"Our destruction of nature has contributed to the outbreak of this virus"

Confronting Coronavirus

In today’s episode we hear from Jane Stout, a professor with the school of natural sciences at Trinity College Dublin. As an ecologist, Jane explores the link between the climate change crisis, global biodiversity loss and the increasing frequency of disease outbreaks across the world. So how has human interference in the natural world contributed to the pandemic and is this just the tip of the iceberg?