A secret weapon in preventing the next pandemic: Fruit bats
More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic.
More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic.
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2023
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Cities need to plant more trees. But not just any trees.
Ecology
Dec 27, 2022
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In many countries, the number of fig trees have been declining. While there are numerous explanations, one key problem is fig-wilting disease. A recognized cause of this disease is a fungus, Ceratocystis ficicola, which is ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 16, 2022
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Wild tomato relatives Solanum habrochaites and S. galapagense are important germplasm donors in modern tomato breeding. Compared to the cultivated tomato, they display many desirable traits, particularly high tolerance to ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 13, 2022
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A mysterious invasive disease has hit a stand of southeast Michigan trees, adding to a long list of threats faced by state forests.
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2022
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The evening grosbeak, a noisy and charismatic songbird, once arrived at Oregon State University in springtime flocks so vast an OSU statistics professor estimated there were up to a quarter million of the birds on campus ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2022
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Canada unveiled Wednesday a national carbon emissions market to help it meet its climate goals by allowing cities, farmers and others to sell credits for CO2 reductions to heavier polluters.
Environment
Jun 8, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Poland has found that an outbreak of African swine fever seven years ago could influence forest dynamics in a given area for many years to come. In their paper ...
For the first time ever, scientists have been able to measure the speed of a bacterium that causes the incurable citrus greening disease. Citrus greening disease (also known as Huanglongbing) is the most devastating citrus ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2021
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It's an unlikely place for a nature hike: Tucked away on the Northwest Side of Chicago, the Montclare neighborhood is marked by quiet streets, neat bungalows and postage-stamp lawns.
Plants & Animals
Nov 29, 2021
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