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Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms
A leading UN expert is calling for criminal penalties against those peddling disinformation about the climate crisisand a total ban on fossil fuel industry lobbying and advertising, as part of a radical shake-up to safeguard human rights and curtail planetary catastrophe.
Elisa Morgera, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change who presents her damning new report to the general assembly in Geneva on Monday, argues that the US, UK, Canada, Australia and other wealthy fossil fuel nations are legally obliged under international law to fully phase out oil, gas and coal by 2030 – and compensate communities for harms caused.
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Authorities in Spain, Portugal, Greece and France issue extreme heat, wildfire and health warnings
Authorities across Europe are on alert as the first heatwave of the summer pushes temperatures up to 42C (107.6F), as the fastest-warming continent continues to suffer the effects of the climate emergency.
Spain’s state meteorological office, Aemet, issued a special heat warning on Friday, saying temperatures could reach 42C in some southern areas of the country over the coming days.
Agence France-Presse and Associated Press contributed to this report
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Swarms in South Korean capital trigger heated debate over pest control as experts say rising temperatures partly to blame
Seoul residents are grappling with an invasion of so-called “lovebugs” that have swarmed hiking trails and urban areas across the South Korean capital, with experts debating how to handle the infestations that are surging as the climate crisis draws them further north.
Viral footage shared on social media shows Gyeyangsan mountain in Incheon, west of Seoul, with hiking trails and observation decks carpeted black with the insects.
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Canford Heath, Dorset: Their UK numbers have thankfully recovered from near extinction in the 1960s, but that doesn’t make them any easier to spot
The constant droning of the nearby road fights against the increasing wind gusts as I venture further on to the heath. As sirens blast out in the town below, stonechats zip from gorse bush to gorse bush, and southern wood ants, otherwise known as red wood ants, rampage across the sandy paths.
It’s an overcast but mild day. I’ve decided to come for an afternoon walk at Canford Heath nature reserve near Poole in Dorset. The site covers more than 344 hectares (approximately 850 acres) – one of the largest remaining heaths in Dorset. UK lowland heathland is an incredibly important habitat, now rarer than tropical rainforest due to its degradation and destruction, with only about 16% left of the area that existed in 1800.
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Proposals would enable Britons to save on energy bills and join millions of people in Europe who use ‘plug-in’ panels
Those living in flats or rented homes in the UK could soon plug in their own “balcony solar panels” to save on their energy bills under plans set out in the government’s solar power strategy.
The proposals could mean that British households that are unable to install rooftop solar panels will soon join millions of people across Europe who generate their own electricity with “plug-in” panels.
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Negotiators doubt countries’ financial and environmental commitment as military and trade wars divert attention
“Climate is our biggest war. Climate is here for the next 100 years. We need to focus and … not allow those [other] wars to take our attention away from the bigger fight that we need to have.”
Ana Toni, the chief executive of Cop30, the UN climate summit to be held in Brazil this November, is worried. With only four months before the crucial global summit, the world’s response to the climate crisis is in limbo.
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Guardian investigation sheds light on private intelligence industry that runs covert surveillance operations
Wildlife activists who exposed horrific conditions at Scottish salmon farms were subjected to “Big Brother” surveillance by spies for hire working for an elite British army veteran.
One of the activists believes he was with his young daughter on at least one of the occasions when he was followed and photographed by the former paratrooper Damian Ozenbrook’s operatives.
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Renewable energy and critical minerals projects often want to mine on sacred lands but minority groups are fighting back through the courts
Located in Wikieup, Arizona, at the meeting point of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts, H’a’Kamwe’ has for centuries had sacred significance for the Hualapai tribe. They regard the hot spring, fed by water naturally stored underground in volcanic rocks, as a place for healing that symbolises their connection to the land.
So when an Australian mining company announced plans to begin exploratory drilling for lithium at 100 locations on Hualapai land, including as close as just 700 metres from H’a’Kamwe’, they regarded it as a potential desecration.
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In one of the world’s ‘hottest hotspots’ of biodiversity, an all-female team have turned a patch of forest into a haven for orchids, ferns, succulents and carnivorous plants
The previous night’s heavy rainstorm had brought down several large trees in the forest and broken branches were strewn about the ground. Walking through the felled trees, Laly Joseph spotted an orchid clinging to one of the snapped boughs. She gently secured the plant and carefully transplanted it on to a standing tree.
