October 27, 2021

Gabriela Serrato Marks

Gabriela Serrato Marks is a Ph.D. candidate in marine geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Shee uses stalagmites to create climate records that can be used by anthropologists and historians.

A picture taken at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research shows a tick, whose bite can transmit the Lyme disease.
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Climate Change Is Causing a Dangerous Uptick in Cases of Lyme Disease

Ticks that carry the pathogenic bacteria can now survive in environments where they previously would've frozen to death, resulting in an increased risk of infection.