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#1263852020-12-21
Egypt reports bird flu outbreaks in rural area
Local authorities in rural Egypt have declared a state of emergency after detecting two outbreaks of bird flu.Nagy Awad, head of the veterinary agency in the southwestern province of al-Wadi al-Gedid, said Sunday that avian influenza was detected in two poultry farms in the villages of Ezab el-Q ...
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#1263542020-12-18
The problems of dietary simplification
New Food’s Editor looks at the issue of dietary simplification and how a lack of biodiversity is impacting both health and food security.
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#1263152020-12-17
Expanded biodiversity infrastructure is essential for pandemic preparedness, say experts
When you imagine a visit to a natural history museum, the first thing that springs to mind could be dinosaur bones or taxidermized animals.
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#1262762020-12-16
To Prevent the Next COVID-19, Prioritise Biodiversity
From the most remote terrestrial wilderness to the most densely populated cities, humans are inexorably changing the planet. We have put 1 million species at risk of extinction, degraded soil and habitats, polluted the air and water, destroyed forests and coral reefs wholesale, exploited wild sp ...
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#1262902020-12-16
'We might have a Covid-21 or Covid-22 coming our way'
We need a broader approach to health, says conservationist Cristián Samper. Our treatment of nature increases the risk of further pandemics
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#1262502020-12-15
First case of coronavirus detected in wild animal
The first known case of coronavirus in a wild animal has been reported, leading to calls for widespread monitoring of wildlife. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said a wild mink had tested positive around an infected mink farm in Utah.
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#1261722020-12-11
New Report from World Wildlife Fund Explores Planet-Based Diets
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released a report detailing ways countries can improve human health and restore the environment through sustainable diets.
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#1261682020-12-10
Why Mediterranean food culture is as important as the Mediterranean diet for sustainability
They say you are what you eat, but in reality, your diet will have much more impact on what is likely to become of you in the future. Genetics account for less than 20 per cent of a healthy life expectancy, leaving factors like diet and lifestyle making up the remaining 80 per cent. Food choices ...
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#1261102020-12-09
Why bees? Why honey?
Because this nature’s army is crucial for the productivity of our food system and the honey they make works for our well-being and health. This much we know. But what we ignore is just how quickly we can lose this gift of nature. Since the release of our investigation into the adulteration of ho ...
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#1260312020-12-07
Biological diversity increases life satisfaction
Under the current pandemic conditions, activities out in nature are a popular pastime. The beneficial effects of a diverse nature on people's mental health have already been documented by studies on a smaller scale. Scientists of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, the iDiv, and the ...
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#1260362020-12-07
Biodiversity is our Life Insurance
Since its early days, Slow Food has put the defense of biodiversity at the heart of its strategies. This precious natural resource is under threat worldwide, including in Europe. But what is biodiversity? What does it have to do with our food and health? And what is the European Union doing to r ...
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#1259772020-12-02
The next pandemic: New diseases could spread undetected in some of world's most connected cities
New infectious diseases could spread undetected in up to 20 per cent of the world's most connected cities, which are “slap bang in the middle” of high risk spillover zones but lack the health infrastructure needed to contain dangerous new pathogens.
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#1258592020-11-25
Covid pandemic has helped people to ‘re-engage’ with nature, says agency
Covid-19 challenged people’s abilities to cope with societal disruption but prompted stronger appreciation of “connectedness to the environment on a local scale” even within a few kilometres of home.
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#1258262020-11-24
COVID-19 and Biodiversity Loss: How Destruction of the Environment Leads to Pandemics
The devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have left us all wondering: What have we done wrong to create a global catastrophe that has killed more than a million people? The general public has been focusing on explanations related to the immediate present — that we have not taken the right ...
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#1258032020-11-20
Half of child psychiatrists surveyed say patients have environment anxiety
More than half of child and adolescent psychiatrists in England are seeing patients distressed about the state of the environment, a survey has revealed.
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#1257712020-11-19
How Nature Heals
Among all their marvels, trees are good listeners. They stand silently and courteously, holding space for all our thoughts – the happy ones and the sad ones. They’ve learned mercy, they’ve ea
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#1257352020-11-17
A one-health approach to prevent COVID-21, COVID-22 and other future pandemics
While still in the grips of a global pandemic, it has become painfully apparent that addressing the complex interactions of human, animal, and environmental health needs multilateral and national adoption of a fully integrated One Health approach, write Cristián Samper and Niels Annen.
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#1256602020-11-11
I Tried ‘Forest Bathing’ to Cure My COVID Fatigue
I rarely leave home because of the pandemic so I wondered, would going to a forest to do nothing in urban Singapore actually help my mental health?
