/ Tumors Content for 不良研究所 en /climate/news/scientists-investigate-green-sea-turtle-tumor-disease <p><span><span>A new epidemiological study of endangered juvenile green sea turtles in eastern Brazil suggests that factors such as water temperature, salinity and proximity to environmental stressors could trigger the development of a tumor disease associated with a herpesvirus.</span></span></p> August 31, 2023 - 8:00am Emily C Dooley /climate/news/scientists-investigate-green-sea-turtle-tumor-disease /news/scientists-find-widespread-ear-tumors-%E2%80%94-and-promising-solution-%E2%80%94-endangered-catalina-island <p>Until recently, endangered foxes on California鈥檚 Catalina Island were suffering from one of the highest prevalences of tumors ever documented in a wildlife population, 不良研究所 scientists have found. But treatment of ear mites appears to be helping the wild animals recover.</p> <p>Roughly half of adult foxes examined between 2001 and 2008 had tumors in their ears, with about two-thirds of those malignant, according to a 不良研究所 study published this month in the journal PLOS ONE.</p> December 07, 2015 - 11:10am IET WebDev /news/scientists-find-widespread-ear-tumors-%E2%80%94-and-promising-solution-%E2%80%94-endangered-catalina-island