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Updated / Friday, 5 Feb 2021 16:19 Researchers say the changing climate and habitat destruction have driven virus-carrying species into ever closer contact with humans Climate change may have played a "key role" in the transmission of the coronavirus to humans by driving several species of pathogen-carrying bats into closer contact, research shows. The virus, which has killed more than two million people and caused unprecedented global disruption, is thought to have originated in bats in southeast Asia. Researchers from the University of Cambridge used temperature and rainfall data over the ...

PARIS (AFP) - Climate change may have played a "key role" in the transmission of the coronavirus to humans by driving several species of pathogen-carrying bats into closer contact, research showed on Friday (Feb 5). The virus, which has killed more than 2.2 million people and caused unprecedented global disruption, is thought to have originated in bats in South-east Asia. Researchers from the University of Cambridge used temperature and rainfall data over the last 100 years to model populations of dozens of bat species based on their habitat requirements. They found that over the last century...

Climate change may have played a role in Covid-19 pandemic – study 05/02/2021, 12:03 pm Global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a ‘hotspot’ for many bat species that host coronaviruses (Peter Byrne/PA) Climate change may have played a direct role in the emergence of Sars-CoV-2 – the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, a study has suggested. Global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a “hotspot” for many bat species that host coronaviruses, according to scientists from the University of Cambridge. ...

Published 5 February 2021 Global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a hotspot for bat-borne coronaviruses, by driving growth of forest habitat favored by bats. Science of the Total Environment provides the first evidence of a mechanism by which climate change could have played a direct role in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. The study has revealed large-scale changes in the type of vegetation in the southern Chinese Yunnan province, and adjacent regions in Myanmar and Laos, over the last century. Climatic change...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Estimated increase in the local number of bat species due to shifts in their geographical ranges driven by climate change since 1901. The zoomed-in area represents the likely spatial... view more  Credit: Dr Robert Beyer Global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a hotspot for bat-borne coronaviruses, by driving growth of forest habitat favoured by bats. A new study published today in the journal Science of the Total Environment provides the first evidence of a mechanism by which climate change could have played a direct role in ...