Happy Earth Day Everyone, Let Us Have Peace on Earth
Photographs and Artwork by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
This is my studio, where I display some of my artworks. Avocado plant, tangerine, mango and more plants, keep me company in the wintertime. Now the weather is getting warmer I will move my plants to our little garden in the backyard. Some of the plants will be displayed in front of our shop with one of my artworks and one of John artworks on our shutter gate. I will miss not having the plants in my studio where I spend most of the evening and night, working on my Peace Project. But now spring has arrived, with roses blooming soon. The first flowers that appeared few weeks ago were daffodils. Our daughter Mali’s plant, called “Bleeding Heart”, is flowering with its second to bloom right now. I will plant the annuals such as Inpatients, Marigolds and a lot more soon. These annual plants produce beautiful flowers in a variety of colors. I am looking forward to the beauty of nature that gives us fresh and happy times to come.
Have A Happy Earth Day Everyone, Let Us Have Peace on Earth
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Friday, April 22, 2022
The construction below the Water Lily Pond, my artwork, is Bodhi’s House. I built this play house for my second grandson, Bodhi, after he was born. The pictures of families from both pairs of grandparents, are posted on all of the walls of this house. Bodhi likes to go inside of his play house to play hide and seek. The photos of Bodhi are integrated with the artwork by Grandpa John. Bodhi’s brother Kai, made one painting located at the top corner of the house.
With much Love,
Grandma Ing & Grandpa John, on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2022
This is Kai’s play house that was built in the same way I did with Bodhi’s house. This house is a preservation of memories of Kai, and all the family that had opportunities to be with Kai’s Great Grandparents, on his father’s side. Sadly, they both passed away few years ago. Hopefully, when Kai and Bodhi grow up, they will be able to look back to the past with all the pictures of events of the family gathering together when they were young.
With much Love,
Grandma Ing & Grandpa John, on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2022
Have A Happy Earth Day Everyone, Let Us Have Peace on Earth
Ever wonder what it’s like to see our planet from space? NASA’s astronauts will take you on a journey to the International Space Station, exploring the life-changing experience of an orbital perspective. View Earth as you’ve never seen it before: through the eyes of an astronaut.
Watch more shows on SDGs on NHK WORLD-JAPAN! https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/on… More quality content available on NHK WORLD-JAPAN! https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/on… Deep in the countryside of central Japan, an artisan makes the most of nature’s bounty while creating new items out of upcycled materials.
00:00 – Opening 00:32 – From a NY organic farm 01:45 – Carbon farming: What is it? 03:03 – Regenerative agriculture: A Minnesota Case Study 06:04 – Ray Archuleta: Visually comparing soil health 12:19 – Gabe Brown: The 5 principles 19:14 – Shinano Takuro: Visualized rhizosphere 23:05 – Carbon farming around the world 23:42 – Toshimichi Yoshida: Our dear friend bacteria 38:20 – The ‘4 per 1000’ Initiative 39:20 – Biochar: A Yamanashi Case Study 47:54 – Conclusion Regenerative agriculture, also known as carbon farming, is one way people are taking action against the climate crisis, turning harmful carbon emissions in the atmosphere into nutrient rich soil or biochar and using it to farm organic and sustainable food. Meet carbon farming pioneers like Gabe Brown in the US, Toshimichi Yoshida in Japan and more. Watch more shows on SDGs on NHK WORLD-JAPAN! https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/on… More quality content available on NHK WORLD-JAPAN! https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/on…
400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta’s fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife — accurate down to the block — when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn’t get delivery.
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Armed with an 18th-century map, a GPS and reams of data, Eric Sanderson has re-plotted the Manhattan of 1609, just in time for New York’s quadricentennial.
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A net-zero future is possible, but first we need to flip a mental switch to truly understand that we can stop the climate crisis if we try, says Nobel laureate Al Gore. In this inspiring and essential talk, Gore shares examples of extreme climate events (think: fires, floods and atmospheric tsunamis), identifies the man-made systems holding us back from progress and invites us all to join the movement for climate justice: “the biggest emergent social movement in all of history,” as he puts it. An unmissable tour de force on the current state of the crisis — and the transformations that will make it possible to find a way out of it.
