Samuel S. Myers

TL;DR: Overall, despite many remaining questions, current evidence indicates that preserving intact ecosystems and their endemic biodiversity should generally reduce the prevalence of infectious diseases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends: conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an overreliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate eff ect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.

TL;DR: It is reported that C3 grains and legumes have lower concentrations of zinc and iron when grown under field conditions at the elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration predicted for the middle of this century.

TL;DR: The main pathways by which climate change may affect the authors' food production systems-agriculture, fisheries, and livestock-as well as the socioeconomic forces that may influence equitable distribution are reviewed.

TL;DR: Christopher Golden and colleagues calculate that declining numbers of marine fish will spell more malnutrition in many developing nations and warn of the need to act now to address this threat.