How New York City bats are surviving a deadly epidemic

White-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats in the two decades since it was discovered in caves in upstate New York. Some species’ numbers have plummeted by more than 90%. As the epidemic has spread across the United States, biologists have been hard at work developing ways to help bats fight the infection. They’ve also been trying to figure out why some bat species are so severely impacted by the disease. Over the last month, Magali Gauthier spoke to experts about what they’ve learned and how New York City bats have fared in the face of the epidemic. Image: A tri-colored bat shows signs of white-nose syndrome on its face and wings in Georgia in 2013. [Credit: National Park Service via Wikimedia Commons]