Big Solar: wildlife sanctuaries, industrial blights, or next-gen agriculture?
Monday, February 10, 2020 - 4:10pm
Rob Davis, Fresh Energy, Center for Pollinators in Energy
Rob Davis, Fresh Energy, Center for Pollinators in Energy
BOSTON, Aug. 20, 2018 — Nearly 700 million people suffer from mosquito-borne diseases — such as malaria, West Nile, Zika and dengue fever — each year, resulting in more than 1 million deaths. Increasingly, many species of mosquitoes have become resistant to the popular pyrethroid-based insecticides. Today, researchers report a new class of mosquito repellents based on naturally occurring compounds that are effective in repelling mosquitoes with potentially fewer environmental side effects than existing repellents.