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  1. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … nearly 150 different Borrelia burgdorferi genomes, the bacteria are “ancient.” They have been evolving in North … drop vast amounts of acorns to increase their chances of reproduction, rodent populations will devour these … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  2. Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities

    … Lead author Jane Lucas measures CO2 production from prairie soil samples in Moscow, Idaho. … They found that with rising heat and antibiotic additions, bacteria collapsed, allowing fungi to dominate and … effects, things like soil carbon storage capacity and crop production could be jeopardized. In addition to broader …

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  3. Is the coronavirus pandemic related to meat production?

    Is the coronavirus pandemic related to meat production? "...the big task at hand is to … some of that disinformation centers on connections to food production—especially meat. While this pandemic does … antibiotics are cheap. To be honest, antibiotic resistant bacteria are globally perhaps the most important source of …

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  4. How it all started

    … x 1012 g. A lot of the hydrogen is held in rocks of the marine crust, but about 30% may escape and fuel microbial … adding up the amount of hydrogen available, the total production of organic matter could amount to 2 x 1012 g of …

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  5. Agriculture without weeds and bugs

    … no means is modern agriculture a “green” endeavor. Food production is responsible for about 1/3 of our greenhouse … applied to keep the fields weed-free. The diversity of soil bacteria and fungi is sacrificed and replaced with … to bees and other insects that are essential for crop production. There is increasing evidence that exposure to …

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  6. Can humans be part of healthy ecosystems?

    … Steel Producer: Cathy Edwards Editor: Richard Collings Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris Studio Manager: …

  7. Community Ecology of Lyme Disease (LTREB)

    … studying the complex interactions between variable acorn production, rodent populations, and ticks that carry Lyme … ). Ticks are born free of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria; they acquire it when they feed on infected … and protect local populations. Publications

  8. Zebra Mussels and the Hudson River

    … the freshwater tidal Hudson, constituting more than half of heterotrophic biomass, and filtering a volume of water equal …

  9. Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?

    … government admitted that widespread use of road salts for snow clearance is a cause of the damage. Road salts – … (US$4.2 million). Salt concentrations in residual roadside snow and surrounding soil were found to be 392 times higher … snowmelt agents with clear environmental advantages and low production costs are developed, chloride salts will continue …

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  10. Environmental justice

    … measuring the area of lands or wetlands, and increasingly marine habitats, that are under preservation.  We can even …

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