The Environmental Journal of Southern Appalachia

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Thursday, 04 March 2021 11:15

How disease changes evolution

Mar 5  noon–1 p.m. EST

Epidemics, Societies, and Math: How disease changes animal, including human, evolution
Nina Fefferman, professor in the UT Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics
University of Tennessee Science Forum

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Learn how evolution, despite risks of infectious diseases, reaped benefits from social contact and group organization.

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Tuesday, 09 February 2021 23:57

Air pollution deadlier than COVID-19!

ScienceDirect: Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion
New report estimates 8.7 million premature deaths anually from fine particulate matter (PM2.5

Fossil fuels are the major source of invisible airborne particles that cause disease and mortality.

Published in Feedbag