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Most people don't think much about stethoscopes but the fact is that this tool, so commonly associated with doctors, is at a crossroads. Having been in use for nearly two centuries, the stethoscope is during a debate with respect to its utility in healthcare. 

For animals, reproduction is a biological imperative, an instinct to pass their genetics onto the next generation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message

 Natural habitats are facing mounting environmental challenges due to human activities such as land use changes, exploitation and climate change. 

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While air quality has improved dramatically over the past 50 years thanks in part to the Clean Air Act, people of color at every income level in the United States are still exposed to higher-than-average levels of air pollution.

Parasite spread has been implicated as a major driver of bee population decline.

Regenerative agriculture is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems. It focuses on topsoil regeneration, increasing biodiversity, improving the water cycle, enhancing ecosystem services, supporting bio-sequestration, increasing resilience to climate change, and strengthening the health and vitality of farm soil.

The combustion of fossil fuels is often (rightly) regarded as the chief source of many negative environmental consequences, such as the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and climate change. However, recent computer models have suggested that even if all combustion of oil, coal and gas was to cease tomorrow, global warming would still exceed the 1.5°C threshold agreed upon at the Paris climate summit in 2015.