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Given the scale of the challenge, the conversation around climate change is often tinged with doom and gloom. But climate tech investor Gabriel Kra thinks we need to reframe the crisis as a source of tremendous opportunity. He offers five big reasons to be optimistic about climate — starting with the fact that many of the world’s best minds are focused and working on building a clean future for all.
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Don’t be afraid to take a chance. Go out and get a job working at a company to solve climate change. Or advocate within your current company. But stand up and be a part of the solution. Companies can have an impact, positive or negative, and you can make a difference.
It was 50 years ago this weekend that giant pandas were first brought to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington. The historic program with China has fostered a collaboration between scientists and led to a conservation success story for the once endangered species. Geoff Bennett takes an up close look at these popular and precious animals. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
ABC News reporter Paul Lockyer mounted four separate filming expeditions to Lake Eyre, often with cameraman John Bean and pilot Gary Ticehurst. They captured extraordinary footage of nature at work on a grand scale, as the desert bloomed and water flowed all the way to the parched mouth of the Murray River in South Australia. Birds flocked to the outback in record numbers and the rivers and lakes were brimming with fish. Tragically, on the last of those expeditions in August 2011 the ABC helicopter crashed at Lake Eyre, killing Paul, John and Gary. This 90-minute documentary combines the best footage of those expeditions and shows off Lake Eyre in all its many moods. It also contains special tributes to the three men. Lake Eyre features the footage and commentary from Paul Lockyer that was filmed for the original news documentaries, Lake Eyre – Australia’s Outback Wonder produced in 2009, and the follow-up, Return to Lake Eyre – The Deluge produced in 2010. This special amended version pulls together the stunning images that captured history in the making, following the floodwaters from north Queensland down the great outback rivers to Lake Eyre and recording the extraordinary transformation of an environment that was desolate and stark, that turned into a flourishing oasis. And as producer, Ben Hawke says: “This commemorative edition is a fitting tribute to three great professionals, and three great blokes.” Please note the audio in this program is mono. 00:00:00 | Lake Eyre 00:03:48 | Donald Malcolm Campbell, Bluebird land speed record 00:08:15 | Flinders Ranges 00:11:27 | Australian outback floods 00:13:30 | Professor Richard Kingsford, environmental/ biological expert and river ecologist 00:16:55 | Elder Don Rowlands, Watti Watti and Wangkangurru Yarluyandi man 00:24:20 | David Brook, Birdsville 00:26:18 | Birdsville races 00:35:46 | Australian dry season 00:38:25 | Australian native wild flowers 00:41:43 | Australian desert storms 00:46:15 | Christmas storms 2009 01:05:59 | Birdsville races 01:07:30 | Lake Yamma Yamma on Channel Country in south-western Queensland 01:11:53 | 2010 Australian floods 01:13:30 | Darling River and desert rivers 01:14:48 | Dale McGrath, Glenn McGrath’s brother 01:16:06 | The Coorong, Murry River meets the sea 01:20:15 | Victoria and New South Wales September 2012 floods 01:27:24 | Commemorating Journalist Paul Lockyer, pilot Gary Ticehurst, and cameraman John Bean Subscribe ? and tap the notification bell ? to be delivered Australian stories every day: http://ab.co/ABCAus-subscribe ___________________________________________ Web: http://abc.net.au/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/abc Twitter: http://twitter.com/abcaustralia Instagram: http://instagram.com/abcaustralia ___________________________________________ This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel. Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC’s Online Conditions of Use http://www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm (Section 3).
