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  1. Agriculture without weeds and bugs

    … is responsible for about 1/3 of our greenhouse gas emissions, about 80 percent of the emissions of reactive nitrogen, and huge amounts of pesticides in the environment. …

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  2. Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities

    Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil … microbial community composition and function, carbon and nitrogen cycling, and interactions among microbes.  They … effects, things like soil carbon storage capacity and crop production could be jeopardized. In addition to broader …

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  3. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … to human health. They might also go on to infect a new crop of mice with the Lyme pathogen, thus ensuring its … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the … similar diseases, but they could become a huge problem for livestock and wildlife. And the other …

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  4. Food Energy

    … and forestry account for about 1/3 of greenhouse gas emissions. November 19, 2019 … in about 1/3 of that. To a very real extent, intensive farming is a way of converting fossil calories, largely from … yield was negative—we are putting more energy into the crop than we get back. But, of course, you can’t eat …

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  5. Dr. Jane M. Lucas

    … Lucas’ current research is investigating how livestock practices shape antibiotic resistance. Antibiotics given to livestock inject biologically active compounds into the … antibiotics affect soil microbes, soil carbon storage, nitrogen cycling, and the rise of antibiotic resistance. …

    ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:12

  6. Dr. Sarah Batterman

    … biodiversity, land use change, climate change, symbiotic nitrogen fixation 845 677-7600 x148 One of the … how terrestrial ecosystems will offset human carbon emissions and slow climate change. Sarah Batterman's … how the evolution of plant symbioses with fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria changed the climate over earth's …

    ltumblety - 01/03/2024 - 10:11

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

    … early research transformed how scientists calculate forest nitrogen budgets. He was among the first to document that … - from particles in the air - delivered as much or more nitrogen to forests than rainfall. Gary also advanced … how trees, soils, and microbes interact to control nitrogen, and how this regulates forest growth, carbon …

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  8. Beech Bark Disease

    … trees, especially the largest ones, reduces the beech nut crop and forces bears and other animals to find other foods. … understood, but it may be affected by the level of nitrogen in the tree 1 . Like many plant-eating insects, … scale’s population growth is limited by the amount of nitrogen it can obtain from its food. In eastern North …

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  9. Machine learning IDs mammal species with the potential to spread SARS-CoV-2

    … close proximity to people – including domestic animals, livestock, and animals that are traded and hunted. … among mammal groups. Water buffalo, bred for dairy and farming, had the highest risk among livestock. The model also predicted high zoonotic potential …

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  10. Organic foods: Who couldn't like them?

    … act as predators on species harmful to the desired crop, providing a natural benefit to the farmer. The higher … systems may use pumped irrigation water, but the nitrogen in the farmyard manure in organic agriculture is … also reports that organic cropping does not reduce the emissions of nitrous oxide (N­ 2 O) and methane (CH 4 ) …

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