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POZIV NA SKUPŠTINU - NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
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Eco Environment News feeds
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Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show
Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog
Radioactive water from the base that holds the UK’s nuclear bombs was allowed to leak into the sea after old pipes repeatedly burst, official files have revealed.
The radioactive material was released into Loch Long, a sea loch near Glasgow in western Scotland, because the Royal Navy failed to properly maintain a network of 1,500 water pipes on the base, a regulator found.
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‘Brownfields can be rich habitats’: the abandoned oil refinery where wildlife now thrives
Conservationists say Canvey Wick in Essex shows potential for brownfield sites as havens for nature
“You must see this!” Marc Outten shoulders past tangles of blackthorn and shimmies around hummocks of blackberries the size of buses and glades filled with wildflowers. What beautiful wildlife spectacle awaits?
Weaving across carpets of bird’s foot trefoil, we reach our destination: a vast, barren circle of asphalt, 70 metres across – the ruins of an uncompleted oil refinery.
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‘The ocean is spitting our rubbish back’: Italy’s museum of plastic pollution
Faded items dating back to 1950s have been found on Italian beaches, underscoring plastic’s problematic longevity
Enzo Suma, a naturalist guide, has always picked up rubbish during his walks along Carovigno beach, a stretch of coastline lapped by clear blue waters close to his home in Salento, an area of Puglia in the heel of Italy’s boot.
During one walk, Suma, 44, spotted a washed-up bottle of Ambre Solaire sunscreen. He was about to throw it away when he noticed something unusual: the price printed on the bottle was in lire, meaning it must have been produced before the euro replaced the lira in Italy.
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‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling
US Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the US
The Trump administration’s plan to expand oil and gas drilling in a 23m acre reserve on the Arctic Ocean is sparking an impassioned response, amid fears it threatens Arctic wildlife, undermines the subsistence rights of Alaska Natives and imperils one of the fastest-warming ecosystems on Earth.
More than a quarter of a million people have responded to the 2 June proposal from the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to roll back protections on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), the largest tract of public land in the US.
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Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies
People’s connection to nature has declined by more than 60% since 1800, almost exactly mirroring the disappearance of nature words such as river, moss and blossom from books, according to a study.
Computer modelling predicts that levels of nature connectedness will continue to decline unless there are far-reaching policy and societal changes – with introducing children to nature at a young age and radically greening urban environments the most effective interventions.
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Cool Britannia: the heat pumps keeping pace with the UK’s wild weather
Air-to-air systems can warm homes in winter and cool them in summer – and they’re now set to join the low-carbon grant scheme
When David Tester, 56, installed a heat pump in his home in the winter of 2022, freezing temperatures descended on the country alongside a series of named storms. It was a world away from this summer’s heatwaves, which have pushed Britain to the brink of drought.
But Tester’s choice of heat pump design has meant that his three-bedroom 1930s semi in West Sussex has remained at a comfortable temperature despite Britain’s increasingly volatile weather. The air-to-air heat pump provides heating in the winter but acts like an air conditioner in the summer months.
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Brazil’s president signs environmental ‘devastation bill’ but vetoes key articles
Campaigners had urged Lula to veto the bill entirely, but many have welcomed his alterations
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has signed into law a controversial bill that scientists and environmentalists had dubbed the “devastation bill”, but vetoed key articles that would have in effect dismantled the country’s environmental licensing system.
On Friday, the final day to either sanction or veto the law, Lula struck down or amended 63 of the 398 provisions in a bill that, as approved by congress last month, had been regarded as the most significant setback to Brazil’s environmental protections in four decades.
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Climate change is killing fireflies – threatening a US summer ritual
Scientists say lightning bugs are having a revival this year – but they’re concerned about the insects’ long-term viability
Max Vogel, a 29-year-old public defense attorney, was picnicking with friends in early August at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York, when he noticed flashes of light appear in the air around him.
They were fireflies, bioluminescent insects that the Washington DC native had not seen while living in Oregon, where there are few, if any. For many Americans who live where fireflies do, their flashing lights at dusk are a tangible rite of summer – though one that may now be under threat.
