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Exclusive: Ministers accused of trying to keep investment firm’s withdrawal from partnership with NatureScot under wraps
A funding deal to raise £100m from private investors for urgently needed nature restoration in Scotland has fallen through without the Scottish parliament being told.
The Guardian has learned that Aberdeen, the investment firm, decided to withdraw from a partnership with the agency NatureScot to raise at least £100m for conservation projects from commercial and private investors late last year.
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The government hails the ‘green revolution’ as a solution to economic decline, but some young jobseekers say the rhetoric does not match their experience
On paper, Jake Snell, 19, sounds like the perfect candidate for a role in the UK’s burgeoning green energy sector. He has high grades in maths and physics A-level, a distinction in BTec engineering and another distinction in an extended engineering diploma. He has also done work experience at an engineering company.
He is from Lowestoft, a coastal town in Suffolk, outside Great Yarmouth. Both towns contain areas that fall within the most deprived 20% in England and are part of a wider pattern of coastal places with low employment opportunities.
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Amid growing evidence of fungi’s key role in ecosystems and storing carbon, mycologists seek greater recognition of the need to preserve ‘funga’ as much as flora and fauna
Madagascar has long been celebrated for its remarkable wildlife, with the vast majority of its species – from ring-tailed lemurs to certain species of baobab trees – found nowhere else on the planet. But when discussing the island nation’s endemic treasures, fungi are often left out of the conversation.
Yet “fungi are some of the most important things in the world”, says Anna Ralaiveloarisoa, a Malagasy scientist. “They feed 90% of terrestrial plants. Without them, there is no life on the Earth.”
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A skull fragment found in a tray of unsorted fossils collected more than a century ago leads to discovery
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A prehistoric fossil, hiding in plain sight in museum storage for more than a century, has revealed that giant echidnas once roamed Victoria.
The Owen’s giant echidna, Megalibgwilia owenii, lived during the Pleistocene, a geological epoch that began 2.5m years ago. It grew to about 1 metre long and weighed up to 15kg – about twice the size of Australia’s modern echidnas.
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Dozens of feral pachyderms linked to drug kingpin to be killed because of threat to native species and villagers
Colombian officials have authorized a plan to cull dozens of hippos descended from animals brought to the country in the 1980s by Pablo Escobar, after the feral beasts displaced native species and threatened local villagers.
The environment minister, Irene Vélez, said the decision was reached because other methods to control their population had been expensive and unsuccessful, including neutering some of the animals or moving them to zoos. Vélez said that up to 80 hippos would be affected by the measure. She did not say when the hunting would begin.
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Ventnor, Isle of Wight: On the hottest day of the year, both a wall lizard and I are having a good bask
Up early for once. The moon’s still there, miraculous white ghost in the clear morning sky. If my eyes were better I might glimpse a capsule containing the four remarkable humans who have travelled further from our planet than anyone in history. With this knowledge, seeing the moon hits differently.
I sit on the terrace, taking in the view. For Easter, this Londoner seeks tranquillity by the sea, and the Ventnor Undercliff – the Isle of Wight’s deep south – ticks both boxes. On a clear day you’ll believe you can see France.
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Male humpback, which has repeatedly stranded and freed itself in Germany in past month, is to be left in peace to die
When a 10-metre long humpback whale became stranded on a sandbar in the Baltic Sea last month, none of those who went to its rescue could have known how it might turn lives and livelihoods upside down.
About a month after the first sighting of the male whale, near Wismar and Timmendorfer Strand on the north German coast, it has repeatedly stranded and freed itselfand is now stranded once more, with rescuers saying it is in the throes of death.
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In Artemisa, the country’s agricultural heartland, sanctions and fuel shortages have made a tough life almost impossible
Abraham Rodríguez stares at the corn furrows he must plough before the end of the day. It is not even noon in Artemisa, Cuba, but the sun beats down hard and he’s already tired: working the land is a tough job. He has done it for almost half his life, since he was 13 and his mother got a divorce. He is turning 26 this year.
Farming has always been hard, he says, but now it is almost impossible to sustain. “I make 1,200 pesos (£1.80) a day, so I have to work two days to buy a bottle of oil.”
