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Health and Climate Change
How global warming and deforestation are helping diseases jump from animals to humans and spreading fungal infections, while also fuelling antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’. Plus the impact on malaria, Lyme disease and the insurance industry
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State of Play
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.