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At the intersection of climate change and environmental and reproductive justice

"Reproductive justice is the right to reproductive health care, and the right to have children or not, the right to the healthiest possible pregnancy and birth, and the right to raise children in a safe and healthy environment. These rights will be challenged by climate change, including increasing temperatures."

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Cutting forests and disturbing natural habitats increases our risk of wildlife diseases

Natural habitats across the planet that humans have converted to farms, cities or suburbs are much more likely to harbor wildlife that carry parasites or pathogens such as the novel coronavirus than undisturbed areas, according to a new study.

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Humans have altered North America’s ecosystems more than melting glaciers

Recent human activity, including agriculture, has had a greater impact on North America's plants and animals than even the glaciers that retreated more than 10,000 years ago.

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Philip Cafaro: Climate refugees or overpopulation escapees?

A recent New York Times article, "The Great Climate Migration," uses the bogus concept of climate refugees to argue for open borders. No sale.
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Theoretical physicists say 90% chance of societal collapse within several decades

Deforestation and rampant resource use is likely to trigger the 'irreversible collapse' of human civilization unless we rapidly change course.
www.vice.com

When it rains, Texas forgets drought and worsening water scarcity

In Texas, dry years reveal a momentous confrontation as residents encounter the menacing consequence of runaway growth.
www.circleofblue.org

The next coronavirus may already be circulating in bats, study suggests

While the exact origin of the coronavirus remains murky, scientists have been racing to determine how it jumped from animals to humans so they can prevent another pandemic. The next one could just be a matter of time, a study in Nature Microbiology published this week suggests.

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Migratory freshwater fish in peril as report shows population plunge

Migratory freshwater fish are in big trouble. According to a new report, monitored populations of migratory freshwater fish have dropped on average by 76% since 1970, which is a higher rate of decline than among marine and terrestrial species.

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A quarter of Bangladesh is flooded. Millions have lost everything

The country’s latest calamity illustrates a striking inequity of our time: The people least responsible for climate change are among those most hurt by its consequences.
www.nytimes.com

In India's Chennai, river restoration lands hardest on the poor

Efforts to restore the sprawling industrial city's rivers weigh heavily on poor riverside residents, who are being forcibly moved.

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Why a generation is choosing to be child-free

The biggest contribution anyone can make to the climate crisis is not to have children. So why do we still treat parenthood as the default?
www.theguardian.com

WATCH: "The World After Coronavirus"— a conversation with Paul R. Ehrlich

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt across the planet for a long time.

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This unappreciated climate-change risk lurks in many portfolios according to BlackRock

Water stress — when demand for H20 exceeds supply — is an underappreciated investing risk that cuts across regions, asset classes and sectors, the world's largest fund firm BlackRock warns.

www.marketwatch.com

What’s really behind dwindling numbers of woodland caribou?

Wolves often get the blame for killing caribou in Canada’s boreal forests, but the real threat is human activity, new research finds.
therevelator.org

All the people: What happens if humanity's ranks start to shrink?

A study in the Lancet suggests the world's population will peak in 2064. If so, the consequences will be profound,

www.theguardian.com

How mosquitoes evolved to be attracted to humans, and what that means for the future

Mosquitoes' evolution to bite humans is a by-product of their dependency on breeding in areas close to human city life -- that means urbanization in the coming decades could lead to even more human-biting mosquitoes in the future.
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Will coronavirus deaths affect the U.S. population?

The pandemic is disrupting birth, death, and immigration rates, and the U.S. population could reach its lowest growth rate in 100 years.
www.theatlantic.com

Gwynne Dyer: A declining global population means a less crowded and healthier planet

Give it another century of gentle decline, and we could hope for a global population of four or five billion by 2200, which would make the task of dealing with the long-term impacts of climate change a lot easier.

www.thespec.com

Where will everyone go?

ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center, have for the first time modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what we found.
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Enrique Ortiz: Population and consumption - challenges we can win

We are too many in the world, highly concentrated in cities, and related to it, we have grown accustomed to an insatiable thirst for consumption.

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Floods in India, Nepal displace nearly four million people, at least 189 dead

Nearly four million people in India's northeastern state of Assam and neighbouring Nepal have been displaced by heavy flooding from monsoon rains, with dozens missing as deaths rose to at least 189, government officials said on Sunday.
www.reuters.com

What happens when the world's population starts to fall?

This week, the Upside considers the far-reaching implications of a less populated world.

www.theguardian.com

In India, there's water everywhere, and nowhere

A 2,400-mile trek across India reveals the allure of its sacred rivers—and a crisis that threatens a way of life.
www.nationalgeographic.com

Monsoons slam South Asia, displacing millions in Bangladesh and India

Flooding in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar and Nepal has killed scores of people, destroyed homes and structures, drowned entire villages, and forced many to crouch on rooftops hoping for rescue.
www.nytimes.com

World population growth to diminish, spurring geopolitical power shift

The number of people in the world could be 2 billion fewer than UN forecasts by 2100, according to a new study. With declining fertility rates and ageing populations, experts predict a global shift in power dynamics.
www.dw.com

The World Food Prize winner says soil should have rights

Dr. Rattan Lal, the second soil scientist to receive the honor, digs in deep to carbon sequestration, climate change, and the importance of a Clean Soil Act.
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Better food for world's poor could hike climate-changing emissions

To balance the increases, richer countries may need to scale back, flagship UN report suggests.

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