Zhulin is a town with a population of 10,000 inhabitants located in the mountainous region of Henan province. Starting in 1985, the town embarked on a programme to eliminate poverty through economic development and the improvement of the living environment. Since the early 1990s, Zhulin has embarked upon a process to bring about more sustainable forms of social, economic and environmental devel...

Urban growth reduces open space in and around cities, impacting biodiversity and ecosystem services. Using land-cover and population data, we examined land consumption and open space loss between 1990 and 2000 for all 274 metropolitan areas in the contiguous United States. Nationally, 1.4 million ha of open space was lost, and the amount lost in a given city was correlated with population growt...

Background: Several vaccines are currently validated for COVID-19 prevention and mass vaccination has already been started in many countries. Nevertheless, it is likely that the development of an efficient therapy reduces severity/mortality would be still important a rather prolonged time, particular, due to new variants SARS-CoV-2. lines emerging evidence suggest green tea catechins such as ep...