Climate change, socio-political changes and emerging pandemics

Climate changes and emerging fungal infections

Background: Candida auris is a globally emerging yeast pathogen that has shown not only resistance to most anti-fungal drugs but also thermo-tolerance to temperatures higher than the mammalian’s body temperature. Although it has been only a decade since the fungus was identified, its spread of infections has been rapid and quasi-epidemics have been reported. Co-occurrences of the fungus infecti...

It’s Political: How the Salience of One’s Political Identity Changes Climate Change Beliefs and Policy Support

Climate change: the political situation.

The uncertainties of climate predictions are estimated to be ϳ50%, excluding instabilities of the climate system that could yield substantially larger changes, for example, through the collapse of the Gulf Stream and deep ocean circulation system, a break-off of the West Antarctic ice sheet, or the release of methane presently frozen in permafrost regions. 23. Examples are tradable renewable en...

Climate change and emerging infectious diseases.

The ranges of infectious diseases and vectors are changing in altitude, along with shifts in plant communities and the retreat of alpine glaciers. Additionally, extreme weather events create conditions conducive to clusters of insect-, rodent- and water-borne diseases. Accelerating climate change carries profound threats for public health and society.

The Impact of Translation in Emerging Iran’s Political–Religious Intellectual Discourses and Socio-Cultural Changes (From Early Qajar Dynasty to the End of Reza Shah Era)

Wide-ranging sociological studies have been conducted on the history of Iranian intellectuality and modernism. The findings jointly acknowledge that due to communication with the West and following the effects that was received from modernism, the first generation of Iranian intellectualism was emerged. It is said that having benefited from the translated works in its general concept, i.e. incl...