‘Not …
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To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform
… Maryland. Credit: Logan Brissette and Joanna Solins Three major recommendations emerged from the 20-city … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …
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