In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers investigated how large-scale livestock rearing may result in the emergence and transmission of novel, potentially zoonotic pathogens. They ...
Industrialized farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from animals to humans) because of better control, biosecurity and separation of livestock. It finds ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MADRID (Reuters) -The top court in Spain's northwestern Galicia region has ordered that authorities stamp out pollution linked to ...
Researchers have found a surprising correlation in Brazil, the U.S. and Germany: areas with more pigs also have higher COVID-19 infection rates. In Brazil, more than 70% of pigs are raised in ...
In a legal first, Spanish citizens have launched court action against national and regional authorities over intensive pig-rearing. The residents say the mismanagement of pollution from decades of ...
A research team has revealed an overlooked climate feedback near intensive livestock farms: ammonia (NH₃) from pig production ...
Danes are set to elect a new national parliament on 24 March, and while Donald Trump’s threats to invade Greenland are keeping geopolitics high on the agenda the much more local issue of how the ...
MADRID — The top court in Spain's northwestern Galicia region has ordered that authorities stamp out pollution linked to intensive pig farming in a landmark case highlighting decades-long ...