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  1. With global challenges in mind, keeping a decades-long success story at the forefront

    … (MAP3S) Network in 1976, and later the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) network in 1978. In all, the … showed there has been a remarkable decline in polluting sulfur concentrations and acidity,” says Likens. “That … information on emissions, declines, the maps, and wet and dry deposition all in one place. We tied to put it all …

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  2. Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend

    … nitrogen budgets. He was among the first to document that dry atmospheric deposition - from particles in the air - delivered as much … memory of Gary Lovett Gary was a treasured near 30-year mentor and later collaborator and friend, advising not …

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  3. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … placing the number of new cases as high as 476,000 each year. “That is a huge number,” says Dr. Ben Beard, … be ignored these days: climate change. “We have a good record of warming at the Cary Institute through our weather … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  4. Ocean acidification

    … When certain oxidized gases, such as sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), dissolve in … cause global climate change, it will be hard to dismiss the record of acidification of the oceans caused by the … in the atmosphere. The pH has fallen at a rate of 0.06 per year during the past 15 years. You may ask: the pH above …

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  5. Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19

    … Studying what drives spillovers is important. April 23, 2020 Mongabay … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … Wroughton’s free-tailed bats. “It took us almost one year to convince the village elders to declare the area as a …

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

    … Photo by August Davidson-Onsgard December 20, 2023 … the National Academy of Science , finds that a long-term drying trend throughout the Caribbean is making it harder … to the North American Breeding Bird Survey . Once a year since 1966, volunteers go out and census the number and …

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  7. Dr. Evan Gora

    Dr. Evan Gora Forest Ecologist Expertise forest ecology, … March 30, 2021 | Smithsonian Ka Boom July 23, 2020 | Smithsonian Lightning strikes more than 100 million times per year in the tropics July 27, 2020 | NSF Lightning …

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

    … forests experience 35-67 million lightning strikes each year, and strikes appear to be becoming more frequent. … explains, “ Lightning is a major cause of tree death and forest disturbance , yet it has been understudied as an … months of the lightning strike, and up to four times within 23 months post-strike. For 65 of the lightning strikes, …

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

    … and in the future?” The team looked at global climate records for two 20-year study periods, 1950-1969 and 2000-2019, to identify … and mean vapor pressure deficit (a measure of how dry the air is). Global data were gridded at a 0.5° spatial …

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  10. Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise

    … already succumbed to COVID-19, one infected individual—4-year-old Nadia—made global headlines. A Malayan tiger … and Europe had officially reported SARS-CoV-2 infections in 23 nonhuman animal species, including not only big cats like … MD, a clinical scientist at the University of Toronto’s Sunnybrook Research Institute, said in an interview. In the …

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