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#1255312020-11-04
Could the Himalayas harbour the next pandemic?
The world is in an “era of pandemics”. Unless the destruction of the natural world is halted, diseases will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, kill more people and affect the global economy with more devastating impacts than ever before. This was the stark warning from the world’s leading s ...
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#1254252020-06-17
Why all human rights depend on a healthy environment
Recent revelations about the speed and scale of nature’s decline are hard to truly comprehend. Not since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago has the diversity and abundance of life on Earth plunged so precipitously.
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#1253872020-05-01
Biodiversity or Bust
Diseases transmitted from animals have decimated human populations at least since the bubonic plague appeared in Biblical times. Centuries later, preserving healthy ecosystems is the most effective – and the most cost-effective – way to prevent future outbreaks that endanger our lives and threat ...
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#1253502020-04-30
Deadlier outbreaks could follow coronavirus pandemic if people don't stop destroying nature, say experts
Rampant deforestation, uncontrolled expansion of agriculture, infrastructure development and exploitation of wild species have created a ‘perfect storm’ for the spillover of diseases from wildlife to people.
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#1253512020-04-30
The more we lose biodiversity, the worse will be the spread of infectious diseases
Do biodiversity losses aggravate transmission of infectious diseases spread by animals to humans? The jury is still out but several scientists say there is a “biodiversity dilution effect” in which declining biodiversity results in increased infectious-disease transmission.
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#1253272020-04-29
A diet of high-iron beans improves health of anemic women in Rwanda
Anemia is a global health problem common in low-income countries. Severe cases can lead to fatigue, heart problems, and complications in pregnancy. When widespread, anemia can also weigh on national economies.
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#1253282020-04-29
COVID-19 shows need to understand health interconnectedness
The transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus from a bat to a human and the human-to-human spread of COVID-19 demonstrates how animal, human, plant, and environmental health are interconnected, according to a team of One Health researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the UT Institute o ...
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#1252112020-04-21
3 ways nature in the city can do you good, even in self-isolation
Spending time at the beach or taking a walk in the park can help us recover from the mental and physical impacts of life’s stresses. But physical distancing measures to contain COVID-19 have included closing beaches, playgrounds and parks, adding to the challenges to our mental health. When we s ...
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#1252122020-04-21
Preserving biodiversity to contain viral outbreaks
Biodiversity is a natural repository for more than half of the medicines that we develop. A large number of disease outbreaks are zoonotic, primarily caused by ecological damage. By changing human behavior, we can make a big difference in terms of handling future pandemics, emphasizes Dr. Carlos ...
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#1251632020-04-17
The Covid-19 pandemic shows we must transform the global food system
It was bats. Or pangolins. To hear common narratives about the origins of Covid-19, there is a simple causal relationship between China’s consumption of wild animals and the coronavirus ravaging the globe.
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#1250832020-04-13
Study at zoos shows 42% of animals infected with 'Toxoplasma gondii'
Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, which can be passed from animals to human beings (zoonosis). It is widely spread all over the world and, though it does not generally present symptoms, it is considered to be a major cause of reproductive disorders in ...
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#1250532020-04-09
Africa: Six Nature Facts Related to Coronaviruses
Did you know that around 60 per cent of all infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic, as are 75 per cent of all emerging infectious diseases, in other words they come to us via animals?
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#1250542020-04-09
When biodiversity fails, human health is on the line
The rapid rise of disease caused by a new coronavirus seems to have caught much of the world by surprise. It shouldn’t have. An upsurge in the emergence of new infectious diseases started at least 30 years before this virus appeared. Some of these diseases have been transmitted from wild animals ...
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#1250552020-04-09
Infectious diseases from animals likely to cause further pandemics
As humans move to cities to settle, there is a sharp decline in biodiversity leading to several disturbances in the balance and relationship between humans and wild animals. A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis' One Health Institute, shows that this has led to the ...
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#1250562020-04-09
Deforestation isn't just an environmental problem. It's a public health crisis.
Deforestation, habitat loss and wildlife poaching aren't just environmental issues. They're among the driving forces behind the rise in global infectious disease outbreaks -- and likely contributed the current pandemic.
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#1250182020-04-08
Air pollution linked to far higher Covid-19 death rates, study finds
Air pollution is linked to significantly higher rates of death in people with Covid-19, according to analysis.The work shows that even a tiny, single-unit increase in particle pollution levels in the years before the pandemic is associated with a 15% increase in the death rate.
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#1250262020-04-08
This World Health Day, the world is grappling with the worst public health emergency in recent memory.
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has brought the link between zoonotic diseases - those transmitted from animals to humans - and wildlife trade into sharp focus. On World Health Day, WWF Calls For A Halt To The Illegal Wildlife Trade And Forest Crime
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#1249312020-03-30
Open Letter to Global Leaders – A Healthy Planet for Healthy People
Call to Action from the Planetary Emergency Partnership*: Emerging from the Planetary Emergency and partnering between People and Nature. It is time to harness our fears, build hope and drive action to respond to the human health, economic, climate and biodiversity crisis with solutions that bui ...
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#1249012020-03-26
COVID-19 updates from the United Nations Environment Programme
The transmission of diseases, like the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19, between animals and humans (zoonoses) threatens economic development, animal and human well-being, and ecosystem integrity. The United Nations Environment Programme supports global efforts to protect biodiversity, to put an end t ...
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#1248492020-03-25
Coronavirus and Climate Change: Observing World Water Day
The theme of this year’s World Water Day, observed on 22 March, is water and climate change. The issue has taken on greater urgency, given the global spread of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, responsible for over 13,000 deaths worldwide to date.
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#1248792020-03-25
Coronavirus: 'Nature is sending us a message’, says UN environment chief
Nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis, according to the UN’s environment chief, Inger Andersen.
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#1247742020-03-20
Karner Blue Capital identifies animal welfare and biodiversity as key factors in preventing future pandemics
Karner Blue Capital, an investment advisor working with publicly traded companies that incorporate animal welfare and biodiversity protection into their operations, is calling attention to the link between infectious diseases like COVID-19 and the mistreatment of animals in order to highlight th ...
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#1247832020-03-20
'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past 40 years
The next time you eat sashimi, nigiri or other forms of raw fish, consider doing a quick check for worms. A new study led by the University of Washington finds dramatic increases in the abundance of a worm that can be transmitted to humans who eat raw or undercooked seafood
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#1248062020-03-20
Paul R. Ehrlich: A pandemic, planetary reckoning, and a path forward
For more than half a century, scientists have been expressing concern over the deterioration of what I like to call the "epidemiological environment." That environment consists of the constellation of circumstances that influence patterns of disease and factors related to health.
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#1248072020-03-20
ASEAN highlights long-term health measures amid COVID-19 pandemic
As parts of the world come to a standstill to stop the spread of the new Coronavirus disease or COVID-19, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) underscores the importance of taking a long-term view of the situation and integrating biodiversity into the design and implementation of health progr ...
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#1247212020-03-17
Destruction Of Habitat And Loss Of Biodiversity Are Creating The Perfect Conditions For Diseases Like Covid-19 To Emerge
Mayibout 2 is not a healthy place. The 150 or so people who live in the village, which sits on the south bank of the Ivindo River, deep in the great Minkebe forest in northern Gabon, are used to occasional bouts of diseases such as malaria, dengue, yellow fever and sleeping sickness. Mostly they ...
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#1246592020-03-13
Forest-Inspired Beauty Is Here To Save You From Stress And Help Your Skin
We’ve long looked to Japan for the latest beauty and wellness trends, and the latest one, forest bathing, is no exception. Known as Shinrin-Yoku, the practice entails simply spending time in nature and using all of our senses to take in the soothing forest atmosphere.
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#1246602020-03-13
Greenpeace proposes 70% meat consumption reduction by 2030
Europeans devour 1.58 kg of meat per week, which has serious effects on the climate. Among Europeans, the French are the 6th-biggest meat consumers, chomping through 83 kilos per year per person. By comparison, the Spaniards eat more than 100 kilos of meat, while Bulgarians only eat 58 kilos.
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#1246252020-03-11
And Breathe… The Value Of The Natural World
If you consult your doctor, you would probably not expect them to advise you to take a walk in the park. But the value of immersing yourself in the natural world has been recognised by a recent report from Griffith University. It is possible that park visits will become a routine part of prescri ...
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#1245922020-03-10
How biodiversity loss is hurting our ability to combat pandemics
The frequency of disease outbreaks has been increasing steadily. Between 1980 and 2013 there were 12,012 recorded outbreaks, comprising 44 million individual cases and affecting every country in the world. A number of trends have contributed to this rise, including high levels of global travel, ...
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#1245752020-03-09
How biodiversity loss is hurting our ability to combat pandemics
The frequency of disease outbreaks has been increasing steadily. Between 1980 and 2013 there were 12,012 recorded outbreaks, comprising 44 million individual cases and affecting every country in the world.
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#1243592020-02-25
Ecological grief: I mourn the loss of nature – it saved me from addiction
I was struggling with my mental health when I started wandering daily on the marshes. The experience opened my eyes to the extraordinary healing power of the natural world