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					<title>Sri Lanka intensifies fight against dengue and the mosquitos that cause the infection</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/sri-lanka-intensifies-fight-against-dengue-and-the-mosquitos-that-cause-the-infection/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Jul 2026 05:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Kamanthi Wickramasinghe]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Dilrukshi Handunnetti]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, South Asia, and Sri Lanka]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Diseases, Environment, Governance, Health, Impact Of Climate Change, Insects, and Mosquitoes]]>
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							<![CDATA[DEMATAGODA, Sri Lanka — Niroshan Peters, 54, a resident of Dematagoda, a densely populated suburb in Colombo, has no option but to live and work in an environment frequently polluted due to careless waste disposal. He blames authorities for not having an effective waste management system, which results in people getting exposed to unhygienic environments. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[DEMATAGODA, Sri Lanka — Niroshan Peters, 54, a resident of Dematagoda, a densely populated suburb in Colombo, has no option but to live and work in an environment frequently polluted due to careless waste disposal. He blames authorities for not having an effective waste management system, which results in people getting exposed to unhygienic environments. “Last week, workers from the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) came to fumigate this area but that alone is not enough,” Peters told Mongabay. “Every time there is a surge in dengue they suddenly remember to carry out fogging and launch dengue prevention drives. But during the rest of the year people continue to dump waste in abandoned lands and contribute to a never-ending problem.” As of July 1, Sri Lanka’s National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU) has recorded a total of 56,422 dengue cases and 35 deaths. In 2025, a total of 51,000 cases were reported, indicating an alarming increase in incidence this year. Speaking at a recent briefing, Nalinda Jayatissa, Sri Lanka’s minister of health and media, told Colombo-based journalists that the increasing number of dengue patients could overwhelm hospitals, adding “severe pressure to the healthcare system.” A dominant serotype In Sri Lanka, there are four dengue serotypes — a distinct variation within a species of bacteria or virus — and different serotypes emerge during different peak seasons, said Preshila Samaraweera, consultant community physician at NDCU. However, since 2017, when Sri Lanka experienced one of its major dengue outbreaks resulting in more than 186,000 suspected&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/sri-lanka-intensifies-fight-against-dengue-and-the-mosquitos-that-cause-the-infection/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-322305</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Studies link stronger dengue outbreak in Bangladesh to climate change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/studies-link-stronger-dengue-outbreak-in-bangladesh-to-climate-change/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/studies-link-stronger-dengue-outbreak-in-bangladesh-to-climate-change/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Nov 2024 13:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mohammad Al-Masum Molla]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cities, Climate Change, Diseases, Environment, Extreme Weather, Health, Insects, Lakes, Mosquitoes, Public Health, Rivers, Waste, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[When eight-year-old Samin developed a fever a few days ago, his parents thought it was the seasonal flu. However, in two days, his condition worsened as he began to complain of abdomen pain, fatigue and vomiting. “We saw a drastic change in him. Our once agile child became pale and listless,” said Samin’s father Rahmatullah, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When eight-year-old Samin developed a fever a few days ago, his parents thought it was the seasonal flu. However, in two days, his condition worsened as he began to complain of abdomen pain, fatigue and vomiting. “We saw a drastic change in him. Our once agile child became pale and listless,” said Samin’s father Rahmatullah, from the middle-income dominated and densely populated Mirpur area in Dhaka. Worried and anxious, he took Samin to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, where they found that Samin had contracted dengue and his platelet count had dropped to 40,000 against the healthy count of 150,000 to 400,000 platelets. Samin was admitted to the hospital, but his condition continued to deteriorate as his blood pressure fell, prompting doctors to transfer him to the intensive care unit. Rahmatullah said they were wondering why, despite their best efforts to keep dengue away, Samin caught the disease. They applied sprays, used mosquito nets while sleeping, kept their house clean and drained the potential breeding sources in their home — the usual cautions that authorities have always prescribed to keep the dengue viral carriers, Aedes mosquitoes, away. Samin is among a record 80,000 people who have fallen ill with dengue in Bangladesh this year so far — a surge that scientists say could be fueled by climate change. An influx of patients has overwhelmed the hospitals in Bangladesh, especially its capital — a reminder of the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Aedes aegypti mosquito thrives in rainy, tropical climates&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/studies-link-stronger-dengue-outbreak-in-bangladesh-to-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-290523</doi>				</item>
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					<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>
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					<pubDate>16 Sep 2024 16:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Zulkifli Mangkau]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Gorontalo, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Conservation, Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Forests, Gold Mining, Health, Malaria, Mining, Mosquitoes, Planetary Health, Public Health, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![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;]]]>
