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Antibiotic Resistance Emergency
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Antibiotic resistance and public health: it’s an emergency
Published by Jack Torresdal on September 15, 2025

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Climate and the Arctic
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The NAU Review • Date: Feb 6, 2025. (Context for the Science special collection on the Arctic; quotes Regents’ Prof. Ted Schuur.)

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A CIRCUIT SHOWS HOW CLIMATE WARMING MAY ALTER DIFFERENT ECOLOGICAL LEGACIES IN THE ARCTIC BOREAL FOREST, WHICH THEN FEEDBACK INTO CLIMATE WARMING AND CHANGES TO LANDSCAPE PROCESSES.
NAU-Led Forest Research
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NAU-led research team receives $9.6M to study how Alaska’s forests change, adapt to warmer future

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Salmon’s Secret Superfood
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Salmon’s Secret Superfood discovered through ecosystem science. In the Eel River,...

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A trio of illustrated panels depicts the soil microbial communities in three treatments of a long-term warming experiment north of Flagstaff, Arizona. The panels are labeled in gray text, left to right: control, short-term warming, long-term warming. The control treatment, far left, depicts bacteria, protists, and other microorganisms identified by sequencing the soil’s metagenome in yellow, orange, green, and blue, along with chains of available nutrients. Soil depicted in the center panel, which has undergone short-term warming, shows an increased abundance and diversity of microbes, some of which are growing, incorporating nutrients, and respiring carbon dioxide. The soil that has undergone long-term warming, imagined in the panel on the right, shows fewer microbial species and competitive relationships that are developing for control of the scarcer nutrients.
Ecoss Team Wins $3.4M for Study
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Does a warmer future favor microbial friend or foe? Ecoss researchers win $3.4M to study interactions in changing soil

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