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20 Apr 2018 |
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Ocean Acidification – Effects on Humans
Ocean acidification will have drastic effects on shelled organisms and on coral reefs, but what about its effects on humans? Many people mistakenly believe that the oceans may be turning to acid, and that it will no longer be safe for humans enter the water. This is not true, even in the most extreme scenarios […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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What Makes Agriculture Vulnerable to Climate Change, and the Mortality Effects of Fruit and Vegetable Scarcity
Gains in food production and increased awareness of global food security are threatened by looming losses due to climate change, according to a study published in The Lancet. Marco Springmann et al. calculate that climate change will lead to a 3.2 percent reduction in global food availability per person by 2050, driven by changes in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Preventive medicine expert advocates a plant-based diet
In a letter to JAMA, the preventive-medicine expert addresses the failure of the newest USDA Dietary Guidelines to articulate the health and climate benefits of a low-meat diet.Eating meat is bad for our health and bad for our planet, according to Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Eating Meat and Climate Change Have Contributed to Viruses Like Zika
Zika, a mosquito-borne virus currently spreading across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, has been declared an international public health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). The virus is suspected to cause a birth defect known as microcephaly, in which babies are born with small heads, a condition which can ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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What’s Food Loss and Waste Got to Do with Sustainable Development? A Lot, Actually.
More than 150 world leaders will meet in New York this weekend to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of global targets intended to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and curb climate change. The SDGs will help set the global development agenda for the next 15 years, focusing attention on the […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Diet and Climate Change: Cooking up a Storm
While epidemics of chronic disease are currently by far the leading causes of death, climate change is considered the greatest public health threat. This video explains how people can eat to combat dietary diseases and greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Big Question: Feast or famine?
The University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment is discovering solutions to Earth’s biggest problems, including the big question of how are we going to feed a growing world without destroying the planet?
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food Waste in the U.S. Is…
The United States wastes a staggering amount of food, resulting in environmental problems, billions in economic costs, and a lost opportunity to help feed the 50 million Americans who are food insecure. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree has now introduced two pieces of legislation to address this program—HR 4184, the Food Recovery ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food Insecurity and Climate Change
These maps, created by WFP and the Met Office, weave together the latest information on climate change and food insecurity to show how the two are linked.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthy and Climate Friendly Food
We care about healthy living in San Luis Obispo County. That is why we are concerned about climate change. Now is the time to come together as a community and talk about how climate change is affecting our well-being. The good news is, many actions that help limit climate change also improve the health of […]