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The paper highlights the interconnectedness of public health crises, such as pandemics, with biodiversity loss and climate change, as increased demand for materials to combat infectious diseases exacerbates environmental pressures, posing a threat to global sustainability and biodiversity.

This paper supports SDGs 3 and 15 by examining environmental exposures and risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in early life in a Danish cohort. The study found that increased agricultural land use was associated with a higher risk of Crohn's disease, while increased biodiversity and green space were associated with a lower risk of Crohn's disease. These findings may have implications for IBD prevention.

This review paper highlights the significance of rewilding using reptiles for the purpose of ecological restoration and it outline the consequences for reptilian rewilding under climate change.

This study aimed to assess the associations of both serum vitamin D status and supplementation with all-cause dementia, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and vascular dementia (VD) incidence. It highlighted consistent associations between various facets of vitamin D and multivitamin intake, objectively measured vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency from blood samples, and 14-year dementia incidence in a study population aged 55 to 69 years at baseline. Subgroup analyses revealed effect modification by skin color with associations only observed in the non-brown/non-black skin color group and stronger effect estimates for vitamin D supplementation in younger compared to older study participants. Although results are encouraging and suggest a potential role for vitamin D supplementation in dementia prevention, particularly for those with vitamin D deficiency, caution is advised due to the observational nature of this study. RCTs with long follow-up periods are indispensable to establishing the efficacy of dementia prevention strategies.