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 E-Mail IMAGE: Monkey being examined in Manaus area. Scientists will monitor areas in which these diseases are endemic to investigate the factors that trigger outbreaks view more  Credit: CREATE-NEO By Maria Fernanda Ziegler | Agência FAPESP – Yellow fever was the first human disease to have a licensed vaccine and has long been considered important to an understanding of how epidemics happen and should be combated. It was introduced to the Americas in the seventeenth century, and high death rates have resulted from successive outbreaks since then. Epidemics of yellow fever were...

 E-Mail Credit: Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program Urban areas are on the rise and changing rapidly in form and function, with spillover effects on virtually all areas of the Earth. The UN estimates that by 2050, 68% of the world's population will reside in urban areas. In the inaugural issue of npj Urban Sustainability, a new Nature Partner Journal out today, a team of leading urban ecologists outlines a practical checklist to guide interventions, strategies, and research that better position urban systems to meet urgent sustainability goals. Co-author Steward Pickett of Cary Institute of...

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Invasive Insects and Diseases Are Killing Our Forests America wasn’t ready for the pandemic. And it isn’t ready for the next contagion to strike our woodlands. By Gabriel Popkin Mr. Popkin is an independent journalist who writes about science and the environment. He has written extensively about threats to trees and forests. Feb. 6, 2021 Larch trees in England infected with sudden oak death, a deadly airborne disease that was first detected in the United States, were felled last month in an effort to halt the disease’s fast-moving spread.Credit...Matt Cardy/Getty Images It’s not just ...

By the handful, locals met the latest winter storm with rock salt, reaching into five-pound bags over and over to scatter ice-melting crystals onto recently shoveled driveways and sidewalks. On a larger scale, plow trucks equipped with spreaders did much the same on local roads. The wintertime routine in Lancaster County, like in most of the country where snow and ice are common this time of year, involves applying salt and chemical de-icing solutions to roadways, often in mix with anti-skid materials like sand. But it’s a road-safety routine that comes with a cost, specifically the poll...