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Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?
During Cop30 negotiations in Brazil last year, delegates heard a familiar argument: rising emissions are unavoidable for countries pursuing growth.
Since the first Cop in the 1990s, developing nations have had looser reduction targets to reflect the economic gap between them and richer countries, which emitted millions of tonnes of CO2 as they pulled ahead. The concession comes from the idea that an inevitable cost of prosperity is environmental harm.
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Cullernose Point, Northumberland: These cliffs are always thrilling, but today is a riot of sound and damp air as we take the coastal path
The sea is still raging after yesterday’s storm, waves the highest that I’ve seen here, more ocean than North Sea. The grey-green water, full of churned up sand, is frothing and erupting against dark rocks, bursting with the force of geysers as it collides with the land.
Here at Cullernose Point, the dolerite cliffs of the Whin Sill thrust a giant wedge as they taper into the sea. It’s dramatic at all times, but today is especially thrilling, the sound all enveloping, the wind cutting, the air damp with spume.
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Community organiser Jon Barrett says event, inspired by the tradition Solmōnaþ, aims to reconnect people with benefits of mud
A misty, rainy day in the uplands of Somerset and the mud was thick and sticky. In some patches, just putting one foot in front of the other without plunging into the mire felt like a win.
But Jon Barrett, a community engagement officer for the Quantock Hills national landscape, had a broad grin on his face as he negotiated the ooze.
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Providers report rise in demand as companies seek mental health benefits and increased sense of community
In a growing number of workplaces, the soundtrack of the lunch break is no longer the rustle of sandwiches at a desk, but the quiet hum of bees – housed just outside the office window.
Employers from Manchester to Milton Keynes are working with professional beekeepers to install hives on rooftops, in courtyards and car parks – positioning beekeeping not as a novelty but as a way to ease stress, build community and reconnect workers with nature in an era of hybrid work and burnout.
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NFU warn it could take years to restore Brexit losses despite efforts to smooth negotiations on farming and other elements of UK-EU reset
Exports of British farm products to the EU have dropped almost 40% in the five years since Brexit, highlighting the trade barriers caused by the UK’s divorce from the EU in 2020.
Analysis of HMRC data by the National Farmers’ Union shows the decline in sales of everything from British beef to cheddar cheese has dropped by 37.4% in the five years since 2019, the last full year before Brexit.
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One expert says 2027 could be even hotter than the last three years, which have been the top three warmest on record
Weather agencies and climate scientists have pointed to the possibility of an El Niño forming in the Pacific Ocean later this year – a phenomenon that could push global temperatures to all-time record highs in 2027.
Both the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology have said some climate models are forecasting an El Niño but both cautioned those results came with uncertainties.
Experts told the Guardian it was too early to be confident, but there were signals in the spread of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific that suggested an El Niño could form in 2026.
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Mergers and acquisitions will shrink number of operators from more than 100 to five or six, says Be.EV co-founder
British electric charger companies are asking rivals to buy them as they run out of cash amid rising costs and intense competition, according to industry bosses.
A wave of mergers and acquisitions is likely to shrink the number of charge point operators from as many as 150 to a market dominated by five or six players, said Asif Ghafoor, a co-founder of Be.EV, a charging company backed by an investment fund owned by Octopus Energy.
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Forty-odd residents of Clydach Terrace in Ynysybwl, south Wales, relieved by council buyout after years in fear of fast flooding
When Storm Dennis hit the UK in 2020, a wall of dirty, frigid water from a tributary of the Taff threw Paul Thomas against the front of his house in the south Wales village of Ynysybwl. He managed to swim back into his home before the storm surge changed direction, almost carrying him out of the smashed-in front door.
“I was holding on to downpipes to stop myself being dragged out again. It was unbelievably strong, the water,” he said.
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People in Niscemi struggle to comprehend loss of homes and businesses and feel disaster could have been avoided
For days, the 25,000 residents of the Sicilian town of Niscemi have been living on the edge of a 25-metre abyss. On 25 January, after torrential rain brought by Cyclone Harry, a devastating landslide ripped away an entire slope of the town, creating a 4km-long chasm. Roads collapsed, cars were swallowed, and whole sections of the urban fabric plunged into the valley below.
Dozens of houses hang precariously over the edge of the landslide, while vehicles and fragments of roadway continue to give way, hour by hour, under the strain of unstable ground.
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Experts say dangerous sleep apnoea affects an estimated 8 million in the UK alone, and everything from evolution to obesity or even the climate crisis could be to blame
When Matt Hillier was in his 20s, he went camping with a friend who was a nurse. In the morning she told him she had been shocked by the snoring coming from his tent. “She basically said, ‘For a 25-year-old non-smoker who’s quite skinny, you snore pretty loudly,’” says Hiller, now 32.
