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How the world can prevent emerging infectious diseases and protect food security. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain
How the world can prevent emerging infectious diseases and protect food security
July 23, 2021

According to a new report co-written by Illinois Natural History Survey postdoctoral researcher Valeria Trivellone, climate change, poverty, urbanization, land-use change and the exploitation of wildlife all contribute to the emergence of new infectious diseases, which, in turn, threaten global f

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Moai statues on Easter Island. Credit - CC0 Public Domain
Resilience, not collapse: What the Easter Island myth gets wrong
July 14, 2021

New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core of the Easter Island myth didn't really happen.

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Tropical deforestation has occurred for the production of beef, sugar cane and soybean in the Brazilian Amazon, oil palm in Southeast Asia, and cocoa in Nigeria and Cameroon. Credit - www.phys.org
Nearly a fifth of Earth's surface transformed since 1960
May 14, 2021

Whether it's turning forests into cropland or savannah into pastures, humanity has repurposed land over the last 60 years equivalent in area to Africa and Europe combined, researchers said Tuesday.

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Study examined impacts such as brushtailed possums in Victoria moving 57% further in areas broken up with roads compared with large forests. Credit - Michael Lawrence-Taylor/AFP/Getty Images
Human activity forces animals to move further to survive, study finds
February 4, 2021

Human activity is fundamentally altering the distances the world’s animals need to move to live, hunt and forage, according to a study that examined the impact on more than 160 species across six continents.

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Restoring 30% of the world's ecosystems in priority areas could stave off extinctions and absorb CO2
October 16, 2020

Returning specific ecosystems that have been replaced by farming to their natural state in all continents worldwide would rescue the majority of land-based species of mammals, amphibians and birds under threat of extinction.

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How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses
August 26, 2020

As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity.

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The study also indicates that insects, including bees, are vanishing due to damage to nature. Photograph: Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters
‘Insect apocalypse’ poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn
November 14, 2019

The “unnoticed insect apocalypse” should set alarm bells ringing, according to conservationists, who said that without a halt there will be profound consequences for humans and all life on Earth.

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‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam
May 10, 2019

The U.S. Marine Corps is building a base on Guam that will destroy 400 hectares (1,000 acres) of limestone forest, habitat for numerous endangered species. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

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Global Human Modification map (HM) - Mapping current condition of landscapes
January 18, 2019

The Nature Conservancy in collaboration with Conservation Science Partners recently produced the Global Human Modification map (HM) based on modeling how much (spatial extent) and at what magnitude (intensity) 13 different human activities impact terrestrial lands, ecoregions, and biomes.

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