Watch Al Roker’s extended interview with former President Barack Obama as they discuss climate change, politics and life after the White House. The 44th president gives Al heartfelt advice on dealing with an empty nest and sending kids off to college. Team Obama and Team Roker also hold a nature scavenger hunt with kids from the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington and the National Park Service. » Subscribe to TODAY: http://on.today.com/SubscribeToTODAY » Watch the latest from TODAY: http://bit.ly/LatestTODAY About: TODAY brings you the latest headlines and expert tips on money, health and parenting. We wake up every morning to give you and your family all you need to start your day. If it matters to you, it matters to us. We are in the people business. Subscribe to our channel for exclusive TODAY archival footage & our original web series. Connect with TODAY Online! Visit TODAY’s Website: http://on.today.com/ReadTODAY Find TODAY on Facebook: http://on.today.com/LikeTODAY Follow TODAY on Twitter: http://on.today.com/FollowTODAY Follow TODAY on Instagram: http://on.today.com/InstaTODAY#AlRoker#Obama#NationalParks
On this edition for Sunday, April 12, worshippers observe Easter Sunday from a distance as stay-at-home orders remain in place globally, and the coronavirus spreads in central Africa, just as the region nearly hit a milestone by defeating the Ebola virus. Also, social “dis-dancing” and the global disco that’s bringing people together. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
On this edition for Saturday, April 11, coronavirus cases in the U.S. grow to more than half a million, some people are turning to social media for financial help during the outbreak, what the data is telling us about being asymptomatic, and keeping the faith during the holidays in changing times. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new virus.
The disease causes respiratory illness (like the flu) with symptoms such as a cough, fever, and in more severe cases, difficulty breathing. You can protect yourself by washing your hands frequently, avoiding touching your face, and avoiding close contact (1 meter or 3 feet) with people who are unwell.
HOW IT SPREADS
Coronavirus disease spreads primarily through contact with an infected person when they cough or sneeze. It also spreads when a person touches a surface or object that has the virus on it, then touches their eyes, nose, or mouth.
Worried about the economy’s effect on his reelection prospects, President Trump is pushing to send Americans back to work before many health experts believe is safe. He has publicly suggested the worst of the outbreak will soon be over, and has privately asked aides for a strategy to resume business activity by May 1. Read about the White House push to reopen the country.
Ohio is emerging as a model example of how to manage the virus: identify it early, plan for the worst and hope for the best. Gov. Mike DeWine (R) shut down a major convention in early March, before the state had a single confirmed infection, and the Cleveland Clinic began planning to add hundreds of new hospital beds even earlier. That head start appears to be paying off, with Ohio reporting dramatically lower infection and death rates than similarly sized states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Illinois. More on its aggressive strategy here. Then check out a video from the state’s Department of Health that has gone viral as a crystal-clear visualization of how social distancing is meant to fight the virus’s spread.
“The coronavirus started in bats, traveled around the world in people and has also infected felines. Could the corona end up infecting and spreading in our own bat population?” — Susan Wetmore in Nebraska
Yes it could, and thank you for asking about the bats, which have been unfairly demonized for their role in the virus’s origin story.
The novel coronavirus is a species-hopper. Scientists believe it first incubated inside horseshoe bats in China — which have amazing immune systems that makes them unwitting hosts for many pathogens — and mutated to spread to humans last year.
Since then, the virus has infected at least 1.5 million people, but also some dogs, cats — even a tiger at the Bronx Zoo.
Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is worried the coronavirus could spread to North American bats such as the vesper bat, which last shared a common ancestor with the horseshoe bats of China approximately 50 million years ago. “They are about as different as bats get from one another,” Bruce Patterson, a curator of mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, told The Post.
The chance is fairly low of the virus going full circle — from bats to people then back into bats on the other side of the planet. But, as The Post reports, it would be bad for bats and non-bats alike if it happened.
The North American bat population is already being decimated by an unrelated fungal disease, and their long-distance flight patterns could spread the coronavirus over a huge area if they became incubators.
There could even be a “spill-back of [the novel coronavirus] from bats back into humans … which would make eradication of [the virus] unlikely,” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service veterinarian Samantha Gibbs wrote in a notice to researchers, asking them to suspend all bat fieldwork, lest an infected scientist sicken a bat. Read the whole story for more.
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The United States has more confirmed covid-19 deaths than any other nation, with nearly 19,000 fatal cases, including more than 2,000 reported on Friday alone. The country also accounts for nearly 30 percent of the world’s known infections: about 500,000 out of more than 1.7 million, although all these figures are probably too low due to a general scarcity of coronavirus testing and suspect reports from such countries as China.
U.S. governors have asked Congress for $500 billion in rescue funds, as many states face massive budget shortfalls after paying for the public health responses at the outbreak’s front lines. The economic crisis has also pushed the Postal Service to the brink of collapse, we report in a story about President Trump’s refusal to bail out the mail service.
