
Energy specialists say abandoning net zero and increasing oil and gas drilling would cause more instability for Britons
Abandoning net zero and drilling for more oil and gas in the North Sea would be a massive setback for the UK and would not help the economy, leading experts have said in response to claims by the former prime minister Tony Blair.
“This is a bizarre intervention to make during the worst May heatwave on record and when the Iran crisis is providing yet more evidence of the enormous costs of oil and gas,” said Ed Matthew, the UK programme director at the E3G thinktank. “Clean energy is cheaper energy – it protects our bills from prices skyrocketing, its running costs are virtually zero, and it doesn’t cause climate change which threatens economic collapse... The government should ignore Blair’s ideological nonsense and focus on what works.”
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As summers become hotter, air conditioner sales are booming. If you’re looking to invest, here’s what to consider
When a heatwave struck the UK this week, Jon Connorton, a software developer, began monitoring temperatures inside his east Hampshire terrace house. With some rooms reaching close to 40C, it was time to deploy the air conditioner. “We just wheel it out in emergencies,” he said. “We were having trouble sleeping.”
Connorton and his wife have a portable air conditioner. These plug-in devices cool interior air by removing heat from it and blowing that heat outside, typically via a large hose slung from a window or door.
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Datacentres used 22% of country’s electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests
Energy demand by datacentres in Ireland has added hundreds of euros to household electricity bills in a pattern that could be replicated across Europe, according to a report.
Ireland’s growing number of datacentres last year used 22% of the country’s electricity, more than all urban homes combined, according to the Central Statistics Office. The equivalent figure in the US and UK is 6%.
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Industry figures warn of national security risk and call for ministers to address impact of extreme weather, inflation and Iran war
Britain is “sleepwalking into a food crisis” caused by extreme weather, inflation and the impacts of the Iran war – and the government is failing to take the threat seriously, food experts have said.
Farmers are facing severe strain from the current heatwave following a dry spring, with many crops likely to yield less as temperatures rise beyond their tolerance. Livestock are also suffering heat stress and there is a rising risk of wildfires. Economic losses are likely to be measured in the hundreds of millions of pounds.
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Global temperature record could be broken as soon as 2027, with El Niño expected later this year
A record-breaking hot year is almost certain by 2030 as the climate crisis intensifies, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization has warned.
With an El Niño event expected later this year, the global temperature record could fall as soon as 2027.
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Researchers are working to create new drought-resistant varieties of the ingredient that gives Czech pilsner its character
It is the country that drinks more beer per capita than any other but in the last few years Czechia has been hit by droughts and heatwaves, which make it harder to grow the Saaz hops, one of the key ingredients that goes into the country’s world famous beer.
At the Hop Research Institute, however, scientists are working to create new, climate-resilient hop varieties that have shown promise in overcoming Czechia’s heat and its strict traditionalism.
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The WasteBar food truck hopes the eye-catching deal will change people’s attitude to waste in the Netherlands
Using cigarette butts to buy buttery Dutch pancakes? That is the deal one food truck is offering at festivals in the Netherlands as a way to get people thinking about litter.
Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic waste in the world, with more than 4.5tn butts produced every year. In the Netherlands the estimated figure is in the hundreds of millions.
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In the last century, industrialized farming has killed off delicious food – but a brigade of chefs, breeders and farmers are fighting to bring it back
Bill Tracy is clearly not one to brag, but after a while, it seems he just can’t help himself. “I did come up with something absolutely amazing actually,” he says softly. “Really quite amazing.”
Tracy has spent the last 40 years in the fields of Wisconsin as one of the US’s leading sweetcorn breeders, tasting up to 300 ears a day in search of the perfect corn that might one day sizzle on barbecues across the country.
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With early tests suggesting the presence of crude oil, the Caribbean island has begun to debate whether it could justify becoming a producer
Jamaica is closer than ever to drilling for oil. Tests on samples from the seabed off the Caribbean island’s south coast earlier this year identified hydrocarbons, which suggest the presence of crude oil below ground.
Jamaica imports all its fuel, which costs about $1.5-2bn (£1.1bn-1.5bn) annually, depending on global oil prices. It is a persistent drag on an economy that generated $4.3bn from tourism, its biggest earner, in 2024.
