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#1243662020-02-25
Top 5 Ways Biodiversity Loss Affects Humans
Human-driven nature and biodiversity loss is threatening life on our planet. Biodiversity loss affects humans more severely than you could imagine.
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#1242402020-02-19
Advancing One Health: Protecting People, Gorillas, and the Land on which They Live
In 2003, a scabies skin disease outbreak affecting mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park was traced to people living around the national park—people with limited access to basic health and social services. To protect the people and wildlife of this special park, we launched Cons ...
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#1242462020-02-19
The world is failing to ensure children have a 'liveable planet', report finds
Every country in the world is failing to shield children’s health and their futures from intensifying ecological degradation, climate change and exploitative marketing practices, says a new report.
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#1239402020-01-24
Human health linked to state of the oceans, says US researcher
Humankind is fundamentally connected to the ocean and we need to protect the health of the sea to protect our own health. That's the view of US ecologist Professor Phil Levin who was the keynote speaker at the three-day Transformed and Transformative Ocean Governance Conference in Port Elizabeth ...
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#1238792020-01-22
New insight on global food production and ways to adopt sustainable food system
"When looking at the status of planet Earth and the influence of current global agriculture practices upon it, there's a lot of reason to worry, but also reason for hope - if we see decisive actions very soon," Dieter Gerten says, lead author from PIK and professor at Humboldt University of Berlin.
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#1237392020-01-15
Food Is the Cause—And Cure—For Health and Environment, Says Dr. Hyman
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” New York Times bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman joins NowThis sustainability reporter Lucy Biggers to discuss how America’s food system is connected to adverse health outcomes—and environmental harm. “Food is a nexus where everything comes together,” says Dr ...
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#1236652020-01-13
Can Biodiversity In Urban Neighborhoods Be Related To Mental Health?
Acquiring properties within a concrete jungle may be the goal of every person trying to make a mark in this world, however, there are downsides to this aspiration. Particularly, in terms of the barriers that it places between man and nature, causing mental health problems such as depression, anx ...
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#1234592019-12-16
World’s 1st dengue drug, made by Pinoys
The dengue research was part of the DOST’s Tuklas Lunas program to produce reliable and affordable medicines sourced from the country’s rich biodiversity.
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#1232112019-12-02
Green spaces in cities can help people live longer
The world's largest review to date has recently established just how important urban green space is for staving off premature death.Some 63% of people in the United States live in cities.
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#1231062019-11-25
Food for thought: dietary changes can improve our health, health of planet
Our health and what we eat are inextricably linked. A balanced, nutritious diet gives us energy, keeps us focused and keeps many medical conditions at bay.
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#1229762019-11-13
Importance of oceans for human health, and the need to protect them, is focus of conference in Seychelles
The importance of the oceans in the lives of humans and why they need protecting were some of the main points of discussion during a two-day conference in Seychelles.
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#1229252019-11-08
What bamboo forests do for nature and human well-being
Bamboo, which belongs to the grass family, is one of the fastest growing species of the plant kingdom. Its herculean attributes are not at first obvious when encountered in the forest.
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#1229412019-11-08
Diet for healthy people, healthy planet too costly for some
At US$2.84 per head per day, the ‘ideal diet’ would be beyond reach for nearly 1.6 billion people, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, researchers say.
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#1228932019-11-07
Biodiversity may benefit mental health by affecting gut bacteria
New research in mice suggests that exposure to a biodiverse soil may improve mental health by raising levels of a bacterium with anxiety-relieving effects.
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#1229102019-11-07
Healthy ecosystems, healthy humans: ‘One Health’ broadens its scope
The world’s most impoverished communities don’t need to be told that intact ecosystems are vital to their health, says Joseph Walston, vice president for field conservation programs with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). They get it.
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#1229152019-11-07
The human health benefits of conserving and restoring peatlands
It is well known that peatlands matter for livelihoods, carbon storage, flood mitigation, and water quality, but a recent study has shown that peatlands also matter for human health.
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#1226152019-10-10
Caring for the environment helps to care for your mental health
On this World Mental Health Day, we draw attention to the relationship between mental health and the environment.
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#1225892019-10-09
If you go down to the woods today...it will banish the winter blues, say health experts
Spending time in nature even when the nights draw in can help alleviate the winter blues, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Forestry England have advised.
