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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… point of water. Pure water becomes ice at 0C, but when combined with salt, this threshold can drop to around -10C. … growing awareness of the harmful environmental and health effects of sodium chloride salts, their “sheer … groundwater and human health requires coordination across multiple sectors, Kelly noted. It also needs a shift in …
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Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents
… here potentially have very wide applicability across many pathogens.” Viruses are most likely to jump from … help the researchers track the health and viral loads of individual rodents, and to estimate their movement, range, … Adds Jayna Raghwani from Royal Veterinary College: “Combined with mathematical modeling, the metaviromics data …
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… simulations to model forest response – scaling from individual trees up to entire biomes. Together, these … of the SORTIE-ND forest model, forecasting climate change effects on forests of the eastern US, modeling light … and government-sponsored efforts to control forest pathogens in both the US and Canada. She has run code on …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… so many other zoonotic diseases, Lyme and other tick-borne pathogens have emerged from ecosystems that have been … was experiencing eye problems, perhaps due to the lingering effects of Lyme. To help me understand how the town of … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities Combined stressors could impair soils’ ability to cycle … of Ecosystem Studies, investigated the interactive effects of rising temperatures and a common livestock … These findings highlight the importance of testing multiple stressors simultaneously to more fully understand …
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The Search for Animals That Could Carry the Next Deadly Virus
… found there are far more mammals that can be infected with multiple coronaviruses than previously known. A number of … habitats, diets, metabolism and biology, which they then combined with sequence and molecular data to give insights … were deer mice and white-footed mice, which often harbor pathogens and thrive living among humans. It turns out that …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. “These pathogens cause zoonoses with high case fatality rates in … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … and log cabins. Millions of humans in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific and Indian Ocean Islands still eat bats. Thousands …
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New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison
… bison became extinct in the wild, with only about 60 individuals remaining in captivity. Scientists have long … Pilowsky and colleagues built a detailed simulation that combined paleoclimate data, vegetation and habitat … years ago due to rapid warming of the climate and its effects on bison habitat. After that, the activities of a …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… be having on wild bird populations. While the virus’s effects were readily apparent in urban areas, where birds … to account for uncertainty and make inferences at multiple scales. The model identified seven bird … same advisor as LaDeau, Peter Marra — was studying the effects of drought on the American redstart, and realized …
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… We should expect that the direct and indirect effects of fire will be an increasingly prevalent part of … fires, even if you are only exposed to smoke. The health effects of wildfire smoke exposure range from minor eye and … means that trees are growing closer together. When combined with climate change, overly dense fuels can cause …
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