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Joel de Mowbray’s salvage scheme began as a small milk float converted into a logging vehicle – now he’s part of Tipping Point East, a massive site designed to divert valuable waste materials to builders that need it
Joel de Mowbray reached breaking point with UK construction in south London in 2020. He was working on a lovely building project, part of Lambeth council’s scheme to make streets more pedestrian-friendly. De Mowbray was installing a public wooden seating area in an underused stretch of street.
“The council were doing treeworks the entire time we were building, felling trees right next to us,” he says. “But we had to go to Ashdown Forest for our supplies. That felt bonkers to me: they were creating the exact material we needed next to our site.”
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S manje vremena i više posla, kronični umor postao je značajka modernog društva. Međutim, on ne samo da smanjuje kvalitetu života, već predstavlja i društveni problem koji utječe na radnu učinkovitost i dovodi do nesreća. Naizgled, uzrok umora često se pripisuje nedovoljnom odmoru, ali može postojati i drugi temeljni problem - nedostatak pravilne prehrane.
Menstrualni ciklus uključuje ponavljajuće hormonalne, metaboličke i bihevioralne fluktuacije kod osoba reproduktivne dobi. Duljina i varijabilnost ciklusa ključni su pokazatelji ženskog zdravlja, s povećanom varijabilnosti i nepravilnostima povezanima s negativnim menstrualnim simptomima i većim rizikom za dugoročna zdravstvena stanja poput raka, dijabetesa, kardiovaskularnih bolesti, prijeloma i prerane smrtnosti.
Malo kliničko ispitivanje koje su vodili znanstvenici s Dana-Farber Instituta za rak testiralo je ideju Salk Instituta na pacijentima: da aktiviranje receptora vitamina D može pomoći u preoblikovanju zaštitnog okruženja koje okružuje tumore gušterače na načine koji bi mogli učiniti rak, koji je poznat po tome što ga je teško liječiti, osjetljivijim na terapijske tretmane.
Nova studija otkrila je skupinu krvnih proteina koji su promijenjeni kod ljudi koji razviju multiplu sklerozu (MS), u nekim slučajevima više od desetljeća prije dijagnoze. Rezultati daju nadu da bi jednostavan test krvi jednog dana mogao identificirati ljude s visokim rizikom od multiple skleroze na vrijeme kako bi djelovali prije nego što dođe do oštećenja.
Vitiligo je depigmentirajuća bolest koja destruktivno utječe na melanocite i povezana je s imunološkom upalom, pri čemu prehrana potencijalno posreduje u upalnim procesima putem imunološke disregulacije. Međutim, specifična uloga prehrane u patogenezi vitiliga još uvijek nije dovoljno proučena.
Generativna umjetna inteligencija (AI) već danas ima značajan utjecaj na zdravstveni sektor, a prema najnovijem istraživanju Boston Consulting Groupa (BCG), gotovo 60 posto pacijenata već koristi AI za potrebe vezane uz vlastito zdravlje. Istraživanje je provedeno na više od 13.000 ispitanika u 15 zemalja, što ga čini jednim od najopsežnijih globalnih pregleda korištenja umjetne inteligencije u zdravstvu do sada.
Nova predklinička studija otkrila je genetske i stanične adaptivne mehanizme koji potiču rezistenciju na KRAS inhibitore kod pacijenata s kolorektalnim karcinomom s mutacijom KRAS. Ovi rezultati sugeriraju da ciljanje ranih upalnih odgovora dodavanjem blokade TBK1 s inhibicijom KRAS-a može biti obećavajuća kombinirana strategija za prevladavanje rezistencije na liječenje.
Tradicionalno smatrana genetskim poremećajem uzrokovanim mutacijama u genima PKD1 i PKD2, autosomno dominantna policistična bolest bubrega (ADPKD) se sada redefinira prepoznavanjem kronične upale, infiltracije imunoloških stanica i imunoloških signalnih putova kao ključnih čimbenika koji doprinose progresiji bolesti.
Novo objavljeni pregledni članak ističe novu važnost imunoproteasoma u razvoju i napredovanju dijabetesa i njegovih širokog spektra komplikacija, nudeći nove perspektive o budućim terapijskim strategijama. Rezultati pozicioniraju ovaj specijalizirani proteinski kompleks kao ključni regulator upale, metabolizma i staničnog zdravlja.
Nova studija provedena u Italiji otkrila je da post prije i nakon kemoterapije, u usporedbi s redovitom prehranom, može pomoći u smanjenju razine inzulina i može poboljšati odgovor na liječenje kod osoba s visokostupanjskim seroznim rakom jajnika (HGSOC).