Bat populations look to bounce back from another setback from deadly fungus

Across North America, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and other pesticides had a significant impact on bats from the 1940s through the ’60s. Since the ban on DDT in 1972, bat populations had been slowly recovering, until a fungal disease appeared three-plus decades later.

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