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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… Colorado tick fever, Borrelia miyamotoi disease, and the deadly Powassan virus disease, which can cause encephalitis … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the … climate. With it has come the alpha gal syndrome, which causes some people to become allergic to red meat. …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… readily apparent in urban areas, where birds were found dead along streets, there was less data on what was … discovered in different counties, did birds experience population declines? And if so, which ones?” … American crows were hit particularly hard, with abundance dropping by up to 45% between 1998 and 2005. Blue jays, …
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Human impact on the environment may make pandemics more likely, experts warn
… likely than ever. Where did SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, come from? The simple answer is … lead to viruses spilling over from wildlife into the human population and work with these communities to reduce their risk, test for evidence of viruses and stop outbreaks dead in their tracks in the earliest stages. Lastly, he …
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The threat nobody is talking about? Covid spillback
… by the opposite problem: stopping humans from passing a deadly virus on to animals. Fagre and her colleagues are … and mice – to catch Covid-19 from a human. The virus that causes Covid-19, Sars-CoV-2 is so common that scientists are … it could usher in a new phase of the pandemic with deadly consequences for humans and animals. The threat is very …
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New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison
… in captivity. Scientists have long debated the exact causes of the grazers’ near extinction, and how much … disentangle the threats that forced the European bison’s population decline. Rapid environmental change and hunting … also be adapted to reconstruct the causes of population declines and range collapses of other large herbivores, …
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Dr. Evan Gora
… Evan Gora is a forest ecologist investigating the causes and consequences of plant death. Plants play crucial roles in …
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Ecology and artificial intelligence: stronger together
… comparing two variables at a time — for example, how does population density affect the number of cases of an … are notoriously fragile , with potentially devastating consequences, such as misdiagnosing cancer or causing a car …
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What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out
… co-leaders of the Gigante project, stand on the trunk of a dead giant. Photo credit: Fagner Assunção The … while crown dieback may signal water stress. The dominant causes of death may turn out to be different at different … The work will expand our limited understanding of the causes of large tree mortality, whether by drought, …
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To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform
… evaluation of projects, and less than 10% identified the causes of uneven risk distributions and vulnerability. If … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …
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Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise
… In April 2020, when hundreds of thousands of people worldwide had already succumbed to COVID-19, one infected … to detect future zoonotic diseases before one of them causes the next pandemic, a possibility scientists say is … were predicted to overlap with areas of greater human population density, especially in Africa and Asia. This …
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