Topic: climate change effects
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Expanding mosquito ranges call for better disease monitoring
As climate change creates warmer, wetter conditions, mosquitoes like the Asian tiger mosquito are expanding their geographic ranges into historically cooler regions such as New England, bringing diseases like dengue and Zika virus with them. A mosquito monitoring program in Connecticut has identi...
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Why Extreme Heat Makes Animals Act Dumb
Extreme heat impairs animal cognition, causing species like southern pied babblers to struggle with learning tasks, and increasing aggression in others like dogs and chamois. These cognitive lapses threaten survival by hindering animals' ability to find food and evade predators, especially as cli...
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How Corals Survived Past Climate Change in the Deep
The 2023 marine heat wave caused functional extinction of two key reef-building coral species in the Florida Reef, drastically reducing populations to levels where natural recovery is highly improbable. Corals face accelerated climate change that outpaces their historical recovery patterns, with ...
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