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

    … tick, a minuscule arachnid about the size of a sesame seed when fully grown. Blacklegged ticks, commonly known … tick bite. Two deaths in the span of a couple of months may not sound like a lot, but they represent what looks like a … reach throughout the U.S., experts told Grist, could be greater than what’s reported by the CDC. Many cases of …

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  2. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … vector—specifically, by black-legged ticks, those sesame-seed-size insects with eight legs and anesthetizing bites. … and his team have found that white-footed mice play a much greater role than do deer—long linked with Lyme disease in … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  3. Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities

    … .  Lead author Jane Lucas measures CO2 production from prairie soil samples in Moscow, Idaho. … farms. Monensin is inexpensive, easy to administer, does not require a veterinary feed directive, and is not used in …

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  4. Diapers: to change or not to change

    Diapers: to change or not to change Some disposable diapers are … both petroleum-based plastics, which release fossil CO2 when they are burned and offer no net sequestration of … diaper is estimated to release 89 grams of CO2 from the production of raw materials; glueless models can reduce that …

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  5. How it all started

    … temperatures from the ongoing volcanic activity. (Life is not known to occur above about 121 C or 250 F). … adding up the amount of hydrogen available, the total production of organic matter could amount to 2 x 1012 g of … in the oceans, that today is more than 10,000 times greater—5 x 1016 g C/yr. The subsurface microbes are …

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  6. Food Energy

    … produce a kilogram of meat—the equivalent of about 27 kg CO2 per kilogram of food. For beef, that includes methane … pesticides and transportation—much of which stem from the production of corn to feed the animals. The least … of the vegetable displays in our local grocery. Now I am not about to feast on onions at every meal, but there is no …

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

    Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19 … have over 2200 species) is expected to be proportionally greater than viruses found in, for example, primates or … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders …

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  8. Woody biomass fuels

    … used fossil fuels with such enthusiasm that the uptake of CO2 by trees and the oceans has not been able to keep up with emissions. Photo: Jeremy … quick to point out that even in the Southeast, there is a greater area of forests than several decades ago. Recent …

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  9. Herd immunity

    … could sit down, at least six feet from each other, and not move for 14 days. At the end of those 14 days, the virus … And even if it is safe and effective in people, the global production, distribution, and administration of any vaccine … to getting there. In contrast, the more we transmit, the greater the number in our herd that need to be immune and …

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  10. The woody biomass hoax

    … in the southeastern United States. Most of Enviva’s production of wood pellets is sent to Europe, where the … by carbon uptake from the atmosphere. The same is not true when trees are harvested and used to replace coal. … Rooney-Varga. 2018. Does replacing coal with wood lower CO2 emissions? Dynamic lifecycle analysis of wood bioenergy. …

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