{"id":41441,"date":"2013-06-17T13:09:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=41441"},"modified":"2013-06-17T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T17:09:53","slug":"study-frog-die-off-now-caused-by-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2013\/06\/study-frog-die-off-now-caused-by-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Frog die off now caused by global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if pesticides can&#8217;t be blamed, global warming must be the next culprit in line.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Oregon State researchers report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amphibian populations are declining worldwide and a major cause is a deadly fungus thought to be spread by bullfrogs, but a two-year study shows they can also die from this pathogen, contrary to suggestions that bullfrogs are a tolerant carrier host that just spreads the disease&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne possibility for the fungal increase is climate change, which can also compromise the immune systems of amphibians,\u201d said Andrew Blaustein, a distinguished professor of zoology at OSU and international leader in the study of amphibian declines. \u201cThere are a lot of possible ways the fungus can spread. People can even carry it on their shoes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/ua\/ncs\/archives\/2013\/jun\/bullfrogs-may-help-spread-deadly-amphibian-fungus-also-die-it\">Read the Oregon State media release.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if pesticides can&#8217;t be blamed, global warming must be the next culprit in line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy","category-pesticides"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-aMp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}