<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" >

	<channel>
		<title>Conservation news</title>
		<atom:link href="https://news.mongabay.com/feed/?topic=malaria&#038;type=post" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
		<link>https://news.mongabay.com/list/malaria/</link>
		<description>Environmental science and conservation news</description>
		<lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2026 02:07:52 +0000</lastBuildDate>
		<language>en-US</language>
		<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
		<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4</generator>

<image>
	<url>https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/05/16160320/cropped-mongabay_icon-32x32.png</url>
	<title>News on Malaria</title>
	<link>https://news.mongabay.com/list/malaria/</link>
	<width>32</width>
	<height>32</height>
</image> 
				<item>
					<title>Malaria outbreak among Indigenous Pirahã linked to forest loss, satellite data find</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/malaria-outbreak-among-indigenous-piraha-linked-to-forest-loss-satellite-data-find/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/malaria-outbreak-among-indigenous-piraha-linked-to-forest-loss-satellite-data-find/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>17 Feb 2026 18:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2026/02/17111402/A_Piraha_family-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=314338</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Health, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Logging, Malaria, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Social Justice, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Tucked into Brazil’s Amazon forest, along the Maici River where recently contacted Pirahã people live, journalists observed a dramatic uptick in forest loss. According to data from Global Forest Watch, the Pirahã Indigenous Territory lost 3,200 hectares (7,900 acres) of tree cover in 2024, roughly the size of more than 6,000 soccer fields, representing the [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Tucked into Brazil’s Amazon forest, along the Maici River where recently contacted Pirahã people live, journalists observed a dramatic uptick in forest loss. According to data from Global Forest Watch, the Pirahã Indigenous Territory lost 3,200 hectares (7,900 acres) of tree cover in 2024, roughly the size of more than 6,000 soccer fields, representing the largest spike of deforestation between 2001 and 2024. But the cause was beyond the usual culprits of deforestation in the Amazon. In fact, national authorities say, it was part of an effort to address issues vulnerable Indigenous communities face following land invasions: food insecurity and the spread of diseases. The recent spike is mostly due to land clearings to improve food security and a health crisis in the affected population, said Daniel Cangussu, coordinator of the Madeira Ethno-Environmental Protection Front (FPE Madeira-Purus), a branch of Funai, Brazil’s Indigenous agency, which specializes in monitoring and protecting isolated and recently contacted people in the southern Amazonas region. Cangussu said via WhatsApp that Funai and the Pirahã people cleared land to plant crops such as cassava for the roughly 800 people who live there. For several decades, the Pirahã Indigenous people have faced a multitude of issues, from illegal loggers and hunters to invasions by outsiders seeking to extract natural resources from their territory in Brazil’s Amazonas state. Wildlife that people would hunt have been scared away, and fish stocks also declined due to the destruction. In recent years, government officials discovered the population was suffering from a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/malaria-outbreak-among-indigenous-piraha-linked-to-forest-loss-satellite-data-find/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/malaria-outbreak-among-indigenous-piraha-linked-to-forest-loss-satellite-data-find/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-314338</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>25-fold surge in malaria at Indonesia gold frontier raises deforestation questions</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/25-fold-surge-in-malaria-at-indonesia-gold-frontier-raises-deforestation-questions/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/25-fold-surge-in-malaria-at-indonesia-gold-frontier-raises-deforestation-questions/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Sep 2024 16:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Zulkifli Mangkau]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/09/16095643/Pohuwato-gold-mine-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=287432</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Gorontalo, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Business, Conservation, Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Forests, Gold Mining, Health, Malaria, Mining, Mosquitoes, Planetary Health, Public Health, and Tropical Forests]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[POHUWATO, Indonesia — Lukman Ahmad managed in the end to drag himself down from the slopes of Mount Pani toward the southern coast of Indonesia’s Pohuwato district. When he staggered back into Botubilotahu village, the 56-year-old was gaunt and reeling. “I’m fine standing, and I can just about walk,” Lukman told Mongabay Indonesia. “But it [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[POHUWATO, Indonesia — Lukman Ahmad managed in the end to drag himself down from the slopes of Mount Pani toward the southern coast of Indonesia’s Pohuwato district. When he staggered back into Botubilotahu village, the 56-year-old was gaunt and reeling. “I’m fine standing, and I can just about walk,” Lukman told Mongabay Indonesia. “But it makes me dizzy.” Alongside his brother, Lukman had planned to spend two weeks on the mountainside sifting through the Botudulanga River and its tributaries for tiny gold nuggets. But when Lukman developed a headache and fever, the brothers feared the worst. “I’ve been mining for 25 years,” he said, “and this was the first time I’ve contracted malaria.” Malaria is always contracted from a parasite smuggled into a person’s bloodstream by a mosquito bite. However, when the infection is brought on by either Plasmodium falciparum or P. vivax, two of five parasites that cause the disease, malaria can escalate dangerously by blocking vessels in the brain, risking neurological damage and death. Official data show that Lukman’s case wasn’t the only one among the gold miners of Pohuwato, in Gorontalo province on the island of Sulawesi. The head of the malaria section at the provincial health department told Mongabay Indonesia that recorded malaria diagnoses surged from 32 cases in 2022 to 815 last year. Around four out of five malaria cases were among gold miners, according to Taufik Lantowa, the Gorontalo malaria health lead. “The rest are farmers, fishermen, and then some are from the general&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/25-fold-surge-in-malaria-at-indonesia-gold-frontier-raises-deforestation-questions/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/25-fold-surge-in-malaria-at-indonesia-gold-frontier-raises-deforestation-questions/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-287432</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>DRC&#8217;s endangered bonobos face another threat to their survival: malaria</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/drcs-endangered-bonobos-face-another-threat-to-their-survival-malaria/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/drcs-endangered-bonobos-face-another-threat-to-their-survival-malaria/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Mar 2023 08:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/03/21162651/female-bonobo-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=266696</guid>

											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Great Apes]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Atlantic Forest, Central Africa, Congo Basin, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Bonobos, Climate Change, Conservation, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Great Apes, Malaria, Mammals, Mosquitoes, Primates, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Gorillas and chimpanzees, like humans, have long been known to get infected with malaria. But evidence of the parasite&#8217;s effects on bonobos, one of humankind&#8217;s closest genetic relatives, has been scant. Now, new research suggests that bonobos do suffer from malaria infection, and that the disease could threaten the survival of some of the species’ [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Gorillas and chimpanzees, like humans, have long been known to get infected with malaria. But evidence of the parasite&#8217;s effects on bonobos, one of humankind&#8217;s closest genetic relatives, has been scant. Now, new research suggests that bonobos do suffer from malaria infection, and that the disease could threaten the survival of some of the species’ wild populations. An international team of scientists examined bonobo fecal samples collected from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — the only country where bonobos (Pan paniscus) occur — and stored in the laboratory of virologist Beatrice Hahn at the University of Pennsylvania. For ten of the sites included in the study, only one fecal sample out of more than 1,400 analyzed tested positive for evidence of malaria parasites. But among a population living on either side of the Lomami River, a major tributary of the Congo River that runs parallel to it in the central DRC, 38% of bonobos had evidence of malaria parasites in their feces. It wasn’t immediately clear to the researchers what cost the disease has on the Lomami River bonobos, known to the researchers as the TL2 population; telltale signs such as lethargy or reduced reproductive ability are hard to detect in the field. But malaria had evidently exacted a price in the past: the bonobos possessed variants of an immune gene that likely protect them against severe cases of malaria. “There would have to be a cost for natural selection to favor those immune variants,&#8221; said Emily Wroblewski, assistant&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/drcs-endangered-bonobos-face-another-threat-to-their-survival-malaria/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/drcs-endangered-bonobos-face-another-threat-to-their-survival-malaria/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-266696</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/indigenous-youths-lured-by-the-illegal-mines-destroying-their-amazon-homeland/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/indigenous-youths-lured-by-the-illegal-mines-destroying-their-amazon-homeland/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Nov 2022 16:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jean-Mathieu AlbertiniVictor Raison]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/11/30152659/yanomami_territory_DSC_5850-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=263079</guid>

