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Will This Be the Summer of Zika?
By Joshua Lang
With no vaccine available, the only way to prevent an outbreak is to fight the virus’s main carrier: the mosquito.
Conservation-minded researchers are trying to “assist” evolution in order to produce hardier coral and tougher trees.
A team of scientists hikes the inhospitable mountain range to investigate how quickly its ice is melting.
Neurochemistry was plainly “in,” and so—dangerously, seductively, especially in California, where I was studying—were the drugs themselves.
There have been five great die-offs in history. This time, the cataclysm is us.
If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?
A team of glaciologists climbs Chhota Shigri, a glacier in northern India, to measure how rapidly it’s melting.