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  1. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … his bloodstream. Anderson—who asked that his real name not be used in this article to protect his privacy—was one … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the … there too, infecting people each year and with increasing frequency, though far less frequently than Lyme. What to do? …

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

    … collecting fecal samples for viral RNA extraction. Radio frequency identification tags will help the researchers … how these factors and others interact to influence virus abundance and spillover risk . “Machine learning is a … notes, “and it reveals patterns that you might otherwise not be able to see.”  Adds Jayna Raghwani from Royal …

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

    … advance predictive fire science. The Northeastern US is not accustomed to dealing with hazardous smoke drift from … are burning have experienced fire before, and are home to tree species that are fire adapted. What is changing is the … causing fuels to dry out, increasing flammability and the frequency of fires. Anything that can burn is fuel for a …

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  4. Once, America had its own parrot

    … Masferrer i Rierola sometime in the early 1900s. He did not record where he killed it. Researchers had previously … another genome to serve as a guide. They chose a living relative, the sun parakeet of South America. The sun … of these exchanges,” she said. As the birds moved to temperate forests, they adapted. Dr. Lalueza-Fox found over …

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

    … temperature variability is expected to increase moderately relative to past conditions, but average temperature is … to temperature variability today. However, the same was not true for forest responses to variability in … These include boreal forests in eastern North America, temperate forests of the south-central and southeast United …

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  6. Q&A with Winslow Hansen: Wildfire in the western US

    Climate change is amplifying these factors. The abundance of fuel on the landscape is also critical. More … ‘Wildfire regime’ describes the pattern of fire frequency, size, and severity that is typical in a landscape … species rely on fire during key life stages. For example, tree species like lodgepole pine produce cones sealed by …

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  7. Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space

    … to ‘look’ through leaves to detect soil moisture in temperate forests. The study , coauthored by Cary … SMAP satellite is taking measurements at a low microwave frequency. Cary Environmental … that we’re able to travel in summer-autumn 2021. If not, our ground sensors will still have collected a trove of …

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  8. West Nile virus infection risk is higher in less affluent neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD

    … neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD Study finds abundance of infected mosquitos varies with neighborhood … document how West Nile virus infection in mosquitoes varies relative to neighborhood socioeconomics. Knowing where … neighborhoods sampled in 2015 and 2017. West Nile virus was not detected in any neighborhood in 2016. A possible …

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  9. Pandemics: Humans are the culprits

    … had dimmed, the temperature had dropped, trees were not flowering, crops barely grew, and millions of people … clearing of forests to expand farming – can increase the frequency of contact between humans and wildlife and expose … – the rodents, and sometimes, bats – often increase in abundance as their predators and competitors are driven …

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  10. Racist housing practices from the 1930s linked to hotter neighborhoods today

    … into a parking lot from a park. You would feel that relatively quickly," says Vivek Shandas, a professor of … disaster, and heat waves are growing in intensity and frequency as climate change progresses. In Baltimore, NPR … at the nonprofit American Forests. "Our cities, they're not like jungles where they developed just by natural …

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