The IRS has created an online tool to help people who don’t file taxes, such as many Social Security recipients, get their stimulus payments sooner. Payments of up to $1,200 a person will be sent to most people’s bank accounts starting next week, according to the tax agency. Find out more about how you can track your payment.
Another stimulus program to loan $349 billion to small businesses is faltering, The Post reports: “Banks, tasked with disbursing the money, have been confused about the rules, which has delayed lending. Entrepreneurs are reporting troubles applying. And even some who make it through the application process say they’re facing dilemmas about how to use the money.” Read more here.
Concerned that last month’s stimulus package was too generous with unemployment benefits, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia has tweaked rules to make it more difficult for gig workers to get money and easier for businesses to avoid paying workers sick and family leave. The full report can be found here.
The pandemic has turbocharged a movement to eliminate SAT and ACT testing requirements for college applicants. Advocates have argued for years that the tests penalize freshmen who lack access to good teachers and prep courses. We report that a record number of schools have made the tests optional in the past few weeks — “actions that could presage a broad shift away from admissions testing in higher education.”
The brain trust behind the federal government’s war on the coronavirus is “a bureaucratic nesting doll” of oft-competing task forces that have produced no clear plan to end the crisis, The Washington Post reports. There is the official task force led by Vice President Pence; the “shadow task force” led by presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner; the new “Opening Our Country Council”; and a splinter group of medical professionals. And then there is President Trump, who often overrides and undermines whatever decisions these groups manage to make. Read our story on the problems with this system, based on interviews with 22 White House insiders.
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“I have heard that pollution has greatly decreased recently as a result of reduced air and vehicular traffic. Is this so? Is the impact large enough to convince those who do not ‘believe’ in global warming to see the wisdom in reducing emissions?”— Christine in California
We can’t predict how people will respond to the evidence, but yes, the global economic shutdown appears to be significantly reducing all the muck in the atmosphere.
The notoriously smoggy Los Angeles region has seen marked drops in nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate pollution since residents were ordered to stay at home — “the longest stretch of ‘good’ air quality in March seen since at least 1995,” The Post writes.
Similar improvements have been mapped in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Ohio Valley and Southwest — and across the world as far away as China. And carbon dioxide emissions that drive global warming have temporarily relented, somewhat, after many flights were grounded.
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On this edition for Sunday, April 5, President Trump predicts tough weeks ahead as the death toll from the coronavirus mounts, how the outbreak has forced the medical community to use telehealth, a look at the impact the outbreak may have on science skeptics, and should parents lower the bar while working and caring for their children at home? Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
On this edition for Saturday, April 4, the latest on the coronavirus, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issues a statewide stay-at-home order in response to the pandemic, the potential consequences of the Trump administration’s rollback of automobile efficiency standards, and what the global slowdown means for air pollution and climate change. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
The Trump administration wants to roll back another federal regulation intended to reduce global warming. Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency rules require U.S. vehicles to increase mileage standards by an average of 5 percent per year from 2021 through 2026. Tuesday’s move would reduce the improvement threshold to 1.5 percent. The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin joins John Yang to discuss. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
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Coronavirus Live Streaming: Breaking news, world Map and live counter on confirmed cases and recovered cases. I started this live stream on Jan 26th, and since Jan 30th I have been streaming this without stopping. Many people are worried about the spread of coronavirus. For anyone that wants to know the real-time progression of the worldwide spread of this virus, I offer this live stream. The purpose is not to instill fear or panic, nor is it to necessarily comfort; I just want to present the data to help inform the public of the current situation. The purpose of this stream is to show basic information and data to understand the situation easily. For detail information, please visit our reference sites.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new virus.
The disease causes respiratory illness (like the flu) with symptoms such as a cough, fever, and in more severe cases, difficulty breathing. You can protect yourself by washing your hands frequently, avoiding touching your face, and avoiding close contact (1 meter or 3 feet) with people who are unwell.
HOW IT SPREADS
Coronavirus disease spreads primarily through contact with an infected person when they cough or sneeze. It also spreads when a person touches a surface or object that has the virus on it, then touches their eyes, nose, or mouth.
Reuters photographers have captured the silent streets and stations of the world amid the lockdown, with each photo taken at midday.
