Can a fire-ravaged forest of Joshua trees be restored?
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VIDEO: In August 2020, the Dome Fire burned more than 40,000 acres of the iconic species’ range in the Mojave Desert, leaving a graveyard of blackened trees. A massive replanting effort now underway hopes to return life to the fragile ecosystem by boosting numbers of the climate-threatened plant ..read more
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Covid-19: Origins of an outbreak
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VIDEO: Where do new diseases come from? As people increasingly push into remote areas, the risk of encountering new pathogens increases, says wildlife epidemiologist Jonna Mazet ..read more
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Preparing for future pandemics: Learning from Covid-19
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’s interviews with experts during the pandemic revealed many missed opportunities and blunders in the US response to Covid-19, which was marked by excess American deaths and disability. The experience does offer lessons on how to better prepare for what scientists call the inevitable emergence of the next global health emergency ..read more
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Long Covid: A parallel pandemic
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VIDEO: Tens of millions of people are living with long Covid. Yale immunologist Akiko Iwasaki explains the current state of play in the search for causes of, and treatments for, this potentially debilitating illness ..read more
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The fight against an invasive fish in California’s Clear Lake
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VIDEO: Can removing carp help the lake’s native fish and keep toxic algal blooms in check?   ..read more
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SARS-CoV-2: Evolution of a virus
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VIDEO: Scientists expected the novel coronavirus would mutate and change. But its runaway spread means new, more dangerous variants are more likely to emerge. Harvard computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti explains ..read more
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Covid’s main lesson? For this journalist, it’s unpredictability
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science reporter Apoorva Mandavilli chronicles the rise of the delta variant, the latest of many twists in the pandemic that she’s covered since it began. Delta has left parents in an especially tough spot, with schools opening but young children still vulnerable ..read more
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Why Covid-19 testing went so wrong in the US, and what to do now
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VIDEO: Delays, errors and a fragmented response initially kept public health officials in the dark about the spread of SARS-CoV-2. More tests and easy access could still play a critical role in slowing the virus ..read more
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