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#1219062019-08-15
Life on thin ice
Greenland’s melting has been adopted by the world as its own problem. But for the islanders grieving their dissolving world, the crisis is personal, and dangerous
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#1217562019-07-31
Selective antibiotics following nature's example
With multi-resistant germs becoming more and more of a threat, we are in need of new antibiotics now more than ever.
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#1217332019-07-29
Increasing tree cover may be like a 'superfood' for community mental health
Increasing tree canopy and green cover across Greater Sydney and increasing the proportion of homes in urban areas within 10 minutes' walk of quality green, open and public space are among the New South Wales premier's new priorities.
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#1215552019-07-11
Can we feed 11 billion people while preventing the spread of infectious disease?
A new article describes how the increase in population and the need to feed everyone will give rise to human infectious disease, a situation the authors of the paper consider 'two of the most formidable ecological and public health challenges of the 21st century.'
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#1215282019-07-10
Flesh-Eating Bacteria Infects Three as Experts Warn Warming Oceans Could Make It More Common
Within the last month, at least three people have contracted a flesh-eating infection from an ocean-dwelling bacterium — an occurrence that experts warn could become more frequent as the world's oceans warm.
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#1207622019-04-15
Allergy Season Is Getting Worse, Thanks To Climate Change
Allergy sufferers are having a rough time of it this spring. If you're among them, and if you think it's getting worse, you're right–and climate change is at least partly to blame.
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#1206592019-04-05
Better sewage treatment critical for human health and ecosystems
World Health Day on 7 April is a reminder that effective wastewater management and sanitation systems are vital for human health. The volume of sewage in the world is set to rise in line with population growth. Furthermore, the growth in global wealth means our wastewater, including sewage, cont ...
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#1206612019-04-05
Biodiversity sustains human health
The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) joins the international community in observing World Health Day on 7 April. The theme for this year’s celebration is universal health coverage. The World Health Organization reported that millions of people still have no access to health care. About 100 mi ...
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#1206652019-04-05
Tree therapy: what we can learn from the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku
Chained to our desk, a computer monitor in front of our face, smartphone accompanying us wherever we go, the stresses of everyday urban life can sometimes seem insurmountable. With more than 7m years of human evolution, we have spent less than 0.1% of that time living in cities – and we have yet ...
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#1206352019-04-04
The diets cutting one in five lives short every year
The food we eat is putting 11 million of us into an early grave each year, an influential study shows. The analysis, in the Lancet, found that our daily diet is a bigger killer than smoking and is now involved in one in five deaths around the world.
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#1205992019-04-01
Health benefits of Lemon
Lemon, Citrus limon, belongs to family of evergreen flowering plants called Rutaceae. Lemon issued for culinary purposes as well as in cleaning and cosmetics.
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#1205642019-03-29
Germ warfare: Biodiversity might be the cure for modern sickness – and lower health costs as well
Adelaide researchers are exploring a very big idea that would tackle the rise of allergies, asthma and immune diseases – and the spiralling cost of healthcare.
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#1205372019-03-27
Urban biodiversity to lower chronic disease
Replanting urban environments with native flora could be a cost effective way to improve public health because it will help 'rewild' the environmental and human microbiota, University of Adelaide researchers say.
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#1204742019-03-25
Conserving These Endangered Prawns Is A Tasty Way To Protect Human Health
Restocking rivers in tropical and subtropical Africa with a large endangered freshwater prawn not only provides locals with a protein-rich food source, but it also breaks the deadly life cycle of schistosomiasis
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#1203342019-03-13
Communicating the health of the planet and its links to human health
The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health1 in 2015 argued that although human health has improved dramatically between 1950 and 2010, this gain was accompanied by unprecedented environmental degradation that now threatens both human health and life-support systems.
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#1202662019-03-07
How you can change your diet to benefit both your health and the planet
A plant-based diet, with less meat and more vegetables, could help save both human health and the environment, according to a report released last month by the EAT-Lancet Commission on Wednesday, Jan. 16.
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#1202692019-03-07
Shout out for peace and quiet
We all suffer stress and anxiety to some degree and reported stress levels are generally increasing. The Mental Health Foundation recently found that three quarters of people in the UK had felt so stressed in the past year that they were overwhelmed or unable to cope.