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							<![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>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-287432</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In the wake of Bangladesh’s deadliest dengue outbreak, researchers respond</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/in-the-wake-of-bangladeshs-deadliest-dengue-outbreak-researchers-respond/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Aug 2024 12:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hailey Smalley]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Cities, Diseases, Environment, Health, Insects, Lakes, Mosquitoes, Public Health, Rivers, Waste, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Bangladesh, regular cycles of heat and rain have long cultivated dense populations of insects, and, by extension, the diseases they carry. Dengue fever was first confirmed in Bangladesh 60 years ago, but the disease, carried by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, caused unforeseen devastation in 2023. By the end of the year, the death toll reached [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Bangladesh, regular cycles of heat and rain have long cultivated dense populations of insects, and, by extension, the diseases they carry. Dengue fever was first confirmed in Bangladesh 60 years ago, but the disease, carried by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, caused unforeseen devastation in 2023. By the end of the year, the death toll reached more than 1,700, making it the worst outbreak of dengue fever in Bangladesh’s recorded history. One scientific study linked the unprecedented rash of disease to climatic changes that fostered especially ideal breeding conditions for mosquitoes and warned that future epidemics would likely arise as Bangladesh experiences changes to seasonal rain patterns and temperature spikes. Failures of common prevention techniques, due to gained genetic resistance and changes in the disease itself, intensify the threat of future dengue fever outbreaks, as well as other mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya and malaria. Afsana Al Latif, a graduate student and research assistant at the Insect Rearing and Experimental Station (IRES) at Jahangirnagar University, is one of the many people looking for ways to better control mosquito populations. “There are a lot of problems with mosquitoes, but people are not interested in this. It’s a small insect, but many people are dying because of just this mosquito,” Al Latif said. Afsana Al Latif points to a micrograph of a mosquito at IRES. Image by Hailey Smally. IRES is the only research facility in the country that breeds captive mosquitoes for research. Nestled in a dense grove of trees far removed from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/in-the-wake-of-bangladeshs-deadliest-dengue-outbreak-researchers-respond/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-285599</doi>				</item>
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					<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]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Great Apes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Atlantic Forest, Central Africa, Congo Basin, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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											<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]]>
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							<![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;]]]>
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							<![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>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-266696</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In temperate Nepal, climate change paves way for tropical dengue fever</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/in-temperate-nepal-climate-change-paves-way-for-tropical-dengue-fever/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Oct 2022 13:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate Change, Diseases, Drinking Water, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, Mosquitoes, Pandemics, Planetary Health, Public Health, Temperatures, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — Hindus in Nepal marked Tihar this past week, the festival of lights that takes place at the same time as the better-known holy day of Deepavali. But for Richa Sharma, a 38-year-old resident of Kathmandu, there was no celebrating; she was bedridden for the past week. The combination of high fever, body aches [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — Hindus in Nepal marked Tihar this past week, the festival of lights that takes place at the same time as the better-known holy day of Deepavali. But for Richa Sharma, a 38-year-old resident of Kathmandu, there was no celebrating; she was bedridden for the past week. The combination of high fever, body aches and burning eyes left her hardly able to speak, she told Mongabay, “let alone sleep.” As of Oct. 21, Sharma was one of the 43,685 people (and counting) in Nepal who have been diagnosed with dengue fever, transmitted by mosquitoes and also known as breakbone disease, because of the muscle spasms and joint pains that it induces. Nearly three-fifths, or 25,182, of the cases have been reported in the Kathmandu Valley; 52 people have already died due to the disease. “Dengue is everywhere in Kathmandu,” said Rajendra Pokhrel, another city resident. “It’s like COVID-19. Everyone knows at least two, three friends or family members who have been infected by the disease.” Nepal is experiencing its worst dengue outbreak in history, according to the World Health Organization. The last large-scale outbreak of the disease was reported in 2019, when 17,992 cases were recorded nationwide, according to figures from the government’s Epidemiology and Disease Control Division. In 2021, there were just 540 cases. For epidemiologists, policymakers, and affected residents, the outbreak has raised a key question: Why is Nepal, a country at the foot of the Himalayas, currently in the grip of what’s long been considered a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/in-temperate-nepal-climate-change-paves-way-for-tropical-dengue-fever/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-261970</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In harm’s way: Our actions put people and wildlife at risk of disease</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/in-harms-way-our-actions-put-people-and-wildlife-at-risk-of-disease/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Oct 2021 03:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Health, Illegal Trade, Insects, International Trade, Livestock, Mammals, Mosquitoes, Pandemics, Public Health, Research, Science, Solutions, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Trafficking, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Altering Earth’s natural systems not only spreads disease to humans. Ecosystem disruption increasingly puts wild animals at risk of devastating pandemics and threatens endangered species’ survival.]]>
