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Scientists find only 3% of land areas unblemished by humans Reuters Sunday, April 18th 2021, 2:49 pm - A 2019 U.N. report estimated as many as 1 million species are under threat of extinction due to human activity. SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Very little of today’s world resembles Planet Earth from 500 years ago. In fact, only about 3% of land surfaces might be ecologically intact -- still home to their full range of native species and unblemished by human activity, according to new research. The finding -- published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change -- is far lower...

Extreme rainfall associated with climate change is causing harm to babies in some of the most forgotten places on the planet setting in motion a chain of disadvantage down the generations, according to new research in Nature Sustainability.

Extreme rainfall associated with climate change is causing harm to babies in some of the most forgotten places on the planet setting in motion a chain of disadvantage down the generations, according to new research in

Entire staff of Franciscan hospital boats in Amazon infected with COVID-19 Mar 1, 2021 contributor Father Nicolau Castro, coordinator of the Associação e Fraternidade São Francisco de Assis na Providência de Deus 's hospital in Juruti, leaves the hospital after battling COVID-19. (Credit: Courtesy of the Associação e Fraternidade São Francisco de Assis na Providência de Deus.) Two hospital boats sent to the remote communities of the Amazon region in Brazil to treat COVID-19 patients have suspended operations after their entire staff tested positive for the coronavirus on February 11. ...

Enhanced public health measures for those coming from high risk countries in force today