											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Artisanal Mining, Global Commodities, and Land rights and extractives]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conflict, Conservation, COVID-19, Crime, Culture, Drinking Water, Environment, Fish, Gold Mining, Human Rights, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Malaria, Mercury, Mining, Pollution, Rainforests, Social Conflict, Water, and Water Pollution]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[This story was produced with the funding support of the Rainforest Journalism Investigations Network (RIN) of the Pulitzer Center. WAIKAS, Brazil — From up above, long, massive, yellowish stains tear apart the green blanket of the Amazon. In the northern part of the Yanomami Indigenous Territory near Brazil’s border with Venezuela, these illegal gold mines, known [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[This story was produced with the funding support of the Rainforest Journalism Investigations Network (RIN) of the Pulitzer Center. WAIKAS, Brazil — From up above, long, massive, yellowish stains tear apart the green blanket of the Amazon. In the northern part of the Yanomami Indigenous Territory near Brazil’s border with Venezuela, these illegal gold mines, known locally as garimpos, blanket the banks of the Uraricoera River. The pilot flies his Cessna aircraft low but doesn’t get too close. He fears the armed garimpeiros, or gold diggers, on the ground as much as the other small planes swooping through the tree canopy to avoid the police radars and supply the mining camps. On the ground, the Indigenous village of Waikas is in sight. This is home to the Yek&#8217;wana, one of the eight ethnic groups who live in this territory the size of Portugal. &#8220;Illegal mining, the garimpo, has destroyed everything. Our river has become muddy and contaminated. We can&#8217;t fish anymore, and the animals have fled far away from the noise of the [mining] generators and machines,&#8221; says Julio Yek&#8217;wana, one of the community&#8217;s leaders in Brazil’s Roraima state. There are currently around 20,000 illegal miners in the Indigenous territory, according to the Federal Public Ministry. Deep inside the forest, the boat traffic carrying men and supplies to the garimpos is relentless. The entire structure of Julio’s society has been shaken to its foundation, he tells Mongabay. Illegal mining and the fortunes promised by gold miners is swaying Indigenous youth in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/indigenous-youths-lured-by-the-illegal-mines-destroying-their-amazon-homeland/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/indigenous-youths-lured-by-the-illegal-mines-destroying-their-amazon-homeland/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-263079</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/at-30-brazils-yanomami-reserve-is-beset-by-mining-malaria-and-mercury/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/at-30-brazils-yanomami-reserve-is-beset-by-mining-malaria-and-mercury/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Jun 2022 13:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Peter Speetjens]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/06/09233120/Haverkamp-header-768x508.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=257006</guid>

											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Gold Mining, Governance, Health, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Malaria, Mercury, Mining, NGOs, Poisoning, Politics, Pollution, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Water Pollution]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Thirty years ago, Brazil issued a decree officially recognizing the ancestral land of the Yanomami people as an Indigenous territory. The new designation made the area, located deep in the Amazon, on the border with Venezuela, a protected land: it can’t be sold or exploited and may only serve as the source of livelihood for [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Thirty years ago, Brazil issued a decree officially recognizing the ancestral land of the Yanomami people as an Indigenous territory. The new designation made the area, located deep in the Amazon, on the border with Venezuela, a protected land: it can’t be sold or exploited and may only serve as the source of livelihood for the 27,000 Indigenous Yanomami living in more than 350 villages spread across the rainforest. Indigenous territories in Brazil have long been a stronghold against deforestation. But there was little to celebrate for the Yanomami on May 25, the 30th anniversary of their territory’s official recognition. That’s because this reserve, an area the size of former colonial power Portugal and located in the shadow of Pico da Neblina, Brazil’s highest mountain, has witnessed a massive invasion of illegal gold miners, known as garimpeiros, in recent years. The area inside the reserve that’s been destroyed by mining activities increased from 1,200 hectares (2,965 acres) at the end of 2018 to 3,272 hectares (8,085 acres) at the end of last year, according to the report “Yanomami Under Attack,” from the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), an NGO that advocates for environmental diversity and the rights of Indigenous people. The report describes how some 20,000 illegal miners have penetrated deep into the Yanomami reserve, which straddles the border region of the states of Roraima and Amazonas, by plane and boat. Their activities are described as “artisanal,” yet they work with excavators, bulldozers and dredgers that cost a small fortune. In the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/at-30-brazils-yanomami-reserve-is-beset-by-mining-malaria-and-mercury/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/at-30-brazils-yanomami-reserve-is-beset-by-mining-malaria-and-mercury/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-257006</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Oil palm plantations a ‘threat to global health,’ says study on outbreaks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/oil-palm-plantations-a-threat-to-global-health-says-study-on-outbreaks/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/oil-palm-plantations-a-threat-to-global-health-says-study-on-outbreaks/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>28 May 2021 06:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawhare]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/05/28055436/aceh_0789-768x512.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=243120</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Brazil, Global, and Indonesia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[COVID-19, Deforestation, Diseases, Malaria, Palm Oil, Pandemics, Plantations, Reforestation, Research, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic has raised plenty of questions about whether the planet&#8217;s declining health is what ails humans. The answer is yes, and it’s not a metaphorical response. Distorting the blue planet&#8217;s green cover, hollowing out dense forests and tacking tree plantations at will fuels the rise of diseases, a growing body of research shows. [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic has raised plenty of questions about whether the planet&#8217;s declining health is what ails humans. The answer is yes, and it’s not a metaphorical response. Distorting the blue planet&#8217;s green cover, hollowing out dense forests and tacking tree plantations at will fuels the rise of diseases, a growing body of research shows. From Ebola in Africa to malaria outbreaks in Brazil to tick-borne illnesses in the U.S., there is a common thread: fluctuating forest cover, a recent study in Frontiers in Veterinary Science has found. The study authors spotlight an overlooked hazard: oil palm plantations, which they call a &#8220;threat to global health.&#8221; COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease, one where the pathogen emerges in animals and spills over into humans. How the SARS-CoV-2 virus made this jump is still under investigation, but one theory posits that a bat coronavirus entered human populations via an intermediary host. This scenario has raised concerns about the health risks related to wildlife trade and human incursions into natural habitats. The new study examined linkages between deforestation and reforestation with vector-borne and zoonotic diseases between 1990 and 2016. Vector-borne diseases including malaria, dengue and Lyme disease are transmitted by insects like mosquitoes, ticks and fleas. Both vector-borne and zoonotic diseases occurred more frequently in this period, with the former seeing a marked surge. Greener tropical countries like Brazil and Indonesia that report high deforestation rates suffer more frequent vector-borne disease outbreaks, the analysis found. Data from other nations like Peru and Bolivia&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/oil-palm-plantations-a-threat-to-global-health-says-study-on-outbreaks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/oil-palm-plantations-a-threat-to-global-health-says-study-on-outbreaks/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-243120</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>The sponge with the secret recipe: A cancer-fighting chemical</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/the-sponge-with-the-secret-recipe-a-cancer-fighting-chemical/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/the-sponge-with-the-secret-recipe-a-cancer-fighting-chemical/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Jul 2020 00:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Julia John]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/07/07022821/The-cancer-fighting-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=232152</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Aquaculture, Biodiversity, Coastal Ecosystems, Diseases, Economics, Environment, Fisheries, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Health, Invertebrates, Malaria, Medicine, Oceans, Sustainable Development, and Wildlife]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Throughout the waters surrounding Indonesia, a porous tubular creature sits fixed onto coral reefs, its plain appearance hiding a potentially lifesaving secret. Researchers recently found that this sponge produces a substance that could fight cancer and other lethal diseases, and they’ve proposed cultivating it to benefit Indonesia’s marine environment and economy. Acanthostrongylophora ingens yields a [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Throughout the waters surrounding Indonesia, a porous tubular creature sits fixed onto coral reefs, its plain appearance hiding a potentially lifesaving secret. Researchers recently found that this sponge produces a substance that could fight cancer and other lethal diseases, and they’ve proposed cultivating it to benefit Indonesia’s marine environment and economy. Acanthostrongylophora ingens yields a molecule called manzamine A, which counters cervical cancer cells in the lab, according to a paper published in the Journal of Natural Products. Although Pap smears and human papillomavirus vaccines have lowered this type of cancer’s occurrence over the years, it remains the fourth most common in women, with roughly 14,000 diagnoses and more than 4,000 deaths projected in the U.S. alone for 2020 by the American Cancer Society. Manzamine A, which comes from bacteria living in a mutually beneficial relationship with the sponge, has huge implications for stopping this killer because it could restrain aggressive tumors without damaging healthy cells, according to the paper. “It prevents cell replication rather than killing the cell outright, leading to immediate impacts on tumor growth, and then other drugs are useful for killing remaining tumor cells, or they may die on their own,” said Mark Hamann, a professor with the Medical University of South Carolina’s Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences and corresponding author on the study. “Success in humans remains to be seen, but it seems very hopeful. The agent would reduce toxic side effects, so that&#8217;s the greatest utility.” Through the beneficial bacteria it hosts,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/the-sponge-with-the-secret-recipe-a-cancer-fighting-chemical/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/the-sponge-with-the-secret-recipe-a-cancer-fighting-chemical/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-232152</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Malaria surges in deforested parts of the Amazon, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/malaria-deforestation-amazon/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/malaria-deforestation-amazon/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>23 Oct 2019 11:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/10/23042500/Anopheles_stephensi.6050afc8afe147649084270e19625d1b-768x450.