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Risk of brain-eating amoeba, flesh-eating bacteria may increase due to climate change: Experts (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Infections are rare, but pathogens and bacteria thrive in warmer waters.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Check this out: https://lemmy.ml/post/63419 climate changes ? right

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Yeah, plastic getting into glaciers are making them melt quicker because the plastics aren't as good at reflecting lightwaves and heat as white snow or ice, heating up the plastic and in turn heating up the ice.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

K this is just spam now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

Why is it spam? Because it's from abc backed by cdc? Or because climate change is fake?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

It's actually pretty interesting