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A scientists' response to the conspracy theory that Lyme disease was a bioweapon engineered at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center: the Lyme-causing bacteria “has existed in essentially its current-day form for hundreds of thousands of years,” and “the tick also has existed in largely its present form for millions of years.”

Drug‑resistant microbes are now documented in hedgehogs, bats, a wide array of non-human primates, and migratory birds, far from areas with any direct antibiotic use.

Drawing from his bestselling book, Bringing Nature Home, Douglas Tallamy discusses how using native plants in the home landscape can help protect and preserve North American wildlife.

A new Cary-led paper proposes that many modern landscapes can be managed more holistically when they are understood as a mixture of urban, rural, and wild features.

Discussions on ecological research and decision-making including work on cyanobacteria blooms in nutrient-poor lakes and insights on managing wildfires, emphasizing the need for better decision support tools. 

There’s a lot that scientists don’t know about canopy soil, but a new project will start to demystify this suspended substrate. Led by Jane Lucas and Evan Gora of Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, along with Michelle Spicer of Lehigh University, the team is investigating the microbes that live in these soils, and what they can teach us about how climate change will impact the microorganisms that keep our world working. 
 

Christine Ray serves as a liaison between the Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative's (WFFRC) science teams and land managers in Colorado, helping to ensure the science of fire ecology and ecosystem resilience can support effective solutions for wildfire in Colorado.

This talk explores how multiple interacting drivers of change are transforming ecological processes across the Amazon and potentially pushing its forests beyond their capacity to recover and maintain fundamental structural and functional characteristics — raising the critical question of whether a tipping point can still be avoided. 

Internationally known conservation biologist Dr.Thomas E. Lovejoy explores the impact of climate change on the natural world.

Hectare for hectare, wetlands in the Brazilian Cerrado holds six times more carbon than the lowland Amazon, according to the first study to estimate carbon stocks in the biome.

Urban areas used to have edges you could clearly point out. A busy downtown gave way to quieter streets, then farms, then open land. That clean break is getting harder to find. Today, homes, roads, and businesses stretch outward in uneven patterns. What used to feel separate now overlaps.

Ticks are surviving winters in larger numbers and staying active for more of the year. Species are expanding into new areas and potentially picking up new pathogens

Ticks in the Hudson Valley are becoming more likely to carry more than one pathogen, increasing the chances that you could get multiple diseases from just a single bite.

New research suggests that the Brazilian cerrado is storing far more carbon than anyone realized — six times more, per hectare, than the Amazon’s biomass, with its dense tangle of trees. But like Brazil’s famous rainforest, the cerrado is in serious trouble, due to climate change and the encroachment of agribusiness.

While heat and drought have long been blamed for rainforest tree deaths, new research reveals that short, intense storms—amplified by climate change—may be toppling trees at alarming rates.

As part of the 2010 Young Environmental Scientists’ (YES) Conference, the Cary Institute hosted a talk by integrative biologist and National Geographic Society explorer Dr. Tyrone Hayes.