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=223705</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conservation, Deforestation, Diseases, Ecology, Economics, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Health, Illegal Logging, Insects, Malaria, Mosquitoes, Planetary Health, Public Health, Rainforests, Research, Slash-and-burn, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Tropical deforestation may spur the transmission of malaria at levels much higher than once thought, according to a recent study. Disease ecologist Andrew MacDonald and his Stanford University colleague Erin Mordecai analyzed more than a decade of data showing the occurrences of malaria in nearly 800 villages, towns and cities across the Brazilian Amazon. They [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Tropical deforestation may spur the transmission of malaria at levels much higher than once thought, according to a recent study. Disease ecologist Andrew MacDonald and his Stanford University colleague Erin Mordecai analyzed more than a decade of data showing the occurrences of malaria in nearly 800 villages, towns and cities across the Brazilian Amazon. They also looked at satellite-tracked deforestation over that same time frame. Understanding the effect each variable has on the other is tricky. That’s because the rise in malaria cases that follows deforestation appears, in turn, to diminish continued deforestation. The disease slows local economies and discourages people from settling in high-malaria areas. A soy field abuts the forest in the Brazilian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. MacDonald and Mordecai found that a 1 percent rise in the incidence of malaria corresponds to a 1.4-percent dip in deforestation. This “feedback” has clouded conclusions from earlier research about deforestation&#8217;s true effect on malaria, MacDonald, now based at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said in an email. To cut through the confusion, the researchers controlled for malaria’s impact on deforestation in their analysis. They then found that previous estimates had been about three times lower than the actual effect of deforestation on malaria. The team calculated that a 10 percent rise in deforestation led to a 3.3 percent average increase in malaria transmission. For 2008, that amounted to another 9,980 cases across the Brazilian Amazon. They reported their results in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/malaria-deforestation-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/malaria-deforestation-amazon/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-223705</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Peru’s first autonomous indigenous gov’t strikes back against deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/perus-first-autonomous-indigenous-govt-strikes-back-against-deforestation/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/perus-first-autonomous-indigenous-govt-strikes-back-against-deforestation/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Apr 2019 17:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Marcio Pimenta]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/04/18163233/Wampis_Amazon_Peru_by_Pimenta-7-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=217613</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Community-based Conservation, Culture, Diseases, Environment, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Green, Illegal Logging, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Logging, Malaria, Mining, Oil Drilling, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[PUERTO GALILEA, Peru — In 2009, special decrees signed by then-president Alan García opened up vast swaths of Peruvian indigenous territory to resource exploitation. Indigenous groups in the northern portion of the country responded by banding together and forming their own autonomous government in 2015 – the first of its kind in Peru – called the [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[PUERTO GALILEA, Peru — In 2009, special decrees signed by then-president Alan García opened up vast swaths of Peruvian indigenous territory to resource exploitation. Indigenous groups in the northern portion of the country responded by banding together and forming their own autonomous government in 2015 – the first of its kind in Peru – called the Wampis Nation. With its newfound authority, the Wampis Nation has been able to respond to and eject illegal deforestation in its territory, and is continuing to organize and strengthen its voice about land use issues in Peru and abroad. When, Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana set off in search of spices and the mythological golden empire El Dorado in 1541, he could not have known that his voyage would take him to the curves of the largest river in the world. Among the dangers faced by expedition members was a confrontation with the Icamiabas, a legendary female-led warrior tribe that dominated the river at the time. Orellana compared the Icamiabas to the Amazons of Greek mythology, and gave the river the name most know it by today. In the intervening centuries, innumerable explorers and industries have plied its waters and forests in the pursuit of knowledge, adventure, and profit. The Wampis know a lot about these visitors. This indigenous group has lived in the Amazon rainforest for centuries, dispersed through more than 13,000 square kilometers (around 5,000 square miles) in the northern Peruvian departments of Amazonas and Loreto. But members say they’re tired of watching&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/perus-first-autonomous-indigenous-govt-strikes-back-against-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/perus-first-autonomous-indigenous-govt-strikes-back-against-deforestation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-217613</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Study links malaria to deforestation in the Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/study-links-deforestation-and-malaria-in-the-amazon/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/study-links-deforestation-and-malaria-in-the-amazon/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>15 May 2018 18:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2018/05/15181624/Anopheles_stephensi-768x512.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=206742</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, and South America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Forests, Habitat Degradation, Insects, Invertebrates, Logging, Malaria, Mosquitoes, Rainforests, Research, Trees, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
											<grant>
							<![CDATA[G-1710-55576]]>
						</grant>
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Scientists have long suspected a relationship between deforestation and some infectious diseases. For instance, the 2014 Ebola crisis has been linked to logging that may have put workers and their families in close contact with infected bats. For malaria – one of the leading causes of death in tropical regions – there has been some [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Scientists have long suspected a relationship between deforestation and some infectious diseases. For instance, the 2014 Ebola crisis has been linked to logging that may have put workers and their families in close contact with infected bats. For malaria – one of the leading causes of death in tropical regions – there has been some evidence that the mosquitos that transmit it (called “vectors”) breed more readily in places where forest has been cleared. Now, a study published recently in Nature’s open-access journal Scientific Reports, adds to the hypothesis that deforestation aids the spread of malaria in the Amazon. For their study, researchers at institutions in Brazil and the U.S. attempted to find patterns between deforestation and malaria infection in nine states in the Brazilian Amazon. They looked at patches of rainforest that had been deforested or degraded (collectively termed “impacted” in the study), breaking them down into different size categories. They then compared these deforestation patches to local rates of malaria infection recorded between 2009 and 2015. Charcoal is produced by slowly burning wood to remove its water content. The study states: &#8220;According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)19, the inclusion of forestry products in the commercial exploitation of natural resources in 2015 represented an increase of approximately USD$ 1.5 billion in the gross value of Brazilian commodities. Commercial forest products included approximately 26 million tons of firewood, 12 million tons of logs and 331 thousand tons of wood charcoal.&#8221; Photo courtesy of Leonardo&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/study-links-deforestation-and-malaria-in-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/study-links-deforestation-and-malaria-in-the-amazon/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-206742</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Fishing with insecticide-laced mosquito nets is a global phenomenon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/fishing-with-insecticide-laced-mosquito-nets-is-a-global-phenomenon/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/fishing-with-insecticide-laced-mosquito-nets-is-a-global-phenomenon/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>06 Feb 2018 13:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Benjamin Graham]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2018/02/06134000/BGraham_MosquitoNet_BangladeshChittagong-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=203552</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, East Africa, East Timor, Global, Mozambique, and Southeast Asia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Developing Countries, Development, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Malaria, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, Public Health, Research, and Wildlife]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
											<grant>
							<![CDATA[CBO2017]]>
						</grant>
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Fishermen in the Dili district of Timor-Leste have found an extra perk of the insecticide added to their mosquito bed nets: the chemicals act as a Taser for shrimp. The bed nets are supposed to ward off malaria, but, with a few strong branches and some twine, it’s easy to refashion them into fishing nets [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Fishermen in the Dili district of Timor-Leste have found an extra perk of the insecticide added to their mosquito bed nets: the chemicals act as a Taser for shrimp. The bed nets are supposed to ward off malaria, but, with a few strong branches and some twine, it’s easy to refashion them into fishing nets that immobilize small shrimp or fish with toxins and ensnare them in the mesh. The fishermen of Dili aren’t the only ones to come up with this idea, either. People in developing countries around the world are repurposing mosquito nets to catch fish, according to a new study, and the practice could have significant environmental and socioeconomic implications. In nearby Papua New Guinea, study participants reported Chinese traders giving mosquito nets to fishermen to catch seahorses, a valuable ingredient in Chinese traditional medicine. An ocean away, on the shallow waters of Lake Alaotra, Madagascar’s largest freshwater body, people use their bed nets to catch juvenile fish. A juvenile trevally caught in a mosquito net in coastal Mozambique. Trevally are a group of species that are commercially important in the region. Photo by Rebecca Short. None of this was too surprising to Rebecca Short, a researcher with the Zoological Society of London and lead author of the new study. Short first witnessed the practice in a beach town in Mozambique, where she watched two women use mosquito nets to scoop small sea creatures out of the surf. Later during the trip, Short realized just how widespread&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/fishing-with-insecticide-laced-mosquito-nets-is-a-global-phenomenon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/fishing-with-insecticide-laced-mosquito-nets-is-a-global-phenomenon/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-203552</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Farming and forest loss: study exposes malaria’s best friends</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/farming-and-forest-loss-study-exposes-malarias-best-friends/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/farming-and-forest-loss-study-exposes-malarias-best-friends/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Oct 2017 05:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jack Elliot Marley]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Maria Angeles Salazar]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2017/10/16053245/riauheader-768x512.png" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=200029</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Forest Loss, Forests, Malaria, and Research]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[A new study exposes