Climate change may have driven the emergence of SARS-CoV-2
A new study has provided evidence of a mechanism by which climate change could have played a direct role in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 which is the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Green-house gas emissions over the last century have led to making southern China a hotspot for bat-borne coronavirus by creating a forest habitat that is favored by bats. The study published in the journal called Science of the Total Environment serves as the first instance of the mechanism by which climate change could have contributed to the emergence of the pandemic-causing virus, SARS-CoV-2. The study shows that there have been large-scale changes over the past century in the type of vegetation present in the southern Chinese Yunnan province and its adjacent regions like Myanmar and Laos. The change in vegetation has led to climatic changes such as increased temperature, sunlight, and atmospheric carbon dioxide which further
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