This week, the Lancet publishes a series on diseases that are ‘zoonotic’, that is, infections shared by people and other animals. The first paper describes the sharing of pathogenic organisms by people and wild and domesticated animals is a natural…
Archive for December, 2012
Q+A in Doha: Meeting food needs while protecting forests
As the world struggles to feed a growing population without expanding into forests and scrubland, policymakers need to consider making more efficient use of land and relocating agriculture to non-forest or degraded landscapes, scientists say.
