White nose syndrome — United States
The spread of white nose syndrome (WNS) across the United States has devastated bat populations, with some caves losing more than 90 percent of their occupants to the pernicious fungal disease. Until very recently, researchers working on the issue weren’t quite sure of the cause — beyond knowing that the fungus responsible for the infection is called _Pseudogymnoascus destructans_ — and they hadn’t come up with a good solution, either. This year, that’s changed, in a serendipitous incidence
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