the role of deforestation in amplifying malaria transmission, finding that forest loss and malaria is linked worldwide and not just a local phenomenon. The research, published in Environmental Science, builds on prior evidence that has linked deforestation to an increase in habitat availability for mosquitoes in several malaria-endemic countries throughout the [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[A new study exposes the role of deforestation in amplifying malaria transmission, finding that forest loss and malaria is linked worldwide and not just a local phenomenon. The research, published in Environmental Science, builds on prior evidence that has linked deforestation to an increase in habitat availability for mosquitoes in several malaria-endemic countries throughout the tropics. Despite assurances by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that malaria incidence has declined by 60 percent globally in the last 15 years, the disease still claimed around 450,000 lives in 2015 alone – one of the largest causes of death in the developing world and an ongoing threat to the health of half of the world’s population. Meanwhile, numbers from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) indicate nearly 130 million hectares of forest have been lost globally since 1990 – an area about the size of South Africa. “There was a lack of research on whether [the connection between deforestation and malaria] was a general trend or whether these findings were unique to certain settings, influenced by nuances of local ecology,” said Kelly Austin of Lehigh University, a lead researcher of the study. “I was interested in seeing if the relationship between deforestation and malaria could be generalised across nations or regions.” Using a research technique that maps complex relationships between ecological and social outcomes known as structural equation modelling, Austin and her team assessed the connection between forest loss and malaria prevalence across 67 countries. The first study of its kind to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/farming-and-forest-loss-study-exposes-malarias-best-friends/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/farming-and-forest-loss-study-exposes-malarias-best-friends/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-200029</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Focus on breeding sites and biodiversity to control Zika, says leading entomologist</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/focus-on-breeding-sites-and-biodiversity-to-control-zika-says-leading-epidemiologist/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/focus-on-breeding-sites-and-biodiversity-to-control-zika-says-leading-epidemiologist/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>15 Feb 2016 17:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Catharine Watson]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2016/02/02174948/24778502225_bd8e19d1f9_k-495x330.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Birds, Diseases, Environment, Fish, Insects, Invertebrates, Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Pesticides]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Sitting on his verandah in Laikipia, northern Kenya, Dr. Dino Martins, 38, a Kenyan entomologist with experience with malaria, tick fever, liverfluke and other vector-borne diseases, talks about the need to create healthy landscapes that are rich in biodiversity and clean of plastic. This, rather than widespread spraying of pesticides, is the key to controlling [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Sitting on his verandah in Laikipia, northern Kenya, Dr. Dino Martins, 38, a Kenyan entomologist with experience with malaria, tick fever, liverfluke and other vector-borne diseases, talks about the need to create healthy landscapes that are rich in biodiversity and clean of plastic. This, rather than widespread spraying of pesticides, is the key to controlling mosquito-borne diseases like malaria and Zika virus, just declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization, according to Dr. Martins. When present in healthy numbers, beneficial species such as bats, birds and geckos will consume vast quantities of adult mosquitoes, while birds, fish, dragonfly nymphs and diving beetles devour the larvae. People are working on solutions. For the last three years, for instance, a project in El Salvador, spurred by the threat of dengue fever, has had some success reducing mosquitoes by placing fish in water tanks in homes. But much more will be needed to shift global thinking towards more ecological vector control. Pesticides are not the solution Recently, Bill Gates and the UK government pledged $4 billion for new insecticides against malaria, largely for new insecticides. “This investment in malaria is fantastic,” says Dr. Martins. “Without foundations and governments, we would be facing a far greater epidemic. But the fact is that we are only able to knock malaria back to a certain level and then it either resurges or changes its biology.” Pesticides alone are not the solution, Dr. Martins added. “With mosquitoes, and this applies to Zika, chemicals are just&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/focus-on-breeding-sites-and-biodiversity-to-control-zika-says-leading-epidemiologist/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/focus-on-breeding-sites-and-biodiversity-to-control-zika-says-leading-epidemiologist/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-179255</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Human infections by &#8216;monkey malaria&#8217; increasing as forests disappear</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/human-infections-by-monkey-malaria-increasing-as-forests-disappear/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/human-infections-by-monkey-malaria-increasing-as-forests-disappear/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Nov 2014 02:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Loren Bell]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2014/11/human-infections-by-monkey-malaria-increasing-as-forests-disappear/</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, and Vietnam]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Green, Malaria, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Infant macaque in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler Sixty-eight percent of malaria hospitalizations in Malaysia last year were caused by a once-rare strain of the disease traditionally limited to macaque monkeys. However, as deforestation has put humans and wild animals in closer proximity, Plasmodium knowlesi infections and deaths have increased rapidly. The strain [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Infant macaque in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler Sixty-eight percent of malaria hospitalizations in Malaysia last year were caused by a once-rare strain of the disease traditionally limited to macaque monkeys. However, as deforestation has put humans and wild animals in closer proximity, Plasmodium knowlesi infections and deaths have increased rapidly. The strain is now responsible for three times the severe malaria infections in Malaysian Borneo than P. falciparum—the world&#8217;s deadliest form of the parasite. &#8220;This is a form of malaria that was once rarely seen in people, but today, in some remote areas of the country, all of the indigenous malaria cases we are seeing are caused by the P. knowlesi parasite,&#8221; said Balbir Singh, director of the Malaria Research Center at the University of Malaysia in Sarawak. He presented the research last week at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting in New Orleans. As shrinking forests put host primates into more frequent contact with humans, the opportunities for transmission between species increases. Malaysia&#8217;s deforestation rate is consistently among the highest in the world, which puts its population at increased risk. Young macaque in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler The spread is further facilitated by the fact that the host mosquito bites during the day, outdoors, rendering traditional prophylactic measures—such as using mosquito nets while sleeping—ineffective. &#8220;If the number of cases continue to increase,&#8221; Singh said, &#8220;human-to-human transmission by mosquitoes becomes possible. In fact, this may already have happened, which would&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/human-infections-by-monkey-malaria-increasing-as-forests-disappear/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/human-infections-by-monkey-malaria-increasing-as-forests-disappear/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24491</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>From theory to deadly reality: malaria moving upslope due to global warming</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/from-theory-to-deadly-reality-malaria-moving-upslope-due-to-global-warming/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/from-theory-to-deadly-reality-malaria-moving-upslope-due-to-global-warming/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>06 Mar 2014 19:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2014/03/from-theory-to-deadly-reality-malaria-moving-upslope-due-to-global-warming/</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Colombia, East Africa, Ethiopia, and South America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Science, Diseases, Environment, Global Warming, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, Malaria, and Mountains]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Malaria is a global scourge: despite centuries of efforts to combat the mosquito-borne disease, it still kills between 660,000 to 1.2 million people a year, according to World Health Organization data from 2010. Astoundingly, experts estimate that around 300 million people are infected with the disease every year or about 4 percent of the world&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Malaria is a global scourge: despite centuries of efforts to combat the mosquito-borne disease, it still kills between 660,000 to 1.2 million people a year, according to World Health Organization data from 2010. Astoundingly, experts estimate that around 300 million people are infected with the disease every year or about 4 percent of the world&#8217;s total population. And these stats may only get worse. For years scientists have vigorously debated whether or not malaria will expand as global warming worsens, but a new study in Science lays down the first hard evidence. &#8220;We saw an upward expansion of malaria cases to higher altitudes in warmer years, which is a clear signal of a response by highland malaria to changes in climate,&#8221; said co-author Mercedes Pascual with the University of Michigan. The researchers looked at malaria prevalence in two highland regions in Ethiopia and Colombia over more than a decade. In the past, tropical highlands have been largely safe from malaria outbreaks because of mosquitoes&#8217; inability to handle the cooler climate. &#8220;Colder temperatures at higher altitude in these tropical latitudes slow down and even halt the development of the parasite inside the mosquito vector, decrease the rate of reproduction, and reduce the biting rate of the vector, minimizing, if not preventing, transmission,&#8221; the scientists write in the paper released today. However, during abnormally warm years&#8212;the number of which are rising due to climate change&#8212;the researchers found that malarial mosquitoes moved into these normally inhospitable, and unprepared, regions. An Anopheles gambiae mosquito,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/from-theory-to-deadly-reality-malaria-moving-upslope-due-to-global-warming/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/from-theory-to-deadly-reality-malaria-moving-upslope-due-to-global-warming/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25586</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Hope rises as new malaria vaccine shows promise</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/08/hope-rises-as-new-malaria-vaccine-shows-promise/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/08/hope-rises-as-new-malaria-vaccine-shows-promise/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>12 Aug 2013 22:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2013/08/hope-rises-as-new-malaria-vaccine-shows-promise/</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Tropics]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Development, Diseases, Environment, Green, Health, Insects, Invertebrates, Malaria, Medicine, Mosquitoes, and Poverty]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Last week U.S. scientists with the biotech company, Sanaria, announced a possible breakthrough on an experimental malaria vaccine: an early trial led to a success rate of 80 percent for the two highest doses. Malaria remains one of the world&#8217;s worst scourges. In 2010, the World Health Organization reported 219 million documented cases of malaria [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Last week U.S. scientists with the biotech company, Sanaria, announced a possible breakthrough on an experimental malaria vaccine: an early trial led to a success rate of 80 percent for the two highest doses. Malaria remains one of the world&#8217;s worst scourges. In 2010, the World Health Organization reported 219 million documented cases of malaria (millions more likely went undocumented) and estimated that between 660,000 and 1.2 million died of the disease, mostly children in Africa, that year alone. Mortality is not the only impact of the disease, however: experts have long noted circular links between malaria, poverty, and stalled development. The new vaccine, known as PfSPZ, was created by using live malaria parasites (Plasmodium falciparum) that have been weakened by radiation. Although mosquitoes carry malaria, it&#8217;s actually the parasites inside the mosquitoes that cause the disease. Scientists have long known that repeated exposure to malaria could eventually lead to immunity, however the exposure threshold is extremely high. Experts estimate that one would need to be bit by 1,000 parasite-carrying mosquitoes in order to develop immunity. Sanaria worked with 57 volunteers on the trial, known of whom had previously contracted malaria. For those given four injections of the new vaccine, two-thirds became immune. However, for all of those given five doses achieved immunity. Still, the trial was small: only nine volunteers were given four doses and only six volunteers, five doses. &#8220;They are clearly very early stage trials in small numbers of volunteers, but without question we are extremely encouraged&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/08/hope-rises-as-new-malaria-vaccine-shows-promise/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/08/hope-rises-as-new-malaria-vaccine-shows-promise/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-26544</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Gold mine approved in French Guiana&#8217;s only national park</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/01/gold-mine-approved-in-french-guianas-only-national-park/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/01/gold-mine-approved-in-french-guianas-only-national-park/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>15 Jan 2013 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2013/01/gold-mine-approved-in-french-guianas-only-national-park/</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Europe, France, French Guiana, and South America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Diseases, Ecotourism, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Gold Mining, Governance, Green, Malaria, Mining, Parks, Pollution, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Rivers, and Tropical Forests]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Limonade River in French Guiana. The French government has approved a new gold mine near the river, which locals depend on. Photo by: Sébastien Brosse. Tensions have risen in the small Amazonian community of Saül in French Guiana after locals discovered that the French government approved a large-scale gold mining operation near their town&#8212;and inside [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Limonade River in French Guiana. The French government has approved a new gold mine near the river, which locals depend on. Photo by: Sébastien Brosse. Tensions have risen in the small Amazonian community of Saül in French Guiana after locals discovered that the French government approved a large-scale gold mining operation near their town&#8212;and inside French Guiana&#8217;s only national park&#8212;against their wishes. Run by mining company, Rexma, locals and scientists both fear that the mine would lead to deforestation, water pollution, and a loss in biodiversity for a community dependent on the forest and ecotourism. The gold mine isn&#8217;t necessarily illegal despite occurring inside the Guiana Amazonian Park. Tropical ecologist Sébastien Brosse, who has long worked in the region, says that a portion of the park is open to such activities. &#8220;[Gold mining company] Rexma asked for a permit in the &#8216;free adhesion&#8217; zone of the national park where industrial activities are not systematically excluded,&#8221; he explained to mongabay.com. However, he adds that such industrial projects must be &#8220;submitted to the agreement of the national park and of the local population.&#8221; Here the reaction has been clear. &#8220;Since the beginning, both refused this mining project,&#8221; Brosse says, who has studied the negative impact of gold mining on local fish and algae. A fish (Charax pauciradiatus) from Limonade River. Photo by: Sébastien Brosse. Rexma&#8217;s proposal was approved by the French government&#8217;s minister of Production Recovery, Arnaud Montebourg, last year. While the project was initially pushed forward under the past administration, the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/01/gold-mine-approved-in-french-guianas-only-national-park/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/01/gold-mine-approved-in-french-guianas-only-national-park/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29753</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Cell phones help decipher malaria transmission in Kenya</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/cell-phones-help-decipher-malaria-transmission-in-kenya/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/cell-phones-help-decipher-malaria-transmission-in-kenya/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Nov 2012 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rina Shaikh-lesko]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2012/11/cell-phones-help-decipher-malaria-transmission-in-kenya/</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Diseases, Environment, Green, Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Technology]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[These maps represent how people and parasites moved in this study. The red areas represent areas with more movement out of them; blue represents areas with more movement to them; yellow represents areas with equal movement in and out. The map of Kenya on the left depicts human movement, with equal travel to and from [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[These maps represent how people and parasites moved in this study. The red areas represent areas with more movement out of them; blue represents areas with more movement to them; yellow represents areas with equal movement in and out. The map of Kenya on the left depicts human movement, with equal travel to and from several areas. On the right, mosquito parasite movement clearly flows out of the Lake Victoria region (large red patch) and into the Nairobi area (large blue patch). Image courtesy of Caroline Buckee, Harvard University. Malaria parasites can stow away silently in a person’s bloodstream. Without any symptoms to betray them, their human host can unwittingly transport the parasites hundreds or thousands of miles. Tracking them has been nearly impossible, especially in poor countries. Now, researchers have harnessed a new tool: the burgeoning number of cell phone users in Africa, which help trace how malaria spreads. A team led by Amy Wesolowski of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh found that although travelers moved frequently among cities, only some of them were likely to bring malaria along for the ride. The scientists reported their findings Oct. 12 in Science. The researchers tracked anonymous data from 15 million mobile phone users in Kenya between June 2008 and June 2009. They overlaid the daily movements of subscribers onto detailed maps of known cases of malaria. This yielded estimates of how far and how often the human travelers spread the parasites. Before this, it was difficult to track how the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/cell-phones-help-decipher-malaria-transmission-in-kenya/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/cell-phones-help-decipher-malaria-transmission-in-kenya/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30015</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Aloha, and welcome to the planet&#8217;s extinction capital</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/aloha-and-welcome-to-the-planets-extinction-capital/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/aloha-and-welcome-to-the-planets-extinction-capital/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>07 Nov 2011 19:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mark Szotek]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2011/11/aloha-and-welcome-to-the-planets-extinction-capital/</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Hawaii and United States]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Ex-situ Conservation, Extinction, Green, In-situ Conservation, Interviews, Invasive Species, Malaria, and Wildlife]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Hawaii evokes images of a tropical paradise where fragrant flowers, vivid colors, exotic plants, birds, and fish abound. Unfortunately, much of Hawaii&#8217;s original native flora and fauna has disappeared since the arrival of Europeans in the 18th Century. Hawaii now has the dubious distinction as having become the planet’s extinction capital, having lost more than [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Hawaii evokes images of a tropical paradise where fragrant flowers, vivid colors, exotic plants, birds, and fish abound. Unfortunately, much of Hawaii&#8217;s original native flora and fauna has disappeared since the arrival of Europeans in the 18th Century. Hawaii now has the dubious distinction as having become the planet’s extinction capital, having lost more than 55 endemic species (mostly native forest birds) which account for nearly one third of recorded of bird extinctions since the 1700s. The following is an interview with Alan Lieberman and Richard Switzer of the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research’s Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program. Along with a multi-institutional team, their group is racing to save some of the most critically endangered species on the planet; the remaining native forest birds of Hawaii. Former King of the Hawaiian Forests: The Hawaiian Crow or the &#8216;Alala is extinct in the wild. Photo courtesy of the San Diego Zoo. Mongabay: Tell our readers about the history of the Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program. Alan Lieberman: As the world’s most isolated island chain, the fragile native flora and fauna of Hawaii have long been vulnerable to introduced species and the effects of man. Environmental changes brought by modern man, though, accelerated the damage and by the 1970’s the local extinctions were happening at an alarming rate. Nothing seemed to stop the downward spiral. The State of Hawaii established a captive breeding facility for native Hawaiian birds, but they were not succeeding in their efforts. At that point&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/aloha-and-welcome-to-the-planets-extinction-capital/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/aloha-and-welcome-to-the-planets-extinction-capital/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-31777</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Picture of the day: world&#8217;s scariest species</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/10/picture-of-the-day-worlds-scariest-species/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/10/picture-of-the-day-worlds-scariest-species/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>31 Oct 2011 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2011/10/picture-of-the-day-worlds-scariest-species/</guid>

					
