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Five golden rings … and an environmental dilemma
December 18, 2018 | Faculty, Research, Sustainability, Top Stories
Gold jewelry on your holiday shopping list? Before you buy that special someone a statement piece this season, scientists studying climate change and the fate of the world’s vital rainforests ask you to consider some hidden consequences.
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Climate change: Wake Forest University experts
December 12, 2018 | Faculty, Research, Top Stories
As diplomats from nearly 200 countries convene in Katowice, Poland, to negotiate plans for curbing global climate change, these scientists and policy experts can provide insight on the COP24 U.N. Climate Change Conference, the effects of global warming and the risks to the U.S. outlined in the recent Fourth National Climate Assessment, and proposed changes to the Clean Water Act.
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$450K NSF grant teaches high school students about antibiotic resistance
November 26, 2018 | Community, Faculty, Research, Top Stories
According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food insecurity and development. Now a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will support Wake Forest University researchers teaching ninth-graders at Mount Tabor High School how bacteria adapt to their environments.
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Fleeing warming temperatures, tropical trees in the Andes move upslope – toward extinction
November 14, 2018 | Faculty, Research, Top Stories
Tropical and subtropical forests across South America’s Andes Mountains are responding to warming temperatures by “migrating” to higher elevations, but probably not quickly enough to avoid loss of biodiversity, functional collapse or even extinction, according to a new study published November 14 in the journal Nature.
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Rainforest destruction from gold mining hits all-time high in Peru
November 8, 2018 | Faculty, Research, Sustainability, Top Stories
Small-scale gold mining has destroyed more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in the past five years, according to a new analysis by scientists at Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA).
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WFU students present Smithsonian ‘Outbreak’ exhibit just in time for flu season
November 2, 2018 | Faculty, Research, Student, Top Stories
On Nov. 13, first-year students at Wake Forest University will unveil a localized version of a Smithsonian exhibit about infectious diseases, aiming to show how Triad-area residents can help mitigate viral epidemics such as the flu and Zika.
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How the world’s fastest muscle created four unique bird species
October 30, 2018 | Faculty, Research, Top Stories
When the male bearded manakin snaps its wings at lightning speed, it’s more than part of an elaborate, acrobatic mating ritual. The tiny muscle doing the heavy lifting is also the reason this exotic bird has evolved into four distinct species, according to new research published in the journal eLIFE by Wake Forest University biologist Matthew Fuxjager.
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Flu season: Wake Forest experts available
October 25, 2018 | Faculty, Research, Top Stories
A century ago, public health officials and scientists struggled to find a way to contain a flu pandemic that eventually infected about one-third of the world’s population and killed an estimated 50 million people.
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African fires wipe out endangered rhino’s favorite foods
October 23, 2018 | Faculty, Research, Top Stories
Fires in the African savannah – planned by national park staff to regenerate the preferred grasses of grazers such as wildebeests and zebras – are killing the few foods that endangered black rhinos love to eat.
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Expert: Short-term health care plans give consumers choice
October 22, 2018 | Faculty, Research, Top Stories
With early-voting underway, recent polls show healthcare has become a top issue in the November midterm elections. One politically charged issue on the table is the availability of short-term health care plans that offer limited benefits at a low cost.
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