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People can sicken animals

By Amanda Leigh Mascarelli / April 17, 2013

Wildlife can sometimes become infected with germs shed by people

Posted in Animals, Body & Health | Tagged biological pollution, bobcats, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, cats, clams, crabs, ecology, emerging infectious disease, explainer, feces, filter feeders, germs, marine mammals, Melissa Miller, microbe, microbiology, mollusk, mussels, Oysters, parasite, pathogen, Pollution, runoff, sea otters, terms: pets, toxoplasma, toxoplasmosis, wetlands, wildcat, wildlife

Cool Jobs: Wild science

By Sharon Oosthoek / August 16, 2012

Arctic researcher Kathy Young (rear) walks back to her remote research cabin on Canada’s Bathurst Island with her student Valen Steer. Credit: Tarmo Remmel

Collecting data can be dangerous for scientists who work in the field

Posted in Science Education, STEM Careers | Tagged Arctic, atrazine, Bathurst Island, cool jobs, feature, field research, fieldwork, frog, fungus-farming ants, hippo, hydrology, Inuit, Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo, Kathy Young, permafrost, polar bear, topstories, Tyrone Hayes, wetlands