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							<![CDATA[A gaunt, staggering tigress named Galia alerted researchers in the Russian Far East that something was very wrong. She, and soon other wild Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica), wandered through villages and stumbled across roads, dazed, hungry, and boldly unafraid of humans — extremely abnormal behavior for this secretive, wary cat. When tiger expert Dale Miquelle investigated, he linked these mysterious neurological problems to symptoms of canine distemper, a global and highly contagious virus, that the tigers likely acquired by preying on infected feral dogs or viral hosts: martens or wolves. Galia and others died. A female Amur tiger, also known as a Siberian tiger, (Panthera tigris altaica). The species is vulnerable to canine distemper. Leipzig Zoo. Image by Appaloosa via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us that many pathogens are zoonotic, jumping from one species to another. Today, global attention focuses on those that originate in wildlife and mutate to infect humans, livestock and our beloved pets. But many pathogens also leap in the other direction, with humans or domestic animals spreading disease to wildlife, says Steve Osofsky, director of the Cornell Wildlife Health Center in Ithaca, New York. Few people realize that simply bringing humans, cows, pigs, chickens or dogs into — or adjacent to — a wild area can hasten the demise of endangered species. Canine distemper offers just one jarring example: It has substantially increased the odds that the last 500 Amur tigers could disappear forever in the next 50 years. “There’s a surprisingly&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/in-harms-way-our-actions-put-people-and-wildlife-at-risk-of-disease/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As Indonesia fights COVID-19, warmer temperatures drive up dengue cases</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/as-indonesia-fights-covid-19-warmer-temperatures-drive-up-dengue-cases/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/as-indonesia-fights-covid-19-warmer-temperatures-drive-up-dengue-cases/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Apr 2020 11:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Yitno Suprapto]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Jambi, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Diseases, Environment, Forests, Health, Mosquitoes, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAMBI, Indonesia — As Indonesia grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, infections from another animal-borne disease have gone on the rise largely unnoticed and likely driven by climate change, with more cases recorded so far this year than for the coronavirus. Indonesia has reported more than 17,800 cases of dengue fever nationwide, compared to its official [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAMBI, Indonesia — As Indonesia grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, infections from another animal-borne disease have gone on the rise largely unnoticed and likely driven by climate change, with more cases recorded so far this year than for the coronavirus. Indonesia has reported more than 17,800 cases of dengue fever nationwide, compared to its official COVID-19 tally of 5,136 as of April 15. One of the affected areas is Jambi province on the island of Sumatra, where authorities have attributed the rise in cases to environmental factors, including warmer temperatures than usual. More than 700 people were diagnosed with dengue fever between January and March in Jambi, with seven deaths, six of them children. The province recorded 16 deaths from 2,229 cases for the whole of 2019, and three deaths from 831 cases in 2018. Occurring in tropical and subtropical Southeast Asia, the tiger mosquito can spread diseases like dengue fever. Image by NISC. With the number of cases this year on track to surpass those of the past two years, experts say warmer temperatures in Jambi are a likely factor, allowing the mosquitoes that carry the dengue virus to thrive. “The normal spawning period for mosquitoes is 12 days, but because of temperature increase, it can be just seven days,” said Sukmal Fahri, a public health expert from Jambi’s Harapan Ibu Health Institute. This chimes with findings by the World Health Organization that “[c]limate change also may affect transmission, as dengue mosquitoes reproduce more quickly and bite more frequently&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/as-indonesia-fights-covid-19-warmer-temperatures-drive-up-dengue-cases/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-228969</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Rapid deforestation of Brazilian Amazon could bring next pandemic: Experts</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/rapid-deforestation-of-brazilian-amazon-could-bring-next-pandemic-experts/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/rapid-deforestation-of-brazilian-amazon-could-bring-next-pandemic-experts/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>15 Apr 2020 08:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue BranfordThais Borges]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conflict, Conservation, Controversial, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Extinction, Fires, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Mining, Monkeys, Mosquitoes, Pandemics, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Conflict, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, Uncontacted Tribes, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environmental degradation has already triggered disease outbreaks in Brazil. The risk of a new emergent zoonotic disease arising there, like COVID-19, is intensified by Bolsonaro’s forest policies.]]>