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Environment, Green, Insects, Invertebrates, Malaria, Mosquitoes, Photos, Picture Of The Day, and War]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Mosquito in New Guinea. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. What&#8217;s the world&#8217;s scariest species? Runner-up would likely be the mosquito species that transmit malaria. Nearly a million people die from malaria annually, making up some 2.23 percent of deaths worldwide. Annual cases of malaria are over 200 million. Most of the deaths occur in sub-Saharan [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Mosquito in New Guinea. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. What&#8217;s the world&#8217;s scariest species? Runner-up would likely be the mosquito species that transmit malaria. Nearly a million people die from malaria annually, making up some 2.23 percent of deaths worldwide. Annual cases of malaria are over 200 million. Most of the deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa, though malarial mosquitoes are present throughout the tropics. Yet even as scary as mosquitoes are, they are nothing compared to the world&#8217;s most terrifying species: us. Human wars alone killed more people in the 20th Century than malaria likely did (estimates range from around 160-240 million). That, of course, does not include other human-caused fatalities such as homicide, murder, suicide, and others. We are our own worst enemy it seems. Armed men in Indonesian New Guinea. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Through consumption, people in Europe and the United States have a substantially larger impact than people in the developing world. For more photos of &#8216;scary&#8217; species click here.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/10/picture-of-the-day-worlds-scariest-species/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/10/picture-of-the-day-worlds-scariest-species/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-31807</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Malaria may hurt conservation efforts, aid poachers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/07/malaria-may-hurt-conservation-efforts-aid-poachers/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/07/malaria-may-hurt-conservation-efforts-aid-poachers/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>31 Jul 2011 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2011/07/malaria-may-hurt-conservation-efforts-aid-poachers/</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia and India]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Crime, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Governance, Green, In-situ Conservation, Law Enforcement, Malaria, Parks, Poaching, Protected Areas, Tigers, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildlife Rangers]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Map courtesy of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Scientists predict that malaria could spread further with climate change. In 2009, 781,000 people died of malaria worldwide and nearly a quarter billion people contracted the mosquito-bourne disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). While the impacts of malaria on people&#8212;among the [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Map courtesy of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Scientists predict that malaria could spread further with climate change. In 2009, 781,000 people died of malaria worldwide and nearly a quarter billion people contracted the mosquito-bourne disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). While the impacts of malaria on people&#8212;among the world&#8217;s worst diseases&#8212;have long been researched, a new study in Biological Conservation finds that malaria has a significant indirect impact on protected species. Many species contract various malaria strains, but the study also found that malaria in humans has the potential to leave endangered species unprotected. &#8220;In places where malaria is prevalent, it sickens and even kills some park guards who are attempting to limit wildlife poaching. For instance at Pakke Tiger Reserve in India, our study revealed that 70 percent of 144 park guards contracted malaria over a four-year period,&#8221; Dr. William F. Laurance, an ecologist at James Cook University and co-author of the study, explained to mongabay.com. &#8220;Malaria makes the guards too sick to do their jobs.&#8221; Sick guards mean less protection for Pakke&#8217;s wildlife, such as the Bengal tiger. Located in remote northeastern India, Pakke Tiger Reserve is in the heart of malaria territory. According to the study, five out of a thousand people in the region become sick with malaria annually, more than double India&#8217;s overall rate. Malaria also has an economic impact on Pakke Tiger Reserve: sick staff members eat up limited conservation funds even though India&#8217;s health service is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/07/malaria-may-hurt-conservation-efforts-aid-poachers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/07/malaria-may-hurt-conservation-efforts-aid-poachers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32192</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Epidemic hits Amazonian indigenous group</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/10/epidemic-hits-amazonian-indigenous-group/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/10/epidemic-hits-amazonian-indigenous-group/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>31 Oct 2010 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2010/10/epidemic-hits-amazonian-indigenous-group/</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, South America, and Venezuela]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Gold Mining, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Malaria, Mining, and Rainforests]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[An epidemic, suspected to be malaria, has struck down dozens of people of the Yanomami tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon, reports the Associated Press. Leaders of the three impacted village told health workers that approximately 50 people have died so far, many of them children. &#8220;The number could be lower, but in any case it&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[An epidemic, suspected to be malaria, has struck down dozens of people of the Yanomami tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon, reports the Associated Press. Leaders of the three impacted village told health workers that approximately 50 people have died so far, many of them children. &#8220;The number could be lower, but in any case it&#8217;s an important, alarming number,&#8221; Dr. Carlos Botto, a regional health official told the AP. While malaria is common in the region, such an outbreak is rare. Christina Haverkamp, head of the indigenous-rights organization, Yanomami-Hlife, told the AP that the epidemic may be connected to illegal gold-mining, suggesting that miners have possibly brought the disease to the area. According to Survival International, 1,000 gold miners are currently illegally mining in Yanomami territory. Recent studies have shown that deforestation in the Amazon has increased the likelihood of contracting malaria, since loss of forests has created optimal conditions for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Related articles Losing nature&#8217;s medicine cabinet (10/04/2010) In all the discussions of saving the world&#8217;s biodiversity from extinction, one point is often and surprisingly forgotten: the importance of the world&#8217;s species in providing humankind with a multitude of life-saving medicines so far, as well as the certainty that more vital medications are out there if only we save the unheralded animals and plants that contain cures unknown. Already, species have provided humankind everything from quinine to aspirin, from morphine to numerous cancer and HIV-fighting drugs. &#8220;As the ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin commented, the history of medicine can&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/10/epidemic-hits-amazonian-indigenous-group/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/10/epidemic-hits-amazonian-indigenous-group/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-33427</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Malaria meningkat 50 persen setelah penggundulan hutan di Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/malaria-meningkat-50-persen-setelah-penggundulan-hutan-di-amazon/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/malaria-meningkat-50-persen-setelah-penggundulan-hutan-di-amazon/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Jun 2010 06:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy HanceOleh Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2010/06/malaria-meningkat-50-persen-setelah-penggundulan-hutan-di-amazon</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon and Brazil]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Forests, Green, Malaria, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Sebuah penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penggundulan hutan di Amazon membantu penyebaran penyakit dengan menciptakan lingkungan optimal bagi nyamuk pembawa malaria. Penelitian ini, dipublikasikan online melalui jurnal CDC Munculnya Penyakit Infeksi, menemukan bahwa pembabatan hutan di Amazon Brazil meningkatkan kemunculan malaria hingga hampir 50 persen. &#8220;Tampaknya penggundulan hutan merupakan satu dari faktor ekologis pertama yang dapat memicu [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Sebuah penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penggundulan hutan di Amazon membantu penyebaran penyakit dengan menciptakan lingkungan optimal bagi nyamuk pembawa malaria. Penelitian ini, dipublikasikan online melalui jurnal CDC Munculnya Penyakit Infeksi, menemukan bahwa pembabatan hutan di Amazon Brazil meningkatkan kemunculan malaria hingga hampir 50 persen. &#8220;Tampaknya penggundulan hutan merupakan satu dari faktor ekologis pertama yang dapat memicu wabah malaria,&#8221; ujar Sarah Olson, penulis utama laporan dan cendekia post-doktoral dari Nelson Institute, Pusat Kebersinambungan dan Lingkungan Hidup Dunia dan University of Wisconsin-Madison. Peneliti menyatukan informasi tentang keberadaan malaria di 54 distrik kesehatan Brazil dengan pencitraan satelit dari penggundulan hutan Amazon. &#8220;Lanskap hutan gundul, dengan lebih banyak ruang terbuka dan kolam-kolam air yang terkena cahaya matahari, tampak memberikan habitat ideal untuk nyamuk ini,&#8221; ujar Olson mengenai Anopheles darlingi, karier utama malaria di Amazon. Di daerah hutan gundul, Anopheles darlingi menggantikan nyamuk yang cenderung kurang-malaria yang menyukai lanskap hutan. &#8220;Perubahan sebesar 4 persen di tutupan hutan terhubung dengan peningkatan sebesar 48 persen kemunculan malaria di 54 distrik kesehatan ini,&#8221; jelas Olson. &#8220;Data kesehatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini merupakan kualitas dan resolusi spasial tertinggi. Tidak seperti penelitian sebelumnya, data kami membuat kami bisa melakukan zoom di daerah-daerah di mana masyarakat terbuka terhadap malaria dan mengecualikan daerah-daerah di mana mereka tidak.&#8221; Penelitian ini disesuaikan pada populasi manusia, akses ke pelayanan kesehatan, dan faktor tambahan, meski begitu masih ditemukan perjangkitan malaria selaras dengan penggundulan hutan.