Transport hubs and high streets that were once some of the world’s busiest places are shown nearly deserted amid the many lockdowns happening around the globe owing to the coronavirus pandemic.
All photos were taken at midday on 31 March and feature a wristwatch or clock showing the time.
On this edition for Sunday, March 29, the latest on the
coronavirus outbreak, how renters are impacted by the pandemic, the
complications of the virus for incarcerated people, and welcoming a bundle of
joy in trying times. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Stream your PBS
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On this edition for Saturday, March 28, more than 600,000 people
around the world are now infected with the coronavirus, the pandemic strains
the health care safety net as people file for unemployment by the millions, and
will the new federal stimulus package give a boost to the concept of universal
basic income? Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Stream your PBS favorites
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Many people are worried about the coronavirus spreading. For anyone that wants
to know the numbers and progression of the worldwide spread of this virus, I
offer this live stream. The purpose is not to instill fear or panic, nor is it
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public of the current situation. At first, I tried to show only official data
from governments without any manipulation. But many people wanted to apply an
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When will the coronavirus vaccine be ready? Epidemiologist
Seth Berkley (head of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance) takes us inside the effort to
create a vaccine for COVID-19. With clarity and urgency, he explains what makes
it so challenging to develop, when we can expect it to be rolled out at scale
and why we’ll need global collaboration to get it done. (This virtual
conversation is part of the TED Connects series, hosted by head of TED Chris
Anderson and current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers. Recorded March
26, 2020)
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coronavirus pandemic with a sense of responsibility, compassion and wisdom.
It seems like we wait for a disastrous disease outbreak
before we get serious about making a vaccine for it. Seth Berkley lays out the
market realities and unbalanced risks behind why we aren’t making vaccines for
the world’s biggest diseases.
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“I read that you can self-test yourself by holding your
breath for 10 seconds. If you can hold your breath for 10 seconds, then you
don’t have respiratory problem and don’t have covid-19. Is this true?” — Larry,
California
No, this is bad information that has been spreading over
social media.
“Most young patients with coronavirus will be able to hold
their breaths for much longer than 10 seconds. And many elderly without the
virus won’t be able to do it,” the University of Maryland’s chief of
infectious diseases, Faheem Younus, tweeted last week. (Read that thread for other bogus
coronavirus tips.)
The early covid-19 symptoms to watch for are a fever, cough
and shortness of breath, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
However, research suggests that even
people with no apparent symptoms could have the disease and spread it to
others. That’s why medical experts recommend behaving as if
you have the virus: avoid contact with others as much as possible, wash your
hands thoroughly and consult a medical professional if you show symptoms.
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Mayibout
2 is not a healthy place. The 150 or so people who live in the village, which
sits on the south bank of the Ivindo River, deep in the great Minkebe forest in
northern Gabon, are used to occasional bouts of diseases such as malaria,
dengue, yellow fever and sleeping sickness. Mostly they shrug them off.
But in
January 1996, Ebola, a deadly virus then barely known to humans,
unexpectedly spilled
out of the forest in a wave of small epidemics. The disease killed 21 of 37
villagers who were reported to have been infected, including a number who had
carried, skinned, chopped or eaten a chimpanzee from the nearby forest.
I
traveled to Mayibout 2 in 2004 to investigate why deadly diseases new to humans
were emerging from biodiversity “hot spots” like tropical rainforests and
bushmeat markets in African and Asian cities.
It took
a day by canoe and then many hours down degraded forest logging roads passing
Baka villages and a small gold mine to reach the village. There, I found
traumatized people still fearful that the deadly virus, which
kills up to 90% of the people it infects, would return.
Villagers told me how
children had gone into the forest with dogs that had killed a chimp. They said
that everyone who cooked or ate it got a terrible fever within a few hours.
Some died immediately, while others were taken down the river to hospital. A
few, like Nesto Bematsick, recovered. “We used to love the forest, now we fear
it,” he told me. Many of Bematsick’s family members died.
Only a
decade or two ago it was widely thought that tropical forests and intact
natural environments teeming with exotic wildlife threatened humans by
harboring the viruses and pathogens that lead to new diseases in humans like
Ebola, HIV and dengue.
