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  1. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … Lyme disease in the public imagination—in determining the density of infected nymphs in their study areas, though deer … was experiencing eye problems, perhaps due to the lingering effects of Lyme. To help me understand how the town of … 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?

    … ice and snow that had been exposed to such agents should be transported and treated separately, the document stated. … drinking water can negatively affect people with high blood pressure, while high chloride levels in surface water are … growing awareness of the harmful environmental and health effects of sodium chloride salts, their “sheer …

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

    … into their canopies. Gora and colleagues found that liana density is positively associated with the number of trees … notes. “When lianas are in the canopy, they amplify the effects of lightning strikes, resulting in more severe … Island in Panama. Photo: Jeff Burchfield When liana density was high, lightning disturbance was more severe, …

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  4. Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist

    … We should expect that the direct and indirect effects of fire will be an increasingly prevalent part of … fires, even if you are only exposed to smoke. The health effects of wildfire smoke exposure range from minor eye and … American fire crisis is radical reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. But at best, this will take decades to …

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  5. Dr. David L. Strayer

    … whose current work focuses on measuring the long-term effects of zebra mussels on the Hudson River ecosystem, and … from the water. These animals can have large, pervasive effects on aquatic ecosystems.  Strayer is currently … of species and ecosystems. In addition to his scientific publications, Strayer has written several dozen essays for …

    ltumblety - 11/10/2023 - 15:40

  6. Victoria Kelly

    … been used to understand the dynamics of road salt and the effects of climate change on precipitation chemistry. … and monitoring of water at the landscape scale. Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, …

    ltumblety - 08/01/2023 - 09:43

  7. Exposure to past temperature variability may help forests cope with climate change

    … Research: Ecology, published by IOP Publishing, assessed effects of past and current climate variability on global … maximum temperatures, total precipitation, and mean vapor pressure deficit (a measure of how dry the air is). Global … forest responses to variability in precipitation and vapor pressure deficit. This may be due to physiological tradeoffs …

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  8. Helium balloons impose a toll on our air, land, and sea

    … contamination because the tiny particles are readily transported by air and water currents. The effects of microplastics on aquatic life are not well … is fortunate to be rich in helium; we produce 40% of the gas worldwide. But there is a global helium shortage, and …

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  9. Beech Bark Disease

    … girdle the tree, disrupting its internal nutrient transport system and causing it to deteriorate slowly. … girdle the tree, disrupting its internal nutrient transport system and causing it to deteriorate slowly. The … tree species in the forest. Such shifts have important effects on soil development and nutrient cycling 2 . …

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  10. A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change

    … a serious bout of the illness continue to experience the effects of the disease, such as loss of muscle mass and … rise as the climate continues to change due to greenhouse gas emissions. Warming temperatures are helping ticks shift …

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