Ebola and Other Diseases: The role of Climate Change and Deforestation

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This week the World Health Organisation described the current Ebola outbreak as ‘the most severe acute health emergency in modern times’, with the epidemic now killing more people than all previous Ebola outbreaks combined.

Whilst epidemics on this scale are thankfully rare, there are increasing fears that our burgeoning population, warming climate and rapid urbanisation of previously forested land has already increased the pace in which deadly diseases can infect and spread amongst humans. As deforestation and climate change look set to get worse before they get better, are we facing a future of greater risk from global disease?

5 Ways to Geoengineer Earth's Climate

Artificially changing one of natures most complicated and global systems may sound like something out of science fiction, but geoengineering Earth's climate system is becoming increasingly likely to play a part in remediating anthropogenic climate change. Geoengineering also promotes one of the benefits of climate change; a chance to explore the innovation and new technologies that come alongside each new problem faced by humanity. With this in mind, here's a run down of some geoengineering projects that have been proposed to counter climate change: