Climate change and emerging pathogens: Toward nature-based solutions
Our planet has experienced several drastic changes in climate during its history. Nonetheless, human activity in the last two hundred years of industrialization has brought about a significant rise in greenhouse gases, which have led to inexorable global warming and climate change, a direct threat t...
| Published in: | Natural Resources Conservation and Research |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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EnPress Publisher LLC
2023
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| Online Access: | https://oa.enpress-publisher.com/index.php/NRCR/article/view/1944 https://doi.org/10.24294/nrcr.v6i1.1944 |
| Summary: | Our planet has experienced several drastic changes in climate during its history. Nonetheless, human activity in the last two hundred years of industrialization has brought about a significant rise in greenhouse gases, which have led to inexorable global warming and climate change, a direct threat to our ecosystem. Global warming is precipitating the thawing of peri-glacial permafrost, which then releases additional greenhouse gasses, which can be toxic to our health, and alter fresh water supplies and crops. Melting permafrost also releases ancient and novel pathogens potentially harmful to human health. This paper outlines certain nature-based solutions that could bring about carbon-neutral energy generation, as well as immune protective interventions. |
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