A global fungal pandemic wiped out amphibians, destroyed biodiversity, and ultimately increased human illness. Now a second similar pathogen is on the way.
KAREN LIPS HAS never forgotten the silence. It was the early 1990s; she was finishing her PhD in tropical biology, and had come back to a research site in Costa Rica, a protected reserve high up in the mountains, after a short break. On her previous visit, the air had been full of the sounds of the frog species she was studying. Now, inexplicably, almost all the frogs were gone.
She was mystified and alarmed, but she arranged to move her research sites further south in Central America, into the mountains of Panama and eventually as far south as the border with Colombia. Wherever she and her colleagues went, though, they found a wave of death preceding them. “By the time we got there,” she recalls, “it was already too late.”
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KAREN LIPS HAS never forgotten the silence. It was the early 1990s; she was finishing her PhD in tropical biology, and had come back to a research site in Costa Rica, a protected reserve high up in the mountains, after a short break. On her previous visit, the air had been full of the sounds of the frog species she was studying. Now, inexplicably, almost all the frogs were gone.
She was mystified and alarmed, but she arranged to move her research sites further south in Central America, into the mountains of Panama and eventually as far south as the border with Colombia. Wherever she and her colleagues went, though, they found a wave of death preceding them. “By the time we got there,” she recalls, “it was already too late.”
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