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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… science, advancing understanding of how forests process pollution, cycle nutrients, and respond to pests and … early research transformed how scientists calculate forest nitrogen budgets. He was among the first to document that … monitoring, to prevent damage to our nation’s natural resources. Cary Senior Scientist Emeritus Charlie Canham …
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Ocean acidification
… certain oxidized gases, such as sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), dissolve in water, they make it … they cause acid rain in the regions downwind of the source. The rain that falls is a weak solution of sulfuric … acid in recent years as the Clean Air Act has reduced air pollution. Chemists describe the acidity of water using a …
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Troubling waters: Antiviral medications in wastewater may drive resistance in bat-borne viruses
… Pharmaceutical Pollution Bats carry … Antiviral medications are growing in use, and the human body doesn’t fully break them down. A person taking … at highest risk for emerging antiviral-resistant viruses. Source: Rosi et al. 2023/Environmental Science & Technology …
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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
… where a couple of famous events in the history of water pollution occurred, and where we have good descriptions of … that meet water-quality standards has been increasing. Source: Midwest Biodiversity Institute. How bad was it? … quality (concentrations of fecal coliform bacteria from human waste) around New York City improved following the …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… it spread with such tenacity? The short answer: heedless human meddling with Mother Earth. We pull at the strings of … are the long-term hosts of the Lyme pathogen, the ultimate source from which the little corkscrew bacteria sally forth … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Hydrogen fuels
… an explanation. It is easy to jump to the conclusion that human production of hydrogen as fuel may be responsible, but … sediments by microbes that consume hydrogen as an energy source for metabolism. It seems unlikely that we have … 10.1073/pnas.2103335118 Schultz, M.G. et al. 2003. Air pollution and climate-forcing impacts of a global hydrogen …
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… stores are found in soils. Due to climate warming and other human activities that affect soil microorganisms, this … microbial community composition and function, carbon and nitrogen cycling, and interactions among microbes. They … effect could turn an important carbon sink into a carbon source, exacerbating climate change effects. Senior …
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With global challenges in mind, keeping a decades-long success story at the forefront
… how a similar challenge was successfully addressed can be a source of encouragement. This success story starts in … of the Multi-state Atmospheric Power Production Pollution Study (MAP3S) Network in 1976, and later the … the acidity, that is, the emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides to the atmosphere through the burning of …
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Can we successfully predict the next pandemic?
… (CDC) estimates that more than 60% of known infectious human diseases originate in animals. Photo by d … organization called USAID PREDICT, a nonprofit dedicated to tracking potential sources of zoonotic illness and … which originated in birds. A zoonotic illness is even the source of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus which has spread …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… with collaborative activities by the animal health and human health sectors in these surveillance activities shall … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … We do have a scenario but that is not the bat itself (as a source). It’s a whole series of events that led to a …
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