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  1. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … by black-legged ticks, those sesame-seed-size insects with eight legs and anesthetizing bites. Like so … 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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  2. Beech Bark Disease

    … Gardens for decades. What they didn’t know is that tiny insects hiding on that tree would spread to the native beech … tree species in the forest. Such shifts have important effects on soil development and nutrient cycling 2 . … changes in forest carbon and nitrogen cycling caused by an introduced pest/pathogen complex. Ecosystems 13:1188–1200. …

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

    … levels in surface water are toxic to certain types of fish, insects and amphibians, states the US Environmental … growing awareness of the harmful environmental and health effects of sodium chloride salts, their “sheer … than mandatory. In practice, each province and city has introduced its own requirements for “environmentally …

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  4. Can humans be part of healthy ecosystems?

    Can humans be part of healthy ecosystems? CrowdScience … CrowdScience listener Teri has witnessed the harmful effects of development on natural habitats near her home, … Department of Natural Resources Dr Frank Kanawha Lake - US Forest Service Research Ecologist and Tribal Liaison Will …

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

    … clear evidence linking bat-borne viruses to numerous human diseases, but Han thinks making generalisations about the … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders … and how important they are to help control pest insects and also that they should not only be viewed as …

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

    … with great sadness that we share that Gary M. Lovett , forest ecologist and Senior Scientist Emeritus at Cary … Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community, the Catskill Environmental Research and Monitoring (CERM) … into action drew on his expertise on the interplay between ecosystems and the atmospheric deposition of pollutants. …

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  7. Peter Groffman elected president of the Ecological Society of America

    … progress.” Groffman’s research focuses on climate effects on ecosystem biogeochemical processes related to … microbes to global biogeochemical cycles, from urban to forest ecosystems, from soil to water, from national environmental …

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  8. Cary Institute partners on $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife

    … Infectious Diseases , … (the virus that causes COVID-19) behaves in natural ecosystems, to anticipate strains with the potential to … monitoring at Cary Institute to simulate a Northeastern forest environment to understand how SARS-CoV-2 moves …

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  9. Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward

    … sites, the warblers find it difficult to forage enough insects to fuel their 2,000-or-so-mile journey home. As a … be having on wild bird populations. While the virus’s effects were readily apparent in urban areas, where birds … and social environments influence mosquito numbers and the diseases they carry across the urban landscape, paving the …

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  10. The more we lose biodiversity, the worse will be the spread of infectious diseases

    … biodiversity, the worse will be the spread of infectious diseases The next zoonotic emergence event is … of exposure to vector-borne diseases, such as the Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), a tick-borne haemorrhagic fever … with body size, he says. “We also found that dilution effects occurred for most frequency-transmitted pathogens …

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