At the Gurukula botanical sanctuary, where Joseph, 56, is head of plant conservation and the most experienced “rainforest gardener”, every plant is considered precious and an all-female team strives to give them the best chance of surviving an increasingly harsh climate.
Laly Joseph, the head of plant conservation at Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, has spent most of her life learning about and caring for plants.
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Forever chemicals have polluted the water supply of 60,000 people, threatening human health, wildlife and the wider ecosystem. But activists say this is just the tip of the Pfas iceberg
One quiet Saturday night, Sandra Wiedemann was curled up on the sofa when a story broke on TV news: the water coming from her tap could be poisoning her. The 36-year-old, who is breastfeeding her six-month-old son Côme, lives in the quiet French commune of Buschwiller in Saint-Louis, near the Swiss city of Basel. Perched on a hill not far from the Swiss and German borders, it feels like a safe place to raise a child – spacious houses are surrounded by manicured gardens, framed by the wild Jura mountains.
But as she watched the news, this safety felt threatened: Wiedemann and her family use tap water every day, for drinking, brushing her teeth, showering, cooking and washing vegetables. Now, she learned that chemicals she had never heard of were lurking in her body, on her skin, potentially harming her son. “I find it scary,” she says. “Even if we stop drinking it we will be exposed to it and we can’t really do anything.”
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Nova studija otkriva da ostati aktivan nešto više od dva sata tjedno može osobama s predijabetesom vratiti zdravu razinu šećera u krvi, ističući kako vježbanje, težina i kontrola glikemije zajedno utječu na rizik od dijabetesa.
Genska terapija za anemiju srpastih stanica može pomoći u poboljšanju glavnog faktora koji doprinosi riziku od moždanog udara kod pacijenata, izvještava nova studija.
Dijabetes tipa 2 je kronični metabolički poremećaj karakteriziran inzulinskom rezistencijom i poremećenim metabolizmom glukoze, a pogađa znatan dio globalne populacije. Tijekom posljednjih nekoliko desetljeća, brojne studije istraživale su čimbenike načina života, uključujući prehranu i tjelesnu aktivnost, kao preventivne mjere ili dodatne tretmane za dijabetes tipa 2. Među prehrambenim čimbenicima, konzumacija kave privukla je pozornost zbog svog potencijala ublažavanja rizika i napredovanja dijabetesa tipa 2.
Nedavno objavljena studija predstavlja nalaze koji bi mogli dovesti do inovativnog krvnog testa za otkrivanje rizika od razvoja leukemije. Ovaj test bi potencijalno mogao zamijeniti invazivni dijagnostički postupak uzorkovanja koštane srži.
Žene mogu žudjeti i piti više alkohola tijekom određenih razdoblja menstrualnog ciklusa, sugerira nova studija. Naime, pokazalo se, da fluktuacije razine hormona jajnika također mogu utjecati na rizik od prekomjernog pijenja alkohola.
Pacijenti s atrijskom fibrilacijom koji su doživjeli moždani udar imali bi velike koristi od ranijeg liječenja oralnim antikoagulansima, unutar četiri dana od moždanog udara, ukazuje nova studija. Osim toga, rani početak liječenja značajno je smanjio rizik od ponovnog moždanog udara zbog krvarenja ili blokade arterije.
Nova studija objašnjava kako kapsaicin, kemikalija u čili papričicama, preoblikuje crijevne bakterije i utječe na zdravlje, na bolje ili gore, ovisno o dozi, prehrani i jedinstvenoj biologiji pojedinca.
Svakodnevna konzumacija lisnatog zelenog povrća koje je bogato vitaminom K1, mogla bi uvelike pomoći u smanjenju rizika od aterosklerotskih vaskularnih bolesti, pokazuju rezultati nove studije.
Novo istraživanje otkriva da jednom od četiri američke dojenčadi nedostaju ključne crijevne bakterije, što povećava rizik od alergija, ekcema i astme te ističe crijevni mikrobiom kao snažan čimbenik zdravlja u ranom životu.
Koža djeluje kao prva linija obrane tijela od vanjskih prijetnji. Međutim, kako starimo, epiderma postupno postaje tanja i gubi svoju zaštitnu snagu. Oko 90% stanica u ovom sloju su keratinociti, koji potječu iz dubljih slojeva epiderme i migriraju prema gore, u konačnici formirajući zaštitnu barijeru kože.
