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A Bat-Borne Virus Is Poised to Become a Pandemic in Bangladesh. Can We Stop It?

Nipah virus is one of eight diseases that the World Health Organization has identified as epidemic threats in need of prioritization, and ways to curb it are running thin.

Steven Bedard

Environment

A New Deterrent System Could Help Save Bats From Wind Turbines

Jamming bats' echolocation with ultrasound is showing promise in reducing fatalities at wind energy facilities.

Mary Bates

Environment

Mapping Bat Communications With Artificial Intelligence Could Be Key to Conversation

Scientists have developed an open-source artificial intelligence algorithm for acoustic identification of bat species that could help save them from the threat of wind farms.

Javier Lyonnet

Colorado Climbers Race to Gather Data About Bats Before a Fungal Disease Hits the State

Biologists have little idea where many of Colorado's bats reside. Athletes are helping.

Sophie Yeo

Environment

Windmills: 600,000, Bats: 0. Time for a New Game?

A new study estimates that at least 600,000 bats died last year in the Lower 48 from wind turbines.

Michael Todd

Environment

Wind Turbines: Saving the Planet but Butchering Bats

At a recent evening “batwalk” at the University of California’s Sedgwick Reserve conducted by vertebrate biologist Paul W.…

Michael Todd

Social Justice

Bats Get Pre-Halloween Help

With white-nose syndrome continuing to plague North American bats, the federal government is sending some academics to the rescue.

Michael Todd

Environment

White Nose Swings at European Bats

A fungus linked to widespread destruction of U.S. bat colonies has been found on a thriving French bat.

David Richardson

Economics

Bat-Killing Disease Marches South

Al Hicks took it hard when laboratory tests confirmed the presence of white-nose syndrome among recently killed bats…

David Richardson