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For long a dumping ground for pollutants, the Great Lake is being seeded with sensor buoys to make it the world’s largest digitally connected body of freshwater
There was a time in the 1960s that the lakes and rivers around Cleveland were so polluted with petrochemicals and other contaminants that they frequently caught on fire.
While water quality on Lake Erie today has improved since the days of it being used as a large-scale industrial dumping ground for steel mills and chemical plants, it still struggles with poor water quality.
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Swedish retailer continued to advertise partnership with Soly and failed to offer me any advice
I am one ofmany left thousands of pounds out of pocket after signing upfor solar panels via Ikea’s website late lastyear.
Ikea had partnered with the European installer Soly, and the fact the panels were being advertisedvia such a well-known company gave us confidence.
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Rezultati kliničkog ispitivanja faze 2 koje su osmislili i nadzirali znanstvenici s Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute, pokazuju da ispitivani lijek mezagitamab može učinkovito povećati broj trombocita kod pacijenata s imunom trombocitopenijom (ITP), autoimunom bolešću koju karakterizira povećano uništavanje trombocita i smanjena proizvodnja trombocita, što povećava rizik od krvarenja i ugrožava kvalitetu života.
Rezultati nove studije otkrivaju kako veći broj koraka može suzbiti neke štete dugotrajnog sjedenja, no istovremeno upozoravaju da previše vremena provedenog u sjedenju i dalje nosi trajne rizike za srce. Inače, više od jedne trećine odraslih osoba provodi dulje vrijeme u sjedilačkom ponašanju, iako je to povezano s većim rizikom od kroničnih bolesti i prerane smrti.
Nova studija otkrila je da starije osobe s većim optimizmom imaju manju vjerojatnost da će s vremenom razviti demenciju, što ukazuje na obećavajući psihološki faktor koji bi mogao pomoći u oblikovanju budućih istraživanja zdravog starenja.
Znanstvenici su prvi put koristili najsuvremeniju staničnu terapiju pod nazivom CAR-T za liječenje pacijentice s tri različite autoimune bolesti opasne po život koje su se odupirale godinama liječenja. Pacijentici, kojoj su nekada bile potrebne dnevne infuzije krvi, u remisiji je bez potrebe za dodatnim liječenjem već godinu dana od CAR-T terapije. Izvješće o slučaju sugerira da CAR-T terapije mogu pomoći u liječenju složenih i teških autoimunih bolesti.
Enzim koji proizvodi masti u moždanim stanicama može igrati ključnu ulogu u nastanku oštećenja kod Parkinsonove bolesti i mogao bi ponuditi novu metu za liječenje, ukazuje nova studija.
Konzumiranje kvalitetnije biljne prehrane povezano je s nižim rizikom od Alzheimerove bolesti i drugih srodnih demencija u usporedbi s konzumiranjem manje kvalitetne biljne prehrane, pokazuje nova studija.
Alzheimerova bolest je progresivni neurodegenerativni poremećaj koji polako oštećuje pamćenje, utječe na vještine razmišljanja i na kraju ometa svakodnevno funkcioniranje. To je najčešći uzrok demencije, koja pogađa milijune obitelji diljem svijeta.
Pretilost je poznati faktor rizika za kardiovaskularne bolesti, ali težina ljudi može se mijenjati tijekom vremena, a malo se zna o kumulativnom utjecaju prekomjerne tjelesne težine. Novo istraživanje pokazuje da je dugotrajna izloženost prekomjernoj težini jači prediktor kardiovaskularnog rizika od indeksa tjelesne mase (ITM) u jednom trenutku, s najjačim učinkom kod mlađih osoba.
Poznato je, da je više od 90% slučajeva raka grla uzrokovano humanim papiloma virusom (HPV). Iako ova vrsta raka dobro reagira na liječenje, zračenje i kemoterapija utječu na kvalitetu života pacijenata. Poboljšani biomarkeri mogli bi pomoći da se bolje prilagodi liječenje kako bi se smanjile nepotrebne nuspojave, a istovremeno osiguralo da pacijenti prime terapiju koja im je potrebna.
Prema rezultatima istraživanja provedenog u SAD-u, odrasli u dobi od 80 i više godina s rakom pluća u ranom stadiju mogu se sigurno podvrgnuti operaciji i postići ishode usporedive s mlađim pacijentima, što dovodi u pitanje dugogodišnje pretpostavke o dobi i liječenju raka.