But a
number of researchers today think that it is actually humanity’s destruction of
biodiversity that creates the conditions for new viruses and diseases like
COVID-19, the viral disease that emerged in China in December 2019, to
arise—with profound health and economic impacts in rich and poor countries
alike. In fact, a new discipline, planetary health, is emerging that focuses on
the increasingly visible connections among the well-being of humans, other
living things and entire ecosystems.
Is it
possible, then, that it was human activity, such as road building, mining,
hunting and logging, that triggered the Ebola epidemics in Mayibout 2 and
elsewhere in the 1990s and that is unleashing new terrors today?
“We invade tropical
forests and other wild landscapes, which harbor so many species of animals and
plants—and within those creatures, so many unknown viruses,” David Quammen,
author of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next
Pandemic, recently
wrote in the New York Times. “We cut the trees; we kill the
animals or cage them and send them to markets. We disrupt ecosystems, and we
shake viruses loose from their natural hosts. When that happens, they need a
new host. Often, we are it.”
INCREASING THREAT
Research
suggests that outbreaks of animal-borne and other infectious
diseases like Ebola, SARS, bird flu and now COVID-19, caused by a novel
coronavirus, are on the rise. Pathogens are crossing
from animals to humans, and many are now able to spread quickly to
new places. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates
that three-quarters of “new or emerging” diseases that infect humans originate
in nonhuman animals.
Some,
like rabies and plague, crossed from animals centuries ago. Others, like
Marburg, which is thought to be transmitted by bats, are still rare. A few, like
COVID-19, which emerged last year in Wuhan, China, and MERS, which is linked to
camels in the Middle East, are new to humans and spreading globally.
Other
diseases that
have crossed into humans include Lassa
fever, which was first identified in 1969 in Nigeria; Nipah from
Malaysia; and SARS from China, which killed more than 700 people and traveled
to 30 countries in 2002–03. Some, like Zika and West Nile virus, which emerged
in Africa, have mutated and become established on other continents.
Kate
Jones, chair of ecology and biodiversity at UCL, calls emerging animal-borne
infectious diseases an “increasing and very significant threat to global
health, security and economies.”
AMPLIFICATION EFFECT
In
2008, Jones and a team of researchers identified 335
diseases that emerged between 1960 and 2004, at least 60% of which came from
non-human animals.
Increasingly,
says Jones, these zoonotic diseases are linked to environmental change and
human behavior. The disruption of pristine forests driven by logging, mining, road
building through remote places, rapid urbanization and
population growth is bringing people into closer contact with animal species
they may never have been near before, she says.
The
resulting transmission of disease from wildlife to humans, she says, is now “a
hidden cost of human economic development. There are just so many more of us,
in every environment. We are going into largely undisturbed places and being
exposed more and more. We are creating habitats where viruses are transmitted
more easily, and then we are surprised that we have new ones.”
Jones
studies how land use change contributes to the risk. “We are researching how
species in degraded habitats are likely to carry more viruses which can infect
humans,” she says. “Simpler systems get an amplification effect. Destroy
landscapes, and the species you are left with are the ones humans get the
diseases from.”
“There
are countless pathogens out there continuing to evolve which at some point
could pose a threat to humans,” says Eric Fevre, chair of veterinary infectious
diseases at the University of Liverpool’s Institute
of Infection and Global Health. “The risk [of pathogens
jumping from animals to humans] has always been there.”
The
difference between now and a few decades ago, Fevre says, is that diseases are
likely to spring up in both urban and natural environments. “We have created
densely packed populations where alongside us are bats and rodents and birds,
pets and other living things. That creates intense interaction and
opportunities for things to move from species to species,” he says.
TIP OF THE ICEBERG
“Pathogens
do not respect species boundaries,” says disease ecologist Thomas Gillespie, an
associate professor in Emory University’s Department of
Environmental Sciences who studies how shrinking natural
habitats and changing behavior add to the risks of diseases spilling over from
animals to humans.
“I am not at all surprised about the
coronavirus outbreak,” he says. “The majority of pathogens are still to be
discovered. We are at the very tip of the iceberg.”
