Mosquito-City 
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 9, 2023
Cigarette butts are an omnipresent feature of the urban landscape in many cities. The study appears to show that these toxins lead to a 20% higher mortality rate among mosquito larvae. The study appears to show that these toxins lead to a 20% higher mortality rate among mosquito larvae. It’s hazardous waste.”
GatesNotes
AUGUST 17, 2020
A city where researchers study how to repel, attract, and kill the world’s deadliest animal.
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Grist
APRIL 17, 2021
This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified, or GM, mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Oxitec says its technology will combat dengue fever, a potentially life-threatening disease, and other mosquito-borne viruses — such as Zika — mainly transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
The Environmental Blog
JANUARY 22, 2020
Cities have recently experienced immense floods – carbon emissions are on the rise and ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted almost entirely. Even towns and cities that aren’t near bodies of water will be harmed, as extreme weather trends aren’t limited to fires and floods. Food Security.
TIME Ecocentric
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
A mosquito-borne virus identified in the West Nile subregion in Uganda in 1937 — hence the name — West Nile wasn’t much of a concern to people elsewhere until it broke out of Africa in 1999. cases were confirmed in New York City in 1999, and it has now spread throughout much of the world. The first U.S.
Grist
APRIL 5, 2023
area, New York City, and the New Jersey coastline all clocked their earliest spring on record, said Theresa Crimmins, director of the National Phenology Network, a group that collects data on seasons and other natural cycles. But, in some places, spring arrived extremely early — earlier than any time in the past four decades.
Grist
AUGUST 30, 2023
Earlier this month, wildfires tore through Maui , engulfing the port city of Lahaina, burning 3,200 acres of land and killing at least 115 people, more than any other wildfire in modern U.S. Zoya Teirstein A pitch pine shows signs of life after a wildfire in Minnewaska State Park 2016. Zoya Teirstein Some forests are not built to burn.
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