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Dust with a side of disease

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2017 estimates show that particulate matter from desert dust is responsible for up to 600,000 deaths per year [5]. J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2017. Figure 1: Major global dust source areas. Large scale events are typically met with large scale consequences and dust is no exception to this. But what about all those hitch-hiking microbes?

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Application of the “One Health Approach”

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Animal-human connections, “one. health”, and the syndemic approach to prevention. Social Science and Medicine, 68 (6), 991-995. ZkMsAAAAA:W7DTgw5ecSSTHDxj1Akwp8YqPOvLzVpKstoqiyOvtNAspVNPIvg3dxAt2vUQ95Af1lO. HsMUETBU. (6) One Health. 7) Zumla, A., Kaleebu, P., Eusebio, M., Mfinanga, S., Ansumana, R., Alagaili, A.

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Environmental activism in Latin America

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3) Birss Moria (2017) Criminalising environmental activism pages 315-322. (4) Reference list: (1) Steiger Carlos (2006), Modern Beef Production in Brazil and Argentina, Vol. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B. Martha Jr et al (2012) Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil, Vol. 110, pages 173-177. (3)

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Wildfires in California: Our wake up call

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8] What Happens to Wildlife During a Wildfire? National Forest Foundation. 9] Stevens-Ruhmann C., Morgan P. & & Veblen T. Evidence for declining forest resilience. Ecology Letters. 10] Wong-Parodi G.,

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The impact of the Trump administration on the environment

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Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” was repealed in 2017 by Trump’s EPA. Probably Trump’s greatest impact was his executive order to remove the US from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement [4] ; an agreement between 197 countries that aimed to avoid global temperatures going more than 1.5-2 The New York Times`. Tollefson, Jeff. Wolff, Eric.