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In April 2014, just after world health officials identified a series of suspicious deaths in Guinea as an outbreak of Ebola, 10 ecologists, 4 veterinarians, and an anthropologist traveled to a Guinean village named Meliandou. Theirs was a detective mission to determine how this outbreak began. How had "patient zero," a 2-year-old boy named Emile, contracted the Ebola virus?

Many people don't give a lot of thought to some of the forest animals that may be crossing a road or trying to scurry out of the way as a car comes speeding around a corner. Well, there may be a lot more thought given to opossums, now that they have been connected to being the saviors of human beings against Lyme disease.

Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that the burning of biomass, such as trees, for energy in many cases will be considered “carbon neutral” by the agency.

Insects that live near streams are being poisoned by a cocktail drugs and medicines including antibiotics and antidepressants, reveals new research.

The hemlock woolly adelgid, native to East Asia, is slowly killing trees from Maine to Georgia. It's among the latest in a line of invasive pests slipping into the US.

It's not just pollution that can harm oxygen levels in rivers. Another culprit: hippo poop. A study found hippos pooping in the Mara River in Africa are killing off the fish.

A new study of 20 years of precipitation, pollution and water quality data has traced degradation of Baltimore's Gwynns Falls to frequent sewage leaks, and some environmental improvements to projects to clean up or reduce stormwater runoff.

REU student Olivia Vought talks about her journey to Cary & summer plans to survey streambed moss.

Some 14,000 vacant lots pockmark the city of Baltimore, where decades of population decline have left some blocks nearly abandoned. And there may soon be many more

We need to work with people—in communities, various governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations—to generate knowledge about the city that is useful to those who manage and live in it. This is ecology for the city.

REU student Alberto Salazar gives us a taste of his experience working with Cary scientists Dr. Chris Solomon and Alex Ross on two fisheries projects based in northern Wisconsin.

This summer, I am investigating competitive dynamics among scavenger guilds at Cary Institute. Carrion (dead animal flesh) is an essential yet limited food source for microbes, invertebrates, and vertebrates.

Lisa Borre provides research support for Dr. Kathleen C. Weathers, co-chair of the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON), and project coordination for Lake Observer, a mobile application for recording lake and water observations across the globe. She wrote for National Geographic's Water Currents blog (2012-2016) and speaks to local, regional and international groups about global lake topics.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the global authority for determining species' vulnerability in the face of threats such as habitat loss and climate change. How widely a species can be found – its geographic range – is a key indicator used by the IUCN to assign an appropriate conservation status.

When you hear of infrastructure, it's mostly about roads, bridges, buildings - that sort of thing. But there is another kind of infrastructure, and it's alive.

The effects of rock salt on streams are most dramatic in streams in urban areas. These would be streams in proximity to roads The roads would receive a lot of rock salt and eventually as that dissolves, it moves on into the streams.

It's very important to reduce the amount of salt as much as we can when we use it on our roads in the wintertime, and there are a number of steps road service agencies can take to use less salt but still be able to keep roads free of ice and snow, and thus safe for drivers.