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Major Animal Pharma Industry Group Forced to Remove UN Logo from ‘Misleading’ Briefing on Livestock Climate Impact

DeSmogBlog

The animal pharmaceutical sector produces vaccines, antibiotics, and other medicines for food, clothing, and companion animals – although food animals are the biggest earner. HfA’s member turnover in 2020 totalled about $26 billion – more than half the sector’s global value. Last year, the animal medicine sector was valued at $45.4

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

Grist

Climate change is already having “widespread, pervasive impacts” on people everywhere in the world, a new report from the scientific panel says, due to the warming that has occurred so far — roughly 1.09 Global warming doesn’t only affect humans by changing the weather and melting the ice caps, the report warns.

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This invasive bug is terrorizing Pennsylvania growers (and it’s coming for your wine)

Grist

Lycorma delicatula , named for the lantern-shaped body of the adult that appears to glow under its dull wings, is used in traditional medicine in China, its native land. In the early 20th century, Dutch elm disease, a fungus from Asia that is spread by elm bark beetles, killed 75 percent of native elms. In the U.S.,

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How farmers and seaweed can help tackle ocean pollution

Business Green

Chock-full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, seaweed has been a staple of Asian diets and traditional medicine for centuries, and its various applications in food production and scientific research date back decades. Between 1969 and 2019, global seaweed production increased to 35.8 Asia dominates the market with 97.4

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Girl Scouts Camp Trivera combines STEM and sustainable architecture

AGreenLiving

Hiking , canoeing and archery will be just some of the activities offered in addition to a zipline that stretches more than four city blocks into the Oklahoma City Zoo’s Sanctuary Asia elephant enclosure, which is located just across the camp’s lake. A NASA-certified instructor will lead designated courses in astronomy.