Humans,
says Gillespie, are creating the conditions for the spread of diseases by
reducing the natural barriers between virus host animals—in which the virus is
naturally circulating—and themselves. “We fully expect the arrival of pandemic
influenza; we can expect large-scale human mortalities; we can expect other
pathogens with other impacts. A disease like Ebola is not easily spread. But
something with a mortality rate of Ebola spread by something like measles would
be catastrophic,” Gillespie says.
Wildlife
everywhere is being put under more stress, he says. “Major landscape changes
are causing animals to lose habitats, which means species become crowded
together and also come into greater contact with humans. Species that survive
change are now moving and mixing with different animals and with humans.”
Gillespie
sees this in the U.S., where suburbs fragmenting forests raise the risk of
humans contracting Lyme disease. “Altering the ecosystem affects the complex
cycle of the Lyme pathogen. People living close by are more likely to get
bitten by a tick carrying Lyme bacteria,” he says.
Yet
human health research seldom considers the surrounding natural ecosystems, says
Richard Ostfeld, distinguished senior scientist at the Cary Institute of
Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. He and others are developing the
emerging discipline of planetary health, which looks at the links between human
and ecosystem health.
“There’s
misapprehension among scientists and the public that natural ecosystems are the
source of threats to ourselves. It’s a mistake. Nature poses threats, it is
true, but it’s human activities that do the real damage. The health risks in a
natural environment can be made much worse when we interfere with it,” he says.
Ostfeld
points to rats and bats, which
are strongly linked with the direct and indirect spread of zoonotic diseases.
“Rodents and some bats thrive when we disrupt natural habitats. They are the
most likely to promote transmissions [of pathogens]. The more we disturb the
forests and habitats the more danger we are in,” he says.
Felicia Keesing, professor of biology at Bard College, New York,
studies how environmental changes influence the probability that humans will be
exposed to infectious diseases. “When we erode biodiversity, we see a
proliferation of the species most likely to transmit new diseases to us, but there’s also good evidence
that those same species are the best hosts for existing diseases,”
she wrote in an email to Ensia.
THE MARKET CONNECTION
Disease
ecologists argue that viruses and other pathogens are also likely to move from
animals to humans in the many informal markets that have sprung up to provide
fresh meat to fast-growing urban populations around the world. Here animals are
slaughtered, cut up and sold on the spot.
The
“wet market” (one that sells fresh produce and meat) in Wuhan, thought by the
Chinese government to be the starting point of the current COVID-19 pandemic,
was known to sell numerous
wild animals, including live wolf pups, salamanders, crocodiles, scorpions,
rats, squirrels, foxes, civets and turtles.
Equally,
urban markets in west and central Africa see monkeys, bats, rats and dozens of
species of bird, mammal, insect and rodent slaughtered and sold close to open
refuse dumps and with no drainage.
“Wet
markets make a perfect storm for cross-species transmission of pathogens,” says
Gillespie. “Whenever you have novel interactions with a range of species in one
place, whether that is in a natural environment like a forest or a wet market,
you can have a spillover event.”
The
Wuhan market, along with others that sell live animals, has been shut by the
Chinese authorities, and the government in February outlawed
trading and eating wild animals except for fish and
seafood. But bans on live animals being sold in urban areas or informal markets
are not the answer, say some scientists.
“The
wet market in Lagos is notorious. It’s like a nuclear bomb waiting to happen.
But it’s not fair to demonize places which do not have fridges. These
traditional markets provide much of the food for Africa and Asia,” says Jones.
“These
markets are essential sources of food for hundreds of millions of poor people,
and getting rid of them is impossible,” says Delia Grace, a senior
epidemiologist and veterinarian with the International Livestock Research
Institute, which is based in Nairobi, Kenya. She argues that bans force traders
underground, where they may pay less attention to hygiene.
Fevre
and Cecilia Tacoli, principal researcher in the human settlements research
group at the International Institute of Environment and Development
(IIED), argue
in a blog post that “rather than pointing the finger at wet markets,” we
should look at the burgeoning trade in wild animals.
“[I]t
is wild animals rather than farmed animals that are the natural hosts of many
viruses,” they write. “Wet markets are considered part of the informal food
trade that is often blamed for contributing to spreading disease. But …
evidence shows the link between informal markets and disease is not
always so clear cut.”