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							<![CDATA[President Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters during an April 10 visit to a Brasília neighborhood, TV Globo caught images as the president wiped his nose with his hand, then shook hands with admirers, including an elderly woman wearing a mask to protect herself against the coronavirus. Image courtesy of TV Globo. Since it arrived in Brazil, COVID-19 has divided the nation. One side calls for strict social isolation measures to contain the virus, while the other says that everyone should get back to work now, except for the elderly and most vulnerable. These conflicting views are evident even in the heart of the government. President Jair Bolsonaro in a recent television broadcast declared that hysteria has gripped the country over a disease that he calls “no worse than a mild flu.” His Health Minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, disputes that, telling Brazilians to stay home. Misinformation is rife. Rumors proliferate on social media, particularly regarding the number of deaths, while the government discredits the mainstream press, as it tries to report the rapidly developing pandemic and inform the public. Brazilian Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta. His opposition to President Bolsonaro’s lax views on the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic could put the minister’s job at risk. Image courtesy of Agência Brasil. This scenario is not new. Since taking office in January 2019, Bolsonaro and his administration have smeared scientists trying to alert the population over the risks of global warming, or critical of the undermining of federal environmental regulations and agencies. In&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/rapid-deforestation-of-brazilian-amazon-could-bring-next-pandemic-experts/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Cambodian &#8220;bat man&#8221; bolsters the fight against dengue fever</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/cambodian-bat-man-bolsters-the-fight-against-dengue-fever/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/cambodian-bat-man-bolsters-the-fight-against-dengue-fever/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Dec 2019 14:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claire Baker-Munton]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Willie Shubert]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Bats, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Flooding, Forests, Health, Mosquitoes, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Meet Heng Kim Seng, Cambodia&#8217;s bat man. In a few years, he went from rice to riches all because of bats. Under the Khmer Rouge, he hauled human waste to make the rice grow, and now he sells bat feces or &#8220;guano&#8221; as a natural fertilizer, a thriving business that could even save lives. It [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Meet Heng Kim Seng, Cambodia&#8217;s bat man. In a few years, he went from rice to riches all because of bats. Under the Khmer Rouge, he hauled human waste to make the rice grow, and now he sells bat feces or &#8220;guano&#8221; as a natural fertilizer, a thriving business that could even save lives. It all started one night, back in his home village in eastern Pursat province, where he returned after the regime fell. At dusk, Seng watched bats by the thousands streaming out of palm trees and struck upon an idea. “I thought, bats are good animals … their feces make good fertilizer for all types of plants,” the grandfather recalled. “So, I came up with the idea to build artificial roosts by putting palm leaves at the top of the palm trees,” he explained. Seng started &#8220;farming&#8221; bats for their guano in 1982, and he’s never looked back. Now he can sweep up 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of guano from beneath his trees every day, which nets him around $10. Buyers know where Seng lives; he owns a bat signal, a large illuminated bat sign on the front of his house. Farmers come from as far as 500 kilometers (310 miles) away to buy up guano by the sack to fertilize their crops, including the green-skinned oranges that are famously from Pursat province. The profits allowed him to put all seven of his children through school, and some through university, a rarity in rural Cambodia. At the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/cambodian-bat-man-bolsters-the-fight-against-dengue-fever/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Malaria surges in deforested parts of the Amazon, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/malaria-deforestation-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Oct 2019 11:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![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]]>
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							<![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;]]]>
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							<![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>]]>
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					<title>Slight warming could be enough to heighten risk of malaria: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/slight-warming-could-be-enough-to-heighten-risk-of-malaria-study/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/slight-warming-could-be-enough-to-heighten-risk-of-malaria-study/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>04 Jul 2019 13:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and East Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Ecology, Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Health, Impact Of Climate Change, Insects, Mosquitoes, Parasites, Planetary Health, Public Health, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate change could shift the calculus for reining in malaria, according to new research that suggests that infectious parasites can develop in mosquitoes more quickly at lower temperatures than scientists once thought. “Our study is the first since the 1930s to investigate the relationship between temperature and malaria parasite development,” Matthew Thomas, a professor of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate change could shift the calculus for reining in malaria, according to new research that suggests that infectious parasites can develop in mosquitoes more quickly at lower temperatures than scientists