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

    … his study plots were dying off due to pests like Beech Bark Disease, Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, and spongy moths. This … interactions—no ego involved. He wanted to see the best work done by groups that could tackle thorny issues, … about ecosystems, & ecology more generally, for many of us. What a loss. Elizabeth Borer Gary was always so …

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

    … enemy in the fight against COVID-19 Studying what drives spillovers is important. April 23, 2020 … “In fact, they (bats) have one of our planet’s best records for not spreading diseases. We still don’t … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders …

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  3. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … signs of brain inflammation. The adults didn’t know what was wrong with him. His elementary school worried that … the tick population,” she says. A single deer can “annually feed 500 adult ticks, which each will lay 2,000 … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  4. A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change

    … as deer ticks, carry a wide range of illnesses. They’re best known for carrying Lyme disease, a sickness that causes a rash, fatigue, fever, … of months may not sound like a lot, but they represent what looks like a significant rise in the disease that’s …

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  5. Cary Institute to host Climate Week NYC event on addressing the wildfire crisis

    … forest ecologist Winslow Hansen for a discussion about what’s causing wildfires to be worse than ever, and how … resilience and ensure that environmental stewards have the best available science from which to make decisions. The … Register now . Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together …

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  6. What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, a Cary-led team aims to find out

    What’s killing giant tropical trees? With $1.7M in awards, … in giant tree deaths are wind, lightning, drought, and disease — factors that are all changing along with the … results could help foresters focus on species that will be best adapted to future conditions. A …

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  7. How to stop the next pandemic

    … the midst of this pandemic, we are all rightly focused on what we can do to protect ourselves and each other, and on … 1 ]. You’re familiar with other zoonotic diseases, too. Lyme disease is zoonotic, and so is Ebola. SARS and MERS are … if we could prevent future epidemics altogether. One of the best ways to do that is to preserve, protect, and restore …

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  8. Destroyed habitat creates the perfect conditions for coronavirus to emerge

    … fragmenting forests raise the risk of humans contracting Lyme disease. “Altering the ecosystem affects the complex … also good evidence that those same species are the best hosts for existing diseases,” she wrote in an email … is not always so clear cut.” Changing Behavior So what, if anything, can we do about all of this? Jones …

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  9. Why you should brake for opossums

    … time you see a opossum playing dead on the road, try your best to avoid hitting it. Because it turns out that opossums are allies in the fight against Lyme disease. Possums, like many other small and medium sized …

  10. Squirrels could make monkeypox a forever problem

    … Chewy, a prairie dog, had by that point succumbed to the disease, which he’d almost certainly caught in an … will likely change soon. But in the decades since, the best evidence of the virus lingering in animals has been … colleagues worry most about those mammals when they ponder what animals in non-endemic regions may pose the most future …

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