Professional sterilization teams can be seen outside the main entrance of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China in March 2020, shortly after its closure.

Racoon dogs are implicated as one of the potential animals that could have been the source of Covid

PhD student Savannah Fuqua was part of the Fall 2021 inaugural BRIDGES cohort.

A hillside near the Wayqecha field station in Peru. The Amazon rainforest spans an area twice the size of India, and is one of the world's largest carbon sinks.

Jake Bryant

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced today the election of their newest 250 members, including Judith Bronstein, a University of Arizona Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a BIO5 Institute member.

Partners from UArizona and the French National Centre for Scientific Research will convene to celebrate accomplishments and renew commitment to shared goals of the institute, which was established one year ago.

In a new paper published in Science, UArizona virus expert Michael Worobey connects the dots from the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and shows that an origin other than the Huanan Seafood Market is extremely unlikely. 

Surprisingly little is known about how rain moves through landscapes once it's on the ground. UArizona's Landscape Evolution Observatory is designed to provide answers. A $3.5 million grant will allow scientists to study the roles plants and microbes play in the process.

Combining extensive species mapping with remote sensing records of deforestation and fire reveals that the Amazon's biodiversity is extraordinarily vulnerable to changes in forest management and policy enforcement. 

He will be greatly missed by the EEB community, and by ecologists worldwide.