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Dr. Evan Gora
… consequences of plant death. Plants play crucial roles in global biodiversity and nutrient cycling. However, plant mortality … Lightning strikes more than 100 million times per year in the tropics July 27, 2020 | NSF Lightning …
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The Future of Biodiversity
The Future of Biodiversity Both the looming crisis and what we … in perspective what we are learning from research. Much of global change science has focused on benchmarks that are … model comparisons focus on a small number of emissions scenarios for specific dates in the future, e.g., the year …
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Destroyed habitat creates the perfect conditions for coronavirus to emerge
… why deadly diseases new to humans were emerging from biodiversity “hot spots” like tropical rainforests and … diseases an “increasing and very significant threat to global health, security and economies.” Amplification … mitigation plans to take into account the worst possible scenarios,” he says. “The only certain thing is that the …
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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 residing in New York’s … the scientists predicted that animals would congregate in biodiversity hotspots, particularly at higher elevations. …
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Monarchs
… that butterflies have declined at a rate of about 1.6% per year during the past 40 years, associated with warming in … Biodiversity Those of … Nevertheless, I’ve whined for years about the loss of global biodiversity, so a couple of years ago my wife and I …
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Overpopulation
… rather than population size has led to our current global environmental impact. True, resource consumption is … for humans at the expense of the rest of the Earth’s biodiversity. Somehow many of us find it easy to overlook … the human population on the planet is growing at 1% each year—doubling every 67 years. Only with a population …
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In hot water with COVID and climate
… behavior and on our economy that one could not dream of a year ago. The President now claims that if only 200,000 … COVID-19 and climate change, scientists don’t make up the scenarios. In case of COVID-19, a long history of … others. 2020. The 2019/2020 summer of Antarctic heatwaves. Global Change Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15083 …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … it is a major issue over the years. 20,000 of an estimated global annual 55,000 rabies deaths occur in India because … 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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Human impact on the environment may make pandemics more likely, experts warn
… clear, explains Prof. Kate Jones, professor of ecology and biodiversity at University College London, is the virus had … the threat going forward. First, he suggests launching a global effort to identify viruses in wildlife that could … in a 'Global Virome Project' costing $120 million per year over 10 years," he said. He has already created a 501c3 …
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Team Cary: Chelsey Nieman
… was her true passion. Chelsey earned a master’s in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps Institution of … formal training to do something. After college, I took a year off from school to sort out the next steps in my … to expand this work to examine fishery complexities at a global scale. What is your favorite local restaurant? …
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