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Trout can become ‘addicted’ to meth. Here's why that’s so scary. Illegal drugs could be having a little-known—and disastrous—impact on freshwater wildlife, new laboratory experiments show. ByCarrie Arnold Email Traces of methamphetamine and other illegal drugs that enter waterways could cause addiction in fish, a novel study finds. Recent laboratory experiments found that brown trout, a common fish in Eastern European rivers, exposed to methamphetamine at concentrations like those seen just downstream of wastewater treatment plants showed signs of addiction—such as being less acti...

8:29 With the COVID pandemic coming under control, lawmakers in the Hudson Valley and other Lyme disease hotspots hope attention, and money, return to tick-borne disease education and research. It seems ticks were out in greater force in the spring than in recent history. “The early data from our area in the Hudson Valley suggests that, at least for black-legged ticks, this is a greater than normal year,” says Ostfeld. “An average year is dangerous, and this is even more dangerous in 2021.” Especially, says Dr. Rick Ostfeld, the nymph-stage tick, which was active in June and poses the...

Lyme disease-carrying ticks usually found in woodlands and fields are spreading along California's beaches, carried by an unknown host.

Lyme disease-carrying ticks usually found in woodlands and fields are spreading along California's beaches, carried by an unknown host.

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