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Evidence: Will climate change affect spread tropical diseases?
2015-02-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Many tropical diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease and dengue are transmitted to humans via mosquitoes and other carriers known as vectors. These vector-borne diseases continue to have a major impact on human health in the developing world: each year, more than a billion people become infected and around a million people die. In addition, around one in six cases of illness and disability worldwide arise from these diseases. Malaria arguably continues to attract the most attention of all the...
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Climate change hampering world food production
2015-02-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The acceleration climate change and its impact on agricultural production means that profound societal changes will be needed in coming decades to feed the world's growing population, researchers at an annual science conference said. According to scientists, food production will have to be doubled over the next 35 years to feed a global population of nine billion people in 2050, compared with seven billion today. Feeding the world "is going to take some changes in terms of minimizing climate...
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Climate Change Poised Make Infectious Disease Outbreaks More Frequent
2015-02-16 20:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: As the catastrophic Ebola outbreak showed the world recently, the modern age of global air travel has made it far easier for disease to spread. But climate change, which is shuffling habitable zones for pathogen-carrying animals, is poised to make future outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola, H1N1 and TB worse, and more frequent. In an article published Sunday in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, two zoologists studying parasites in drastically different environments--one...
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Climate change leading to emergence of infectious disease
2015-02-16 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Climate change is causing the appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, according to a study. Researchers warn that climate change shifts habitats and could lead much more illness emerging in the future. Zoologist Daniel Brooks, who is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, conducted the study, which has been published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The research argues that as habitats shift as a result of climate change, wildlife, crops,...
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United Kingdom: Real progress climate change needs trust between all political parties
2015-02-16 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: I became UK energy and climate change secretary in February 2012 that makes me the longest serving minister with this portfolio for 25 years. In this time, I have learned one lesson above all else: you can only make real progress on climate change with political leadership and trust between all parties. Thats why the new joint climate change agreement between the leaders of the three major British political parties Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats is so important. This cross-party...
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