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

Envirotec Magazine

Now this study, led by Professor Yuming Guo, from the Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Melbourne, Australia, and published in Lancet Planetary Health , provides a map of how PM 2.5 air pollution in August and September in South America and from June to September in sub-Saharan Africa.”

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

Grist

There are estimates of billions of additional people at risk of dengue fever later in the century,” Kristie Ebi, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington and a co-author of the report, said on Sunday. So are serious water-borne diseases such as vibriosis and cholera, which cause nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting.

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The Amazon has lost over 10 million football fields of forest in a decade

AGreenLiving

We lose not only those plants and animals we know of, but even undiscovered ones with medicinal potential that could never be recovered. The Amazon’s deforestation is considerable because it is the world’s largest rainforest , spanning nine South American countries and measuring about 25 times the size of the United Kingdom.

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How regulations can tear down the barriers faced by the cultivated meat industry

Business Green

The report defines a cultivated meat as one which has been produced using tissue engineering techniques that have been pioneered in regenerative medicine. Similarly, chickens in the UK are largely fed on soya which is often imported from South America. The sector has developed rapidly over the past decade.

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The search for the Dr. Fauci of climate change

Grist

It’s worsening the spread of infectious diseases, like dengue across South America, increasing the possibility of global pandemics in the near future. It’s not just about the patient-physician relationship,” said Dr. Jay Lemery, an emergency medicine physician and professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

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Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. Leisure activities: Biking, Board Games, Traveling, Hiking, Brewing(coffee and beers), and Books (science and philosophy).