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‘Nationally significant’ status granted to reservoirs in East Anglia and Lincolnshire with seven more planned by 2050
The government has ordered the building of two reservoirs, the first to be built in England for more than 30 years.
The lack of reservoir capacity, combined with a rising population and drier summers caused by climate breakdown, has put the country at risk of water shortages. The government warned in recent weeks of an impending drought if there was not significant rainfall soon, and reservoirs have been reaching worryingly low levels.
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Exclusive: researchers say defence spending boosts across world will worsen climate crisis which in turn will cause more conflict
A global military buildup poses an existential threat to climate goals, according to researchers who say the rearmament planned by Nato alone could increase greenhouse gas emissions by almost 200m tonnes a year.
With the world embroiled in the highest number of armed conflicts since the second world war, countries have embarked on military spending sprees, collectively totalling a record $2.46tn in 2023.
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A study of Yorkshire’s rivers is helping scientists understand the impact everyday pollutants are having on waterways – and the results are sobering
Photographs by