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History of the use of medicinal plants

Low Impact

This article explores the history of the legal rights of herbalists to practise, and looks particularly at the use of medicinal plants in wartime Britain. The documentation of the use of herbs in Britain in the two World Wars reminds us that we still have our own medicinal resources here in the UK.

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Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study

Envirotec Magazine

A seemingly world-first study of daily ambient fine particulate matter ( PM 2.5 ) across the globe reports that only 0.18% of the global land area and 0.001% of the global population are exposed to levels of PM 2.5 – the world’s leading environmental health risk factor – below levels of safety recommended by Word Health Organization (WHO).

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‘A common germ pool’: The frightening origins of the coronavirus

Grist

“There seems to be a pretty clear signal that there are more disease emergence events,” said Aaron Bernstein, interim director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Health. That has enormous health consequences.”. We’re becoming an enormously voracious species of 7.5

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Na’im Merchant Is Advancing a Blueprint for Equitable Carbon Removal Policy

Elemental Excelerator

Na’im, who previously worked with Last Mile Health and the Clinton Health Access Initiative to address social and health inequities in Liberia and Malawi, recognized climate change would exacerbate these global inequities and turned his attention to work on CDR to fend off — and one day reverse — its harmful effects.

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Dengue, Lyme, and cholera: how climate change is spurring disease

Grist

Zak Smith, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s wildlife division, who was not involved in the IPCC’s report, told Grist that governments largely aren’t prepared to take the necessary steps to protect public health from the increased risk of disease due to climate change.

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Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks.

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‘Narratives of Delay’: How the Animal Pharma Industry Resists Moves to Curb the Overuse of Antibiotics on Farms 

DeSmogBlog

Two years after landmark European Union legislation designed to curb the overuse of antibiotics on farms came into force, new analysis from DeSmog reveals eight key narratives the veterinary medicine and farming lobbies deploy to defend the billion-dollar market for the drugs. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., and Zoetis Inc.