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PM visits Jelsa

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Prime Minister Zoran Milanović paid a flying visit to Jelsa on Shrove Tuesday, February 17th 2015.

Prime Minister Milanović speaking to the Press
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Jelsa's Talented Young Artists

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Museum Night in Jelsa on January 30th 2015 was a showcase of Jelsa's young talent.

Jelsa's Talented Young Artists
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Christmas in Pitve

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Midnight Mass comes early in Pitve, as there are too few priests on Hvar to celebrate every Mass in every working church.

Christmas in Pitve
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Christmas and New Year run-up in Jelsa

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Jelsa's children enjoyed evenings and days of fun in the run-up to Christmas and beyond. 

Jelsa's Christmas tree arriving
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'Prostitute Palm' Reprieved

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Good news for Vrboska's iconic palm at the end of 2014.

The Škojić palm, September 2014
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St. Nicholas and St. Lucy in Stari Grad

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Christmas on Hvar is very different from the festive season on the mainland.

Advent candles
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London Lecture on Diocletian's Palace

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Dr.Radoslav Bužančić's London lecture entitled ‘Diocletian’s Palace in Split: New Discoveries’ aroused great interest among experts in archaeology, architecture, history of art, museology and the protection of cultural monuments and heritage.

London Lecture on Diocletian's Palace
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EC Response on Adriatic Oil Drilling

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In response to a request from Hvar's registered charity Dignitea, the EC has sent a full explanation of the regulations which should be applied to the proposed oil and gas drilling in the Adriatic.

EC Response on Adriatic Oil Drilling
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Jelsa's School for Talent

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Jelsa's elementary school (Osnovna škola) encourages young talent, and is producing generations of highly skilled creative pupils.

Jelsa's School for Talent
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  • Divide over fossil fuels phaseout can be bridged, Cop30 president says

    Exclusive: André Corrêa do Lago says rise of clean energy must be acknowledged and rich countries need to do more

    Oil-producing countries need to acknowledge the rise of clean energy, and rich countries will have to provide more assurances on finance if the chasm between negotiating nations at Cop30 is to be bridged, the president of the summit has said.

    André Corrêa do Lago, the veteran Brazilian climate diplomat in charge of the talks, said: “Developing countries are looking at developed countries as countries that could be much more generous in supporting them to be more sustainable. They could offer more finance, and technology.”

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  • ‘We sent the kids home. Then all our cellphones went out’ – This is climate breakdown

    When the Maui fires ripped through Hawaii, the community came together. For everyone it was a life-changing experience. This is Ryan’s story

    Location Maui, Hawaii, United States

    Disaster Maui wildfires, 2023

    Ryan Kirkham had been the principal at Mauipreparatoryschool for13 years when the Maui wildfires ignited in 2023, killing 102 people in Lahaina and costing almost $3.3bn in insured damages. Climate change is increasing the severity of droughts in the Hawaiian Islands, which correlates with an increased likelihood of wildfires.

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  • Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds

    Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries

    This article is co-published with ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.

    New advances in environmental science are providing a detailed understanding of the human cost of the Trump administration’s approach to climate.

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  • Mountain of waste dumped in Oxfordshire field contains rubbish from councils

    Evidence of waste from primary schools and local authorities in south-east England points to possible large-scale corruption, expert says

    Waste from local authorities in the south-east is among the vast mound of rubbish dumped illegally next to a river in Oxfordshire, it can be revealed.

    The finding provides evidence of possible large-scale corruption in waste management, a legal expert has warned.

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  • Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?

    The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry

    It is 8pm on a Saturday evening and eight of us are sitting at a table onboard a ship, holding on to our plates of spaghetti carbonara as our chairs slide back and forth. Michel Péry, the dinner’s host, downplays the weather as a “tempête de journalistes” –something sailors would not categorise as a storm, but which drama-seeking journalists might refer to as such to entertain their readers.

    But after a white-knuckle night in our cabins with winds reaching 74mph or force 12 – officially a hurricane – Péry has to admit it was not just a “journalists’ storm”, but the real deal.

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  • Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows

    Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage

    Some of the first homes in the UK designed to meet new building standards put less pressure on the electricity grid than expected, a study has found.

    The all-electric properties in Handsworth, Birmingham, have heat pumps, which use electricity to provide heat rather than oil or gas.

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  • Country diary: The green in this gully has conquered all | Derek Niemann

    Frome, Somerset: The dampness lingers here, and there is no wind – perfect conditions for a total victory for fern, ivy, and, most of all, moss

    Outside this secluded world, autumn turns and falls in yellow, gold and brown. Here, we walk through a different colour palette. Here, as the trees strip themselves bare, the gorge’s gorgeous greens have come to the fore.

    There is ivy, of course there is ivy, thick-leaved, stealing long ago over unclaimed ground, shinning up trees, bunching over overhanging banks. But ivy tends to be overlooked and ignored in the vale, such is the lushness and visual impact of two other groups of plants.

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  • Can Cop30 begin the process of phasing out fossil fuels?

    Ending use of coal, oil and gas is essential in tackling climate crisis – but even talking about it is controversial

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  • Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?

    Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions

    “It broke my heart.” Surangel Whipps, president of the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, was sitting in the front row of the UN’s general assembly in New York when Donald Trump made a long and rambling speech, his first to the UN since his re-election, on 23 September.

    Whipps was prepared for fury and bombast from the US president, but what followed was shocking. Trump’s rant on the climate crisis – a “green scam”, “the greatest con job ever perpetrated”, “predictions made by stupid people” – was an unprecedented attack on science and global action from a major world leader.

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  • Lula’s balancing act: Cop30 Amazon summit juggles climate and social priorities

    Brazil’s president welcomes world leaders while navigating divided government, promising action on deforestation and emissions

    Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has welcomed world leaders to Belém for the first climate summit in the Amazon, where conservationists hope he can be a champion for the rainforest and its people.

    But with a divided administration, a hostile Congress and 20th-century developmentalist instincts, this global figurehead of the centre left has a balancing act to perform in advocating protection of nature and a reduction of emissions.

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