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#1201652019-03-01
Sweating the small things
Matt Bonds was young and idealistic when, as a postdoc, he set out with economist Jeffrey Sachs, a rock star in the development world, in his quest to end poverty. But the Millennium Villages Project on which they worked—a package of interventions from seeds to schools to clinics designed to imp ...
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#1201132019-02-26
Being surrounded by green space in childhood may improve mental health of adults
Children who grow up with greener surroundings have up to 55% less risk of developing various mental disorders later in life. This is shown by a new study from Aarhus University, Denmark, emphasizing the need for designing green and healthy cities for the future.
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#1201142019-02-26
Biodiversity, people’s livelihoods at risk in Chindwin River Basin
The Chindwin River, the largest tributary of the Ayeyarwady River, is vital to the lives of thousands of communities in Myanmar. Its basin ecosystem offers ecological services and biological diversity that provide the essential needs for six million people, from drinking and irrigation water, fo ...
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#1200622019-02-22
Research into chimp health benefits human, ecosystem well-being too
Chimpanzees’ health is not just an issue of concern for conservationists or animal rights activists.
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#1199212019-02-12
Ancient Greek Wisdom for a Healthy Gut and Immune System
The ancient Greek Father of Medicine, Hippocrates penned that “all diseases begin in the gut” and that for true healing and optimum health that we need to exercise, “let medicine be thy food and food thy medicine” and the “natural forces within us are the true healers of disease”.
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#1198932019-02-11
A less meaty Year of the Pig?
A few days before the Chinese New Year, staff at a popular Sichuanese restaurant in Beijing’s Dongcheng district were busy serving customers and taking reservations for New Year’s Eve. Meat accounted for at least 65 per cent of the dishes on the New Year menu, typical of the several restaurants ...
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#1197602019-02-05
Seychelles ranked first in Africa for ocean health
The Ocean Health Index (OHI) has ranked Seychelles first in Africa after the latest global assessment of ocean health. Globally the island nation came out 33rd amongst 220 countries and territories. Morocco and Egypt were ranked second and third on the continent.
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#1197052019-01-31
Feeding the Ten Billion
Our current diets are bad for our health and are harming the planet. Two billion people are now overweight or obese. Poor diet is the biggest cause of noncommunicable disease in the world, posing a greater risk of morbidity and mortality than unsafe sex, alcohol, tobacco, and drug abuse combined.
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#1196492019-01-29
The new Lonyiri nature walks in Kidepo a great tourist attraction
From searching for insects, to birds, to different plant species with their unique names, animals, nature lovers in December braved the Lonyiri 25km nature walk in Kidepo valley national park and ventured out in the newly discovered nature walk, to indulge in nature.
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#1196642019-01-29
It’s nature, stupid! A new deal for nature will improve the economy and wellbeing
In pursuit of wealth creation and economic development we are destroying the very nature we depend on - this must change, says Maxwell Gomera
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#1196222019-01-28
The way we eat is killing us – and the planet
The distinguished medical journal The Lancet has issued not one but two apocalyptic warnings about our food in under a month. One of its special commissions reported earlier this month that civilisation itself was at risk from the effects of the current food system on both human health and the E ...
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#1195982019-01-25
How to Eat to Save the World
With the global population set to reach ten billion by 2050, the challenge of feeding the world in a healthy and sustainable way will only deepen. Meeting that challenge will require major, long-term systemic changes.
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#1195622019-01-24
Canada’s New Food Guide Is A Win For Health, Animals And The Planet
After years of research analysis, stakeholder and public consultation, and message testing, Health Canada has published an updated version of Canada's Food Guide.
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#1195082019-01-18
Food in the Anthropocene
More than 800 million people still live in hunger, and many of us now eat more unhealthy than ever. Global food production remains the largest pressure caused by humans on the planet, threatening local ecosystems and the stability of the Earth system itself.
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#1194292019-01-16
The diet to save lives, the planet and feed us all?
A diet has been developed that promises to save lives, feed 10 billion people and all without causing catastrophic damage to the planet. Scientists have been trying to figure out how we are going to feed billions more people in the decades to come.