US Coronavirus Data Will Now Go Straight To The White House. Here’s What This Means For The World
Erin Smith, Edith Cowan University Led by physicians, scientists and epidemiologists, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
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How ‘Good’ Does A COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine Need To Be To Stop The Pandemic? A New Study Has Answers
The lower the vaccine’s effectiveness, the more likely social distancing in some form may still be necessary. Gopixa via Getty…
How The Lyme Disease Epidemic Is Spreading And Why Ticks Are So Hard To Stop
Ticks that transmit Lyme disease continue to expand their range. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty Durland Fish, Yale University In the…
Why It’s Wrong To Blame Livestock Farms For Coronavirus
CBackyard chickens may seem free and happy, but are at increased risk of contracting diseases from wild birds. Bruce Turner/Flickr,…
Bats Are Hosts To A Range Of Viruses But Don’t Get Sick – Why?
Fruit bats. nutsiam/Shutterstock Keith Grehan, University of Leeds Bats harbour many diverse viruses, including coronaviruses. Indeed, Sars, Mers and COVID-19…
Coconut Oil Production Threatens Five Times More Species Than Palm Oil – New Findings
Sri Lanka/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Erik Meijaard, University of Kent Born in the Netherlands and brought up in Germany, it wasn’t…
Hundreds Of Elephants Are Mysteriously Dying In Botswana – A Conservationist Explains What We Know
Vicky Boult, University of Reading Worrying news has recently come to light: hundreds of elephants have been found dead in…
Alert But Not Alarmed: What To Make Of New H1N1 Swine Flu With ‘Pandemic Potential’ Found In China
Shutterstock Ian M. Mackay, The University of Queensland Researchers have found a new strain of flu virus with “pandemic potential”…
New Research Shows The South Pole Is Warming Faster Than The Rest Of The World
Elaine Hood/NSF Kyle Clem, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Climate scientists long thought Antarctica’s interior may not…
100 Degrees In Siberia? 5 Ways The Extreme Arctic Heat Wave Follows A Disturbing Pattern
This Arctic heat wave has been unusually long-lived. The darkest reds on this map of the Arctic are areas that…