Perhaps because of the pervasive image of a “typical” sleep apnoea patient – older, and overweight – Hillier didn’t seek help. It wasn’t until he was 30 that he finally went to a doctor after waking up from a particularly big night of snoring with a racing heartbeat. Despite being young, active and a healthy weight, further investigation – including a night recording his snoring – revealed that he had moderate sleep apnoea. His was classed as supine, the most common form of the condition, meaning it happens when he sleeps on his back, and is likely caused by his throat muscles.
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Skupina lijekova koji se često koriste za liječenje dijabetesa također može pomoći u zaštiti bubrega koji stare, tvrdi nova studija. Naime, nedavno objavljena studija je testirala lijekove nazvane SGLT2 inhibitori kod afričke tirkizne killifish, male ribe koja živi samo 4 do 6 mjeseci. Budući da ribe tako brzo stare, znanstvenici su mogli promatrati ekvivalent desetljeća starenja organa u samo nekoliko tjedana. Rezultati su pokazali da ribe kojima su davani spomenuti lijekovi imaju zdravije bubrege kako stare.
Nova studija sugerira da bi tjelesna aktivnost nakon liječenja poremećaja srčanog ritma znanog kao fibrilacija atrija mogla značajno smanjiti rizik od povratka atrijske fibrilacije (AF), nudeći pacijentima jednostavan i jeftin način podrške dugoročnom zdravlju srca.
Eksperimentalnii lijek protiv zgrušavanja, asundeksian, pokazao je smanjenje rizika od drugog ishemijskog moždanog udara bez izazivanja zabrinutosti zbog krvarenja, tvrde preliminarni rezultati studije. Asundeksian ima potencijal dugoročno smanjiti rizik od ponovnog moždanog udara bez povećanog sigurnosnog rizika, što predstavlja veliki napredak u sposobnosti sprječavanja moždanih udara kod ljudi s rizikom od ponovnog pojavljivanja moždanog udara.
Novo istraživanje sugerira da jetra igra prethodno neprepoznatu ulogu u zdravlju kostiju, ali samo kod muškaraca. Naime, otkriveno je da protein koji se proizvodi u jetri pomaže u regulaciji rasta kostiju kod mužjaka miševa, ali ne i kod ženki. Rezultati bi mogli pomoći objasniti zašto muškarci s bolestima jetre imaju veću vjerojatnost gubitka koštane mase.
U SAD-u će jedna od osam žena oboljeti od raka dojke tijekom života, a otprilike polovica njih će imati mastektomiju. Mnoge od tih žena odlučuju se za kiruršku rekonstrukciju dojki, najčešće implantatima, ali relativno visok postotak razvija infekcije nakon operacije, što zahtijeva intravenske antibiotike i često uklanjanje implantata. To može dovesti do dodatnih operacija, kašnjenja u liječenju raka i povećanih troškova, kao i dodatne emocionalne nevolje za žene koje su već pod pritiskom dijagnoze i liječenja raka.
Američki znanstvenici osporavaju ideju da disleksija, ili specifični poremećaj čitanja, proizlazi iz jednog neispravnog gena u mozgu, sugerirajući umjesto toga da je uzrokovana ukupnom ranjivošću moždane mreže. Ovaj uvid mijenja razumijevanje jednog od najčešćih poremećaja učenja na svijetu, koji pogađa do 20% svjetske populacije - gotovo 780 milijuna ljudi koji se suočavaju s cjeloživotnim izazovima s čitanjem.
Parkinsonova bolest je progresivni neurodegenerativni poremećaj koji pogađa više od milijun ljudi u SAD-u, s otprilike 90.000 novih slučajeva dijagnosticiranih svake godine. Iako dostupni tretmani mogu pomoći u upravljanju simptomima, trenutno ne postoji lijek ili terapija za koju je dokazano da usporava napredovanje bolesti.
Osobe s ulceroznim proktitisom, blažim i ograničenijim oblikom ulceroznog kolitisa, nemaju veći rizik od razvoja raka rektuma od opće populacije, tvrde rezultati švedske studije. Smatra se, da ovo otkriće može doprinijeti individualiziranijem praćenju pacijenata s upalnom bolešću crijeva.
Pridržavanje mediteranske prehrane povezano je s nižim rizikom od svih vrsta moždanog udara među ženama, tvrdi nova studija. Valja istaknuti, da studija ne dokazuje da je mediteranska prehrana uzrok nižeg rizika od moždanog udara; samo pokazuje povezanost.
Testiranje menstrualne krvi na humani papiloma virus (HPV) moglo bi biti dobra alternativa ili zamjena za trenutni probir raka vrata maternice koji provode kliničari, otkriva nova studija. Naime, korištenje menstrualne krvi za testiranje na HPV je praktično i neinvazivno, što ženama omogućuje prikupljanje uzoraka kod kuće, te bi stoga moglo ponuditi praktičan put za proširenje pristupa probiru.