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/malaria-meningkat-50-persen-setelah-penggundulan-hutan-di-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/malaria-meningkat-50-persen-setelah-penggundulan-hutan-di-amazon/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-34021</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Malaria increases 50 percent following deforestation in the Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/malaria-increases-50-percent-following-deforestation-in-the-amazon/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/malaria-increases-50-percent-following-deforestation-in-the-amazon/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Jun 2010 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2010/06/malaria-increases-50-percent-following-deforestation-in-the-amazon</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon and Brazil]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Forests, Green, Malaria, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[A new study shows that deforestation in the Amazon helps spread disease by creating an optimal environment for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. The study, published in the online issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, found that clearing forests in the Brazilian Amazon raised incidences of malaria by almost 50 percent. &#8220;It appears that deforestation is [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[A new study shows that deforestation in the Amazon helps spread disease by creating an optimal environment for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. The study, published in the online issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, found that clearing forests in the Brazilian Amazon raised incidences of malaria by almost 50 percent. &#8220;It appears that deforestation is one of the initial ecological factors that can trigger a malaria epidemic,&#8221; says Sarah Olson, the lead author of the new report and a postdoctoral fellow at the Nelson Institute, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Researchers combined information on malaria occurrences in 54 Brazilian health districts with satellite imagery of Amazon deforestation. &#8220;The deforested landscape, with more open spaces and partially sunlit pools of water, appears to provide ideal habitat for this mosquito,&#8221; Olson says of Anopheles darlingi, the primary carrier of malaria in the Amazon. In deforested areas Anopheles darlingi displaces other less-malaria prone mosquitoes that favor forest landscapes. &#8220;A 4 percent change in forest cover was associated with a 48 percent increase in malaria incidence in these 54 health districts,&#8221; explains Olson. &#8220;The health data used in the study is of the highest quality and spatial resolution. Unlike previous studies, our data allowed us to zoom in on areas where people are being exposed to malaria and to exclude areas where they are not being exposed.&#8221; The study adjusted for human population, access to healthcare, and additional factors, yet still found malaria outbreaks closely aligned with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/malaria-increases-50-percent-following-deforestation-in-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/malaria-increases-50-percent-following-deforestation-in-the-amazon/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-34046</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Tropical forest tree is source of new mosquito repellent as effective as DEET</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/02/tropical-forest-tree-is-source-of-new-mosquito-repellent-as-effective-as-deet/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/02/tropical-forest-tree-is-source-of-new-mosquito-repellent-as-effective-as-deet/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 Feb 2009 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2009/02/tropical-forest-tree-is-source-of-new-mosquito-repellent-as-effective-as-deet/</guid>

					
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Botany, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Health, Insects, Malaria, Medicinal Plants, and Rainforests]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2009/02/tropical-forest-tree-is-source-of-new-mosquito-repellent-as-effective-as-deet/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/02/tropical-forest-tree-is-source-of-new-mosquito-repellent-as-effective-as-deet/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-37016</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Global malaria map released &#8211; 35% of humanity at risk</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/02/global-malaria-map-released-35-of-humanity-at-risk/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/02/global-malaria-map-released-35-of-humanity-at-risk/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>25 Feb 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2008/12/global-malaria-map-released-35-of-humanity-at-risk/</guid>

					
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Diseases, Green, Health, and Malaria]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Global malaria map Global malaria map released &#8211; 35% of humanity at risk mongabay.com February 25, 2008 Researchers have developed a spatial distribution map for malaria. The results are published in Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine. The map shows that more than 2.3 billion people, or about 35 percent of the world&#8217;s population, live [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Global malaria map Global malaria map released &#8211; 35% of humanity at risk mongabay.com February 25, 2008 Researchers have developed a spatial distribution map for malaria. The results are published in Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine. The map shows that more than 2.3 billion people, or about 35 percent of the world&#8217;s population, live in areas where there is risk of a deadly form of malaria. Each year 500 million people suffer from malaria and about one million people, mostly children living in sub-Saharan Africa, die from the disease which is spread through bites from Anopheles mosquitoes infected with the Plasmodium falciparum parasite. The map is based on &#8220;data on malaria cases, travel advisories, and surveys in several thousand communities across 87 countries,&#8221; according to a statement from PLoS. The map also incorporates &#8220;information about climatic conditions that affect the parasite&#8217;s life cycle and consequently the likelihood of active transmission. For example, below a certain temperature, infected mosquitoes reach the end of their natural life span before the parasite has had time to develop into a stage that can infect humans, which means that malaria transmission does not occur.&#8221; P. falciparum Malaria Risk Defined by Annual Parasite Incidence (top), Temperature, and Aridity (bottom). Areas were defined as stable (dark-red areas, where PfAPI, 0.1 per thousand pa), unstable (pink areas, where PfAPI , 0.1 per thousand pa), or no risk (light grey). Map from Guerra et al 2008 The researchers say the map will help guide campaigns to control the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/02/global-malaria-map-released-35-of-humanity-at-risk/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/02/global-malaria-map-released-35-of-humanity-at-risk/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-38588</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Stopping malaria using smell</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/stopping-malaria-using-smell/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/stopping-malaria-using-smell/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>31 Aug 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Vanderbilt University]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2008/12/stopping-malaria-using-smell/</guid>

					
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Green, Health, Insects, and Malaria]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Stopping malaria using smell Stopping malaria using smell Vanderbilt University August 31, 2007 Researchers have taken an important first step in developing improved repellants to protect mankind from its deadliest insect parasite: the mosquito By mapping a specialized sensory organ that the malaria mosquito uses to zero in on its human prey, an international team [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Stopping malaria using smell Stopping malaria using smell Vanderbilt University August 31, 2007 Researchers have taken an important first step in developing improved repellants to protect mankind from its deadliest insect parasite: the mosquito By mapping a specialized sensory organ that the malaria mosquito uses to zero in on its human prey, an international team of researchers has taken an important step toward developing new and improved repellants and attractants that can be used to reduce the threat of malaria, generally considered the most prevalent life-threatening disease in the world. The sensory organ is the maxillary palp. It is one of three structures extending from the mosquito&#8217;s head that together provide it with its sense of smell and taste. The other two are the feathery antennae that serve as general-purpose olfactory organs and respond to a wide range of different chemicals and the proboscis that contains sensors designed for close-in odor and taste detection. The detailed map of the maxillary palp, which was published online in the journal Current Biology on Aug. 30, has determined that it contains a unique array of highly specialized receptor cells that detect carbon dioxide and octenol, key chemical signals that the insects use to find human prey. A colored scanning electron microscope image of a female malaria mosquito&#8217;s head shows its impressive array of chemical sensors. The outer, feathery appendates are the antennae. The proboscis is in the middle and is flanked by the maxillary palps. Courtesy of Zwiebel Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Related Genetically&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/stopping-malaria-using-smell/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/stopping-malaria-using-smell/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-39106</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>As wealthy get dengue fever, drug companies more likely to act</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/as-wealthy-get-dengue-fever-drug-companies-more-likely-to-act/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/as-wealthy-get-dengue-fever-drug-companies-more-likely-to-act/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>15 Aug 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2008/12/as-wealthy-get-dengue-fever-drug-companies-more-likely-to-act/</guid>

					
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Diseases, Green, Health, and Malaria]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[As wealthy get dengue fever, drug companies more likely to act As wealthy get dengue fever, drug companies more likely to act mongabay.com August 15, 2007 As dengue fever increasingly becomes a disease of the affluent &#8212; especially in Asia &#8212; drug companies are showing more interest in developing treatment, reports a new article published [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[As wealthy get dengue fever, drug companies more likely to act As wealthy get dengue fever, drug companies more likely to act mongabay.com August 15, 2007 As dengue fever increasingly becomes a disease of the affluent &#8212; especially in Asia &#8212; drug companies are showing more interest in developing treatment, reports a new article published in the journal Nature. Dengue fever, a mosquito-transmitted disease that causes severe fever accompanied by joint and muscle pain, infects at least 50 million people a year in more than 100 countries, mostly in the tropics. But unlike many developing world diseases, dengue affects people at all levels of income. &#8220;This is not a disease of the poverty-stricken, rural farmer,&#8221; Scott Halstead, scientific director of the Seoul-based Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative (PDVI), told Nature. In some developing countries, &#8220;the richer you are, the more likely you are to get dengue.&#8221; Nature reports that cities in southeast Asia are experiencing their worst dengue outbreak in a decade: Singapore has more than 5,000 infections while Indonesia has more than 100,000 (with 1,100 deaths). Dengue-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes thrive in urban habitats, breeding in puddles, planters, and old cars tires. A transgenic mosquito carrying a gene that confers resistance to the malaria parasite. The mosquito can be recognized as transgenic by the green fluorescence of the eye facets. Genetically engineered mosquitoes could help control malaria Globally, governments are spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to reduce the impact of the malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that affects around&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/as-wealthy-get-dengue-fever-drug-companies-more-likely-to-act/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/as-wealthy-get-dengue-fever-drug-companies-more-likely-to-act/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-39034</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Global warming may worsen infectious disease</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/05/global-warming-may-worsen-infectious-disease/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/05/global-warming-may-worsen-infectious-disease/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 May 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2008/12/global-warming-may-worsen-infectious-disease/</guid>

					
