Killer fungus: how a disease threatening bat species has spread to northern Canada

Bat experts were shocked at how fast white-nose syndrome had reached Canada’s northernmost colonies from the US. Now, the race is on to find a cure before species disappear Crawling through a narrow passage in a cave beneath a boreal forest near Fort Smith in Canada’s Northwest Territories in May, two biologists spotted a lifeless bat on a limestone ledge, its body covered in a spindly white…