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The disease after tomorrow

Grist

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. Since 2014, cases of the virus in the U.S.

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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

Out of more than 200 groups currently listed on its website, 51 are from the United States and Canada, compared to only 11 from Africa. In these systems, dairy herds cover wide areas, eating as they go and leaving their waste on the ground where it fertilises the soil. But Global North groups dominate.

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Tufton Street Linked Donors Have Given £630,000 to the Conservatives Since Sunak Became Prime Minister

DeSmogBlog

Two ministers, Minister of State for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell , and Home Secretary Suella Braverman , have also contributed to CPS reports during this period. But for the ideas whose reputation her incompetence soiled,” as reported in the New Statesman’s Morning Call newsletter. Not for her own benefit.