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Green, Health, Impact Of Climate Change, and Malaria]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Global warming may worsen infectious disease Global warming may worsen infectious disease mongabay.com May 22, 2007 Outbreaks of infectious disease will likely worsen due to global warming, warn scientists at the 107th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Toronto. &#8220;Environmental changes have always been associated with the appearance of new diseases or [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Global warming may worsen infectious disease Global warming may worsen infectious disease mongabay.com May 22, 2007 Outbreaks of infectious disease will likely worsen due to global warming, warn scientists at the 107th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Toronto. &#8220;Environmental changes have always been associated with the appearance of new diseases or the arrival of old diseases in new places. With more changes, we can expect more surprises,&#8221; said Stephen Morse of Columbia University. &#8220;Diseases carried by insects and ticks are likely to be affected by environmental changes because these creatures are themselves very sensitive to vegetation type, temperature, humidity etc. However, the direction of change &#8212; whether the diseases will increase or decrease &#8212; is much more difficult to predict, because disease transmission involves many factors, some of which will increase and some decrease with environmental change. A combination of historical disease records and present-day ground-based surveillance, remotely sensed (satellite) and other data, and good predictive models is needed to describe the past, explain the present and predict the future of vector-borne infectious diseases,&#8221; added David Rogers of Oxford University. GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF MALARIA. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE CDC. Malaria kills an estimated 700,000-2.7 million people each year, 75% of them African children. In 2002, malaria was the fourth cause of death in children in developing countries, causing 10.7% of all children&#8217;s deaths. RELATED ARTICLES Malaria linked to Amazon deforestation A pair studies in the Amazon rainforest suggest a link between deforestation and an increased risk&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/05/global-warming-may-worsen-infectious-disease/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/05/global-warming-may-worsen-infectious-disease/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-39387</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Genetically engineered mosquitoes fight malaria</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/03/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-fight-malaria/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/03/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-fight-malaria/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Mar 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2008/12/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-fight-malaria/</guid>

					
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Green, Health, and Malaria]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Genetically engineered mosquitoes could help control malaria Genetically engineered mosquitoes could help control malaria mongabay.com March 19, 2007 Globally, governments are spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to reduce the impact of the malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that affects around 400 million people each year and kills one to three million die. Most of [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Genetically engineered mosquitoes could help control malaria Genetically engineered mosquitoes could help control malaria mongabay.com March 19, 2007 Globally, governments are spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to reduce the impact of the malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that affects around 400 million people each year and kills one to three million die. Most of the victims are children in sub-Saharana Africa. A transgenic mosquito (Left) with green fluorescent eyes, and a non-transgenic mosquito (Right), with no eye fluorescence. The transgenic mosquito carries a gene that confers resistant to the malaria parasite. While most of the focus to date has been on developing drugs that boost immunity to malaria or counteract the malaria parasite once it is in the victim&#8217;s bloodstream, scientists have now developed a treatment that focuses on the mosquito itself. The research, described in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), uses a genetically engineered strain of malaria-resistant mosquito to out-compete natural mosquitoes when fed malaria-infected blood. Mauro T. Marrelli, Chaoyang Li, Jason L. Rasgon, and Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena introduced equal numbers of mosquitoes genetically engineered to be resistant to malaria into natural mosquito populations. They found that after nine generations, &#8220;70% of the mosquitoes were transgenic versus 50% at the beginning of the experiment.&#8221; They report that &#8220;this fitness advantage arose because the transgenic mosquitoes had a higher survival rate and laid more eggs,&#8221; according to PNAS. Their results further suggest that &#8220;transgenic and wild-type mosquitoes competed equally well&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/03/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-fight-malaria/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/03/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-fight-malaria/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-39606</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Is climate change worsening malaria?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2006/03/is-climate-change-worsening-malaria/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2006/03/is-climate-change-worsening-malaria/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Mar 2006 15:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[University Of Michigan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2006/03/is-climate-change-worsening-malaria/</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Anthropology, Climate Change, Climate Science, Earth Science, Ecology, Green, Human Migration, Impact Of Climate Change, and Malaria]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Is climate change worsening malaria? Is climate change worsening malaria? University of Michigan March 21, 2006 Could global warming be contributing to the resurgence of malaria in the East African Highlands? A widely-cited study published a few years ago said no, but new research by an international team that includes University of Michigan theoretical ecologist [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Is climate change worsening malaria? Is climate change worsening malaria? University of Michigan March 21, 2006 Could global warming be contributing to the resurgence of malaria in the East African Highlands? A widely-cited study published a few years ago said no, but new research by an international team that includes University of Michigan theoretical ecologist Mercedes Pascual finds that, while other factors such as drug and pesticide resistance, changing land use patterns and human migration also may play roles, climate change cannot be ruled out. &#8220;Our results do not mean that temperature is the only or the main factor driving the increase in malaria, but that it is one of many factors that should be considered,&#8221; Pascual said. The new study is slated to be published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. After being nearly or completely eradicated in many parts of the world, malaria still affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide and has been on the rise in some highland regions and desert fringes. Because the life cycle of the mosquito that transmits malaria and the microorganism that causes the disease are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature, some scientists have speculated that rising average temperatures may be making conditions more favorable for mosquitoes and pathogen development, leading in turn to the surge in malaria cases. But a 2002 study found no significant changes in average temperature in the highlands of East Africa, where malaria has become a serious public health problem,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2006/03/is-climate-change-worsening-malaria/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2006/03/is-climate-change-worsening-malaria/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-61536</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Malaria linked to Amazon deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2006/02/malaria-linked-to-amazon-deforestation/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2006/02/malaria-linked-to-amazon-deforestation/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>02 Feb 2006 15:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
															<enclosure url="" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.mongabaydev.co.uk/2006/02/malaria-linked-to-amazon-deforestation/</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Deforestation, Forests, Green, Health, Malaria, Rainforests, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Malaria linked to Amazon deforestation Malaria linked to Amazon deforestation Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com February 2, 2006 A pair studies in the Amazon rainforest suggest a link between deforestation and an increased risk of malaria. The first study, conducted in the Peruvian Amazon and published in January&#8217;s issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Malaria linked to Amazon deforestation Malaria linked to Amazon deforestation Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com February 2, 2006 A pair studies in the Amazon rainforest suggest a link between deforestation and an increased risk of malaria. The first study, conducted in the Peruvian Amazon and published in January&#8217;s issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, found that malaria epidemics in the region were correlated with deforestation. The later research, released in last week&#8217;s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that forest clearing around settlements in the Brazilian Amazon increases the short-term risk of malaria by creating areas of standing water in which mosquitoes can lay their eggs. Malaria is just one of a number of diseases that have been recently linked to ecosystem modification, while late last year the World Health Organization said that the rise of deadly new diseases such as SARS, Nipah virus and bird flu could be linked to the degradation and destruction of the environment. These studies cumulatively suggest that forest maintenance has important implications for health management in the Amazon and other tropical forest regions. More than 200,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest has disappeared since 1980. The area of forest degraded by logging and fires is even greater. A news release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison announcing the research in Peru appears below. As Amazon&#8217;s tree line recedes, malaria-wielding mosquitoes buzz in University of Wisconsin-Madison release Scientists have long known that chronic deforestation can spawn a jungle of environmental woes.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2006/02/malaria-linked-to-amazon-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2006/02/malaria-linked-to-amazon-deforestation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-61589</doi>				</item>
			</channel>
</rss>