Health
Climate change may have driven the emergence of the virus – Australian Times
Increased growth of Asian forest habitats favoured by bats could have played a direct role in the emergence of the pandemic.
Climate change may have driven the emergence of Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2), according to a new international study led by researchers from Cambridge University in the UK.
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, they say.
First evidence of the role climate change played
The study published, in the journal Science of the Total Environment, provides the first evidence of a mechanism…
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