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JRC identifies 9.3% of global land as high-risk for zoonotic disease outbreaks

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The Geography of Risk: Where the Map Flashes Red

A new global risk assessment, combining machine learning with satellite data, identifies 9.3% of the world’s land area as highly vulnerable to dangerous disease outbreaks. The analysis highlights Latin America and Oceania as regions where environmental changes are altering the dynamics of pathogen transmission from animals to humans. Researchers emphasize that these shifts demand closer … Read more

Microsoft and US tech firms lobbied EU to hide datacentre emissions data

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Microsoft and US tech firms lobbied EU to hide datacentre emissions data

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public view written almost word for word into EU rules. The secrecy provision, which the European Commission added to its proposal almost verbatim … Read more