article thumbnail

The disease after tomorrow

Grist

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. Historical range: Chikungunya fever was first identified in Tanzania in the 1950s, remained relatively rare for half a century, and then exploded into more than 60 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas after 2004. Since 2014, cases of the virus in the U.S.

Health 144
article thumbnail

Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. A systematic review based on multiple studies concluded that emissions “differ considerably per diet, with a vegan diet having the lowest CO2eq production per 2000 kcal consumed.”

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Northeast’s hemlock trees face extinction. A tiny fly could save them.

Grist

A prior Harvard study showed that woolly adelgid could take an 8 percent bite out of northeastern forests’ carbon sequestering capabilities between 2000 and 2040. A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age.

Carbon 145
article thumbnail

Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

Low Impact

And regular usage – about 2000 active traders per week. Do you think these ideas will spread more rapidly in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Here are ways we can support the environment, regenerate the soil etc, but we don’t have the money. Most land in Kenya was fertile soil 200 years ago. Is that right? Is that right?

Africa 95