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What’s behind the dengue fever outbreak in South America?

Dengue fever cases in the Americas have tripled over the past year. Why is it spreading so quickly – and what can we do about it?

 
Enfermeras del Servicio Nacional de Salud del Reino Unido en Sierra Leona durante un brote de ébola. Simon Davis, DFID

One Health, one cure

The history of the approach to health that promises to prevent future pandemics

 

How did deforestation lead to the rise of COVID-19?

In conversation with Robert Nasi of CIFOR and Annika Terrana of WWF about the connections between deforestation and COVID-19.

 

What is the effect of a pandemic on the global food supply system?

In conversation with Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, about COVID-19 and the global food supply system.

 
An offshore wind farm in North Wales. Doug Scobie, Flickr

Social distancing tips from the platypus, renewable records and enzymatic scissors

In this bi-weekly digest of climate news: long-term costs of climate change revealed, commodity prices wobble, and animals that practice social distancing.

 

How does destruction of the natural world affect public health systems?

In conversation with Dr. Aaron Bernstein of Harvard Medical School about the known and anticipated connections between climate change and COVID-19.

 

How should COVID-19 be used to re-shape broken global systems?

In conversation with renowned author and MIT lecturer Otto Scharmer on how COVID-19 can affect behavior change and be used to re-shape global systems.

 
Facemasks to protect from Coronavirus. Prachatai, Flickr

Coronavirus and carbon emissions, COP 26’s postponement and Venice’s clear waters

In this news roundup: the connections between coronavirus and carbon emissions, oil prices, the ozone layer and where to get carbon-negative hand sanitizer.

 

At the dawn of COVID-19, how did the climate change sector react to the pandemic?

In conversation with Charlotte Streck, co-founder and director of global think tank Climate Focus on COVID-19's effects on continued climate action.

 

How can biodiversity loss lead to global pandemics?

On World Health Day 2020, a conversation between two zoology experts on the emergence and spread of disease among wildlife in relation to COVID-19.

 
A 3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle, which causes COVID-19. NIH/NIAID

8 reads on how coronavirus could swing the battle against climate change

Coronavirus is causing carbon emissions to fall temporarily, but it could mark the start of longer-term changes needed to avert catastrophic climate change.

 

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