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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges The Clean … and provided federal dollars to upgrade sewage treatment plants. The act greatly improved sewage treatment in the … species and other complicated problems. Third, it may seem prudent to delay acting on big problems until we …
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Troubling waters: Antiviral medications in wastewater may drive resistance in bat-borne viruses
Troubling waters: Antiviral medications in wastewater may drive resistance in bat-borne viruses … Antiviral medications are our first line of defense and can help our bodies fight off these infections, but a paper … 75% of each dose in its active form, and sewage treatment plants will only capture about 5% of those residuals, …
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Can humans be part of healthy ecosystems?
Can humans be part of healthy ecosystems? … emphasise a symbiotic relationship with nature, seeing plants and animals as their relations. Over the past couple … traditional burning practices. Tribal members show us how they’re working to try to restore ecological balance. As …
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Is the coronavirus pandemic related to meat production?
… and climate change. These large, systemic issues may seem intractable when we look at them through the lens … home and butcher them. Berson : There’s a lot of talk about how the how pangolins might have been the … be related to climate change. It was originally living in plants, but adapting to climate change made it able to deal …
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Football-sized invasive mussels nearly escaped detection. What else are we missing?
… found in 2010, but not removed until 2019. A nine-year lag may count as a rapid response in the bureaucratic world, but not in the biological world, where nine years can easily allow a non-native species to reproduce and … don’t have adequate inspections to verify the hygiene of plants and animals imported into the US. So, yes, we …
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In the tropics, nitrogen-fixing trees take a hit from herbivores
… nitrogen gas into a form of nitrogen that is available to plants. When fixers shed their leaves, they enrich soils … are also rare. Nitrogen-fixing trees can fertilize the soil with the help of partner bacteria. It … rainforests. This study suggests that herbivory by animals may be the answer. Credit: Sarah Batterman Sarah …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… legacy. Anyone who cares about forests needs to do anything they can to ensure that effort lives on.” His sudden death … Natural Resource Inventory at the time of his death. Our hearts go out to Gary’s family, including his wife, Janet …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… disease, and the deadly Powassan virus disease, which can cause encephalitis and has a case fatality rate of … now live in a world where a simple walk in the woods may lay us low or even upend our lives. It’s a world in … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Beech Bark Disease
… system and causing it to deteriorate slowly. The decline can take years to decades, but is usually fatal. The disease … An early larval stage of the insect can crawl about, and may be dispersed by hitching a ride on birds or other … insects can also be spread by people moving infested live plants or bark-clad beech logs such as firewood. Since …
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… some questions about what we are experiencing, what we can expect in the future, and why we need to advance … be an increasingly prevalent part of our lives. Can you talk a little more about the role of climate change in … at the Yale School of Forestry, and as East Coasters, they were unaccustomed to fires of the western US. In the …
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