Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In the past four years, as the situation has improved in Southeast Asia, it has gotten worse in Brazil and other parts of South America as ranchers and land speculators convert forests into cattle pastures. That’s the good news, but it’s only half the story. Spin the globe from Indonesia to Brazil, and you’ll find stark differences.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to a 2010 study on managing soils to mitigate climate change, soils used for agriculture contain 25 to 75 percent less soil organic carbon “than their counterparts in undisturbed or natural ecosystems.” . per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

When she died in 2013, no doctors mentioned environmental causes. It’s worsening the spread of infectious diseases, like dengue across South America, increasing the possibility of global pandemics in the near future. In New Jersey, over 47,000 people were hospitalized for gastrointestinal illness between 2009 and 2013.

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