CHANGING BEHAVIOR
So
what, if anything, can we do about all of this?
Jones
says that change must come from both rich and poor societies. Demand for wood,
minerals and resources from the Global North leads to the degraded landscapes
and ecological disruption that drives disease, she says. “We must think about
global biosecurity, find the weak points and bolster the provision of health
care in developing countries. Otherwise we can expect more of the same,” she
says.
“The
risks are greater now. They were always present and have been there for
generations. It is our interactions with that risk which must be changed,” says
Brian Bird, a research virologist at the University of California, Davis School
of Veterinary Medicine One Health Institute, where he leads Ebola-related
surveillance activities in Sierra Leone and elsewhere.
“We are
in an era now of chronic emergency,” Bird says. “Diseases are more likely to
travel further and faster than before, which means we must be faster in our
responses. It needs investments, change in human behavior, and it means we must
listen to people at community levels.”
Getting
the message about pathogens and disease to hunters, loggers, market traders and
consumers is key, Bird says. “These spillovers start with one or two people.
The solutions start with education and awareness. We must make people aware
things are different now. I have learned from working in Sierra Leone with
Ebola-affected people that local communities have the hunger and desire to have
information,” he says. “They want to know what to do. They want to learn.”
Fevre
and Tacoli advocate rethinking urban infrastructure, particularly within
low-income and informal settlements. “Short-term efforts are focused on
containing the spread of infection,” they
write. “The longer term—given that new infectious diseases will
likely continue to spread rapidly into and within cities—calls for an overhaul
of current approaches to urban planning and development.”
The bottom line, Bird says, is to be prepared. “We can’t predict
where the next pandemic will come from, so we need mitigation plans to take
into account the worst possible scenarios,” he says. “The only certain thing is
that the next one will certainly come.”
Australia-based
photographer Kristian Laine recently got a glimpse at a
particularly special underwater creature: the world’s only known pink manta ray. Spanning about 11 feet
and nicknamed Inspector Clouseau after The Pink Panther, the aquatic animal lives near Lady Elliot
Island, which is part of the Great Barrier Reef. “I had no idea there were
pink mantas in the world, so I was confused and thought my strobes were broken
or doing something weird,” Laine told National Geographic.
Project Manta has
been studying the male fish since he was discovered in 2015. After conducting a
skin biopsy, the organization concluded that the unusual hue is not due to diet
or disease but rather is likely a genetic mutation called erythrism, which
causes changes in melanin expressions. Most manta rays are black, white, or a
combination of the two.
For more of Laine’s
underwater shots, follow him on Instagram or Facebook. You also
can purchase one of his photographs of Inspector Clouseau and other ocean fish
from his shop. (via My
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This is my studio, where I display some of my artworks. Avocado plant, tangerine, mango and more plants, keep me company in the wintertime. Now the weather is getting warmer I will move my plants to our little garden in the backyard. Some of the plants will be displayed in front of our shop with one of my artworks and one of John artworks on our shutter gate. I will miss not having the plants in my studio where I spend most of the evening and night, working on my Peace Project. But now spring has arrived, with roses blooming soon. The first flowers that appeared few weeks ago were daffodils. Our daughter Mali’s plant, called “Bleeding Heart”, is flowering with its second to bloom right now. I will plant the annuals such as Inpatients, Marigolds and a lot more soon. These annual plants produce beautiful flowers in a variety of colors. I am looking forward to the beauty of nature that gives us fresh and happy times to come.
The construction below the Water Lily Pond, my artwork, is Bodhi’s House. I built this play house for my second grandson, Bodhi, after he was born. The pictures of families from both pairs of grandparents, are posted on all of the walls of this house. Bodhi likes to go inside of his play house to play hide and seek. The photos of Bodhi are integrated with the artwork by Grandpa John. Bodhi’s brother Kai, made one painting located at the top corner of the house.
This is Kai’s play house that was built in the same way I did with Bodhi’s house. This house is a preservation of memories of Kai, and all the family that had opportunities to be with Kai’s Great Grandparents, on his father’s side. Sadly, they both passed away few years ago. Hopefully, when Kai and Bodhi grow up, they will be able to look back to the past with all the pictures of events of the family gathering together when they were young.
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