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  1. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … say it. Black-legged ticks—and here I am referring to Ixodes scapularis, the species that lives among us here in the … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  2. Jonathan J. Cole: In Memory

    … we will learn what fish are made of’. The experiment’s success relied heavily on Jon’s knowledge of lake carbon … aquatic plants a minor contributor.” Among his many accomplishments, Jon was a member of both the … fell under his spell, to their great benefit.” Among those early career scientists that Jon mentored was …

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  3. To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform

    … Whose voices are heard in the planning process? These are among the questions we need to address,” explains lead … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …

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

    … with nonprofits, government, and industry, chief among them his Tree-SMART Trade campaign. A deeply … was a leader and collaborator in so many other communities, among them the Hubbard Brook Long Term Ecological Research … how scientists calculate forest nitrogen budgets. He was among the first to document that dry atmospheric deposition …

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  5. Urban greening success could be as simple as scattering seeds

    Urban greening success could be as simple as scattering seeds … Ambio .   Ify Ndwuku measures target species height (here, a Western sunflower) in an … in target plant success – in abundance and diversity – among our plots. This shows that planting method has …

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  6. Cary Institute receives $2 million gift to reimagine its headquarters

    … Zibby initiated a program of fostering relationships among Trustees, donors, and Cary scientists. Jim is a source … Millbrook area. Our gift is a celebration of the expanding success of Cary Institute and a thank you to the Millbrook …

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  7. The threat nobody is talking about? Covid spillback

    … says Fagre. “If this virus spills over into a species which is already hugely threatened by things like … One of the biggest concerns is that Sars-CoV-2 transmission among animals could encourage the virus to mutate further, … strong bond, which depends on the structure of ACE2, which varies from one species to the next. So we created this …

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  8. New study identifies bird species that could spread ticks and Lyme disease

    … to know which traits make certain animals good pathogen hosts. Here, we used machine learning to assess bird species … “These findings remind us that pathogen competence varies tremendously, even among animals of the same family. Machine learning …

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  9. Herd immunity

    … global time-out won’t work, and for a number of reasons. Among these is the fact that we’re mammals. We need to eat … But why? To survive, the virus has to keep infecting new hosts.  But finding a susceptible host becomes increasingly … vaccine will take time to develop. One group has had some success so far . They have a candidate vaccine that they …

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

    … on bats makes a lot of practical sense because bats are hosts of numerous medically significant viruses (Ebola virus, rabies virus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus, among others) notes Barbara Han , disease ecologist at … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders …

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