We only have one planet, but we're still using it up too fast

Celebrating the first moon landing provided a reminder that we have only one Earth. Our blue planet is situated in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms, made up of billions of stars and planets, far from the centre of the galaxy.

Earth viewed from the Apollo 11 Command Module.
Despite all our astronomical investments, we are yet to find another water-laden planet like it anywhere in the universe, but that isn’t preventing us from depleting its offerings as if there is a conga line of replacements.

Read the opinion piece from The Age by Gareth O’Reilly - “We only have one planet, but we're still using it up too fast."

Climate change raises concerns about disease spread

Sonia Altizer - she is
concerned about climate
and the spread of disease.

Climate change has many implications, but among the most least understood is the rising opportunity it brings for the spread of disease.

A recent Climate Desk report headed: “Climate Change boosts disease spread”, warned that we sometimes forget that one of consequence of climate change is the likely way for diseases to spread.

It notes, though, that the natural world offers stark reminders.

Sonia Altizer from the University of Georgia in the US, and her colleagues has urged that humans learn from the interactions in nature.

Writing in Science magazine, she argued that climate change is affecting the spread of disease worldwide.