Resilience Photo by René Riegal on Unsplash As temperatures rise, Melbourne’s bats get their own sprinkler system On the hottest days, a refreshing mist will cool down flying foxes, which have suffered mass death in Australian heat waves.
Impactscommons.wikimedia.org Deforestation brings bat-borne virus home to roost Habitat loss and food shortages have pushed bats into closer proximity to horses and humans, fueling Hendra virus spillover, a new study suggests.
Impactswww.flickr.com Climate change will accelerate viral spillovers, study finds In a warming world, bats in Southeast Asia will be especially prone to spreading viruses to other mammals, researchers found.
Impacts www.nytimes.com Saving the bats, one cave at a time Biologists are searching caves and abandoned mines in the West, hoping to spare many species of the winged creatures from the devastating fungus, white-nose syndrome.
