Highlights: November 20

By K.E.D.C.Environment, Health, Microbiology

Which forests are in the crosshairs?

This report from the World Wildlife Federation provides an overview of those forests that are at most risk of deforestation in the next fifteen years, as well as strategies to protect them (also visualized here).

Amazon forest, courtesy of Neil Palmer/CIAT, CC BY 2.0
Amazon forest, courtesy of Neil Palmer/CIAT, CC BY 2.0

 

Hotter than hot: It’s well beyond time to take climate change seriously

See the dedicated Climate Change issue at National Geographic.

Courtesy of Dr. Roger Hewitt, NOAA NMFS SWFSC, CC BY 2.0
Courtesy of Dr. Roger Hewitt, NOAA NMFS SWFSC, CC BY 2.0

 

A stunningly beautiful, meter-long E. coli

See here.

 

Image credits:

By Neil Palmer/CIAT (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons, https://www.flickr.com/photos/51647007@N08/5277941100/

Photographer: Dr. Roger Hewitt, NOAA NMFS SWFSC

Credit: NOAA NMFS SWFSC Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) Program

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