once thought. “Our study is the first since the 1930s to investigate the relationship between temperature and malaria parasite development,” Matthew Thomas, a professor of ecological entomology at Pennsylvania State University and one of the paper’s co-authors, said in a statement. That early research has guided scientists for decades, despite the fact that it rested on findings from a species of mosquito from Russia, which sits well outside the malaria-endemic tropics and subtropics. “Our results challenge this long-standing model in malaria biology,” Thomas added. A microscope view of the midgut of an A. stephensi mosquito infected with malaria parasites (the round circles). The researchers found that malaria parasites develop faster in mosquitoes at lower temperatures than previously thought. Image and caption courtesy of Penn State. Thomas and his colleagues, in a study published June 26 in the journal Biology Letters, focused their investigations on two species of mosquitos: Anopheles stephensi and Anopheles gambiae. A. stephensi&nbsp;and A. gambiae — actually a group, or “complex,” of nearly identical species — wreak havoc on human populations throughout their ranges in Asia and tropical Africa, passing along developed spores in their saliva. The “long-standing model” holds that parasites need nearly two months to mature at temperatures of 18 degrees Celsius (64 degrees Fahrenheit). That’s butting right up against the lifespan of mosquitoes, making it&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/slight-warming-could-be-enough-to-heighten-risk-of-malaria-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Tsetse fly numbers dwindle in the warming Zambezi Valley</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/tsetse-fly-numbers-dwindle-in-the-warming-zambezi-valley/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Oct 2018 06:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Atlantic Forest, Southern Africa, and Zimbabwe]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Cattle, Climate Change, Conservation, Diseases, Ecology, Environment, Extinction, Impact Of Climate Change, Insects, Livestock, Mammals, Mosquitoes, Research, Water, Wildlife, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Rising temperatures seem to have made a southern African park less hospitable to the tsetse fly (Glossina spp.), the carrier of a dangerous disease-causing microorganism, new research shows. Named for the single-celled trypanosomes that infiltrate the bloodstream during a tsetse bite, trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, kills perhaps a million cattle a year around the world. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Rising temperatures seem to have made a southern African park less hospitable to the tsetse fly (Glossina spp.), the carrier of a dangerous disease-causing microorganism, new research shows. Named for the single-celled trypanosomes that infiltrate the bloodstream during a tsetse bite, trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, kills perhaps a million cattle a year around the world. And for humans, it’s a painful disease that disrupts sleep patterns and can be deadly if left untreated. Sleeping sickness kills around a million cattle globally each year. Image by Justinjerez (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons. But over the past few decades, researchers in Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools National Park have noticed fewer flies. Those observations led disease ecologist Jennifer Lord of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the U.K. and her colleagues to speculate that climate change might be tinkering with the ecosystem. Annual average temperatures are up by nearly 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and by 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in the hottest month, November, at Rekomitjie Research Station in the park since the mid-1970s. Farmers haven’t worked the land since 1958, so most other conditions have been stable. At the same time, the number of flies that scientists are catching at Rekomitjie has dropped off. In 1990, they used to expect to catch about 50 tsetse flies around one cow; nowadays, they have to sample an average of 10 cows before finding just one fly. A tsetse fly (Glossina spp.), pictured here in Burkina Faso. Image courtesy of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/tsetse-fly-numbers-dwindle-in-the-warming-zambezi-valley/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<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]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Forests, Habitat Degradation, Insects, Invertebrates, Logging, Malaria, Mosquitoes, Rainforests, Research, Trees, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[G-1710-55576]]>
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							<![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;]]]>
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							<![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>]]>
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					<title>Study finds hundreds of thousands of tropical species at risk of extinction due to deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/study-finds-hundreds-of-thousands-of-tropical-species-at-risk-of-extinction-due-to-deforestation/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 May 2017 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Ants, Beetles, Biodiversity, Birds, Butterflies, Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment, Extinction, Forest Fragmentation, Forests, Frogs, Global Environmental Crisis, Insects, Lizards, Mammals, Mass Extinction, Mosquitoes, Rainforests, Research, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Trees, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A 2015 study found that humans activities are driving species loss at a rate 100 times faster than historical baseline levels — which the researchers behind the study characterized as a conservative estimate. This finding fueled speculation that we’re currently witnessing a sixth global mass extinction event. New research published in the Proceedings of the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A 2015 study found that humans activities are driving species loss at a rate 100 times faster than historical baseline levels — which the researchers behind the study characterized as a conservative estimate. This finding fueled speculation that we’re currently witnessing a sixth global mass extinction event. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides further evidence that, even if we haven’t already entered a sixth era of mass species loss on a global scale, it may yet be imminent. John Alroy, a professor of biological sciences at Australia’s Macquarie University, examined local-scale ecological data in order to forecast potential global extinction rates and found that hundreds of thousands of species are at risk if humans disturb all pristine forests remaining in the tropics. “Disturbance is no small matter, because roughly two-thirds to three-quarters of all the world&#8217;s species are found in tropical forests even though tropical forests only cover about 10 percent of the entire Earth&#8217;s continental area,&#8221; Alroy said in a statement. Scientists have long believed that the rate at which we are destroying tropical forests, and the habitat those forests represent, could drive a global mass extinction event, but the extent of the potential losses has never been fully understood. Mass extinction will occur primarily in tropical forests because Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity is so heavily concentrated in those ecosystems, Alroy notes in the study. In order to examine just how severe the impacts might be, he applied a highly accurate method&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/study-finds-hundreds-of-thousands-of-tropical-species-at-risk-of-extinction-due-to-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>To stop the Zika virus from spreading in Brazil, specialists call for an &#8216;environmental revolution&#8217;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/to-stop-the-zika-virus-from-spreading-in-brazil-specialists-call-for-an-environmental-revolution/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Feb 2016 11:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Carolina Torres]]>
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						<![CDATA[Ruxandra Guidi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cities, Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Forests, Habitat Loss, Insects, Mosquitoes, Pesticides, Pollution, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[For nearly five months now, Liana Azeredo avoids walking the streets of Rio de Janeiro during the day. Even under the intense heat of the city, she also prefers long blouses and pants. Inside her handbag, she’s carrying repellents and colored bracelets with citronella. The change in her life is due to the fear of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A bird&#8217;s eye view of the city of Rio de Janeiro and its poor sanitation. Photo courtesy of Mario Moscatelli. For nearly five months now, Liana Azeredo avoids walking the streets of Rio de Janeiro during the day. Even under the intense heat of the city, she also prefers long blouses and pants. Inside her handbag, she’s carrying repellents and colored bracelets with citronella. The change in her life is due to the fear of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits diseases such as Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika. Although all three are considered serious diseases, Liana&#8217;s biggest fear is being contaminated by the Zika virus, which has been suggested as the cause of microcephaly in babies still in gestation. Liana is pregnant and, like so many other women of Brazil, she feels very vulnerable. The connection between the Zika virus and cases of microcephaly began to be investigated in the state of Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil, in the second half of 2015. That&#8217;s when an outbreak of malformation in babies first started to be seen, along with a jump in Zika cases. The state, which usually reports about 130 cases annually, is currently investigating more than 4,000. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global emergency since the virus was detected in more than 50 countries since the first Brazilian cases were reported last year. An estimated half of the world’s population lives in areas where mosquitoes that can spread Zika are prevalent, and the WHO is concerned the number of cases&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/to-stop-the-zika-virus-from-spreading-in-brazil-specialists-call-for-an-environmental-revolution/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-179830</doi>				</item>
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					<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>
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					<pubDate>15 Feb 2016 17:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Catharine Watson]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Birds, Diseases, Environment, Fish, Insects, Invertebrates, Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Pesticides]]>
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							<![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;]]]>
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							<![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>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-179255</doi>				</item>
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					<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>
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					<pubDate>12 Aug 2013 22:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Tropics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Development, Diseases, Environment, Green, Health, Insects, Invertebrates, Malaria, Medicine, Mosquitoes, and Poverty]]>
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							<![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;]]]>
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							<![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>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-26544</doi>				</item>
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					<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>
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					<pubDate>19 Nov 2012 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rina Shaikh-lesko]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Diseases, Environment, Green, Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Technology]]>
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							<![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;]]]>
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							<![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>]]>
