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The 404 1,221: Where it's the fungus that kills us (podcast)
2013-03-06 21:30:00| CNET News.com
Scott Stein joins Jeff Bakalar on this episode of the 404. The guys geek out over the plot line in The Last of Us, roll their eyes at today's insane weather coverage and hypothesize about the next Star Wars film. [Read more]
Central America battles to save coffee from fungus
2013-01-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Central America is scrambling to contain a coffee-eating fungus that has invaded a third of the impoverished region's crops, threatening to cost the vital industry hundreds of millions of dollars. Entire families depend on work from the coffee-growing industry in Central America, which employs more than 1.5 million people to produce one of the world's most renowned Arabica beans. But in September, two months before the annual harvest, the fungus known as roya began to spread due to a lack of...
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Fortified by Global Warming, Deadly Fungus Poisons Corn Crops, Causes Cancer
2013-01-15 18:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Last years drought increased the spread of a carcinogenic mold called aspergillus (Aspergillus flavus), a fungal pathogen that poisons cattle, kills pets and has infected the 2012 corn crop, rendering significant portions of the harvest unfit for consumption. Whereas the deadly organism mainly affects countries like China and developing African nations, many U.S. states have experienced an increase in corn contamination since 2011. Farmers are likely to see more of the carcinogen as temperatures...
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Frantic fight to save frogs from killer fungus
2013-01-06 04:36:58| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In moist, mossy rooms, rows of glass aquariums bathed in an eerie light shelter the last of the last of the frogs. It is a secure facility, for here reside the sole survivors of their species, rescued from the wild before a modern plague swept through their home forests and streams in a ferocious doomsday event that threatens these amphibians with extinction. Time is running out. In what may be the greatest disease-driven loss of biodiversity in recorded history, hundreds of frog species around...