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The lethal legacy of Aukus nuclear submarines will remain for millennia – and there’s no plan to deal with it
Australia’s future nuclear submarines will produce highly radioactive waste, and allies in the UK and the US still don’t have a safe place to store their own
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In the cold deep waters of Rosyth Harbour lie the dormant hulks of Britain’s decommissioned nuclear submarines.
One of the shells lashed to the dock here is HMS Dreadnought, Britain’s first nuclear-powered submarine. It was commissioned in 1963, retired in 1980, and has spent decades longer tied to a harbour than it ever did in service. The spent nuclear fuel removed from its reactor remains in temporary storage.
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OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models
Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost
In mid-2023, if a user asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT for a recipe for artichoke pasta or instructions on how to make a ritual offering to the ancient Canaanite deity Moloch, its response might have taken – very roughly – 2 watt-hours, or about as much electricity as an incandescent bulb consumes in 2 minutes.
OpenAI released a model on Thursday that will underpin the popular chatbot – GPT-5. Ask that version of the AI for an artichoke recipe, and the same amount of pasta-related text could take several times – even 20 times – that amount of energy, experts say.
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Eco Health News feeds
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A walk-in fishermen's clinic saved Tom from sepsis - and could transform the NHS
Tom Parker was treated in one of 70 harbour health clinics after breaking his fibula fishing at sea.
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Daily weight loss pill could help patients lose 12% of body weight
Trials of a daily obesity pill showed patients lost about 12% of their body weight over 72 weeks.
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Licences needed for Botox clinics in cosmetics crackdown
The government plans to crack down on dodgy cosmetic practitioners in England who exploit people and cause harm.
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I have complex PTSD but waiting list means I've only seen psychiatrist once in 10 years
Twelve times more mental health patients are waiting more than 18 months for treatment than those with physical health conditions in England, data analysis shows.
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Extra-strong nicotine pouches packaged like children's sweets
Nicotine products designed to appeal to children are being openly sold in shops in Scotland.
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Could RFK Jr's move to pull mRNA vaccine funding be a huge miscalculation?
The US is withdrawing $500m for vaccines for diseases like flu and Covid. Health correspondent James Gallagher asks if it's the right call.
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Union and government to restart talks on ending doctor dispute
BMA says there is window of opportunity in coming weeks to reach a settlement after 12 strikes.
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Doctors' union agrees to resume talks with Streeting
But the health secretary says he will not negotiate on pay, adding that the union has lost goodwill with their five-day walkout.
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The doctor strike has ended - what comes next?
With doctors returning to work after five-day walkout, is there an opportunity for talks to re-start?
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Boost our pay or risk strike action, warn nurse leaders
Royal College of Nursing wants urgent talks on way NHS contract works, warning nurses feel undervalued.
Eco Nature News feeds
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Where Andes meet Amazon, a new ‘lifeline’ for wildlife
As global temperatures rise, wildlife around the world are on the move, a new protected corridor in one of the planet’s most biodiverse countries aims to help.
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Is there a better way to farm shrimp? A new project says yes
The world’s appetite for shrimp has surged — and environmental destruction has followed in its wake. A new program from Conservation International has a solution.
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An uprooted people, a legacy of conservation
A new Conservation International study is shedding light on an unsung group and their relationship with nature.
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Can AI help protect nature?
Despite risks, AI has ‘enormous potential’ for good, a Conservation International expert says.
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5 things you didn’t know about sea-level rise
It’s indisputable: Around the world, seas are rising at a faster rate than at any time in recorded history. But there’s more to this story than you might realize.
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A climate ally needs support — but at what cost?
A Conservation International study finds key detail on restoring the world’s mangroves: a price tag.
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Can a new paper defuse climate infighting?
To fix climate, all the tools need to be on the table, experts say.
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Can Mongolia’s oldest traditions survive a changing climate?
For thousands of years, Mongolian nomads have herded across the country’s vast steppe grassland. But as Mongolia warms more than three times faster than the global average, their future is in question.
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New protected area a win for Amazonian wildlife, people
After more than a decade of work led by Indigenous communities, one of the most unique corners of Amazonia has been officially protected by the Peruvian government.
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To save a dying forest, this town dug in
Years ago, construction of a road cut off the flow of water to a mangrove forest in Mexico, depriving these coast-hugging trees of what they need to thrive and proving deadly for wildlife. But look closely today, and signs of life are beginning to reappear.