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					<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>
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					<pubDate>31 Oct 2011 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Green, Insects, Invertebrates, Malaria, Mosquitoes, Photos, Picture Of The Day, and War]]>
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							<![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;]]]>
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							<![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>]]>
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					<title>15 conservation issues to watch</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/15-conservation-issues-to-watch/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Mar 2011 23:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arctic, Greenland, and North America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, boreal forests, Carbon Sequestration, Cattle, Climate Change, Climate Science, Consumption, Development, Diseases, Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Energy, Environment, Environmental Services, Extinction, Fish, Fishing, Forest Carbon, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Genetic Engineering, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Health, Impact Of Climate Change, Invertebrates, Marine, Marine Animals, Mass Extinction, Mining, Mosquitoes, Overfishing, Parks, Politics, Pollution, Protected Areas, Ranching, Sea Ice, Soil Carbon, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deforestation near Gunung Palung in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler Deforestation, oil spills, coral acidification: these are just a few examples of ongoing, and well-researched, environmental changes that are imperiling the world&#8217;s biodiversity. But what issues are on the horizon? At the end of 2010, experts outlined in Trends in Ecology &#038; Evolution [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deforestation near Gunung Palung in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler Deforestation, oil spills, coral acidification: these are just a few examples of ongoing, and well-researched, environmental changes that are imperiling the world&#8217;s biodiversity. But what issues are on the horizon? At the end of 2010, experts outlined in Trends in Ecology &#038; Evolution 15 issues that may impact conservation efforts this year and beyond, but are not yet widely known. These are issues you may never hear about it again or could dominate tomorrow&#8217;s environmental headlines. &#8220;Our aim was to identify technological advances, environmental changes, novel ecological interactions and changes in society that could have substantial impacts on the conservation of biological diversity […] whether beneficial or detrimental,&#8221; the authors write in the paper. Experts originally came up with 71 possible issues and then whittled it down to the 15 most important—and least known. But given that these issues may or may not pose a problem, what should society do in order to stay ahead of the curve? &#8220;We believe that each issue is sufficiently important to warrant new research, policy consideration and sometimes pre-emptive, cost-effective action that might decrease the probability of undesirable consequences and increase the probability of desired outcomes,&#8221; the authors conclude. THE ISSUES (in alphabetic order) Aerial view of acquaculture—shrimp farms—in Java, Indonesia. Researchers say compounding impacts on the ocean are threatening to change it indefinitely. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Acid rain from nitrogen: Nitric acid rain, caused by nitrogen emissions from fertilizers&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/15-conservation-issues-to-watch/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>DEET repellent works by blocking human odor from mosquitoes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/03/deet-repellent-works-by-blocking-human-odor-from-mosquitoes/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Mar 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Diseases, Green, Health, Insects, and Mosquitoes]]>
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							<![CDATA[DEET repellent works by blocking human odor from mosquitoes DEET repellent works by blocking human odor from mosquitoes mongabay.com March 13, 2008 DEET, a potent insect repellent, works by blocking the aroma of human sweat, report researchers writing in the journal Science. The discovery could lead to the development of new repellents that have fewer [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[DEET repellent works by blocking human odor from mosquitoes DEET repellent works by blocking human odor from mosquitoes mongabay.com March 13, 2008 DEET, a potent insect repellent, works by blocking the aroma of human sweat, report researchers writing in the journal Science. The discovery could lead to the development of new repellents that have fewer health risks. While scientists have long known that mosquitoes are attracted to body odor and carbon dioxide, it has been unclear exactly how chemicals like DEET deterred blood-sucking insects. Now, by pinpointing DEET&#8217;s molecular target in insects, researchers at Rockefeller University have shown that the repellent masking human odors that attract mosquitoes and other blood-feeding insects. &#8220;Mosquitoes are strongly attracted to odors in human breath and sweat, including carbon dioxide, lactic acid and an alcohol-based compound called 1-octen-3-ol. Different receptors within their olfactory system detect these odors, among others, and lead them to their prey,&#8221; explained a statement from Rockefeller University. &#8220;DEET simply interferes with the proper functioning of odorant receptors, making the hunt for a tasty meal all the more difficult.&#8221; 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. From Mauro T. Marrelli et al (2007) Vosshall says DEET doesn&#8217;t shut down the entire olfactory system. &#8220;Instead, it seems to shut down strategically different parts of it. It just shuts down enough of these receptors to confuse the mosquito or blind it to the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/03/deet-repellent-works-by-blocking-human-odor-from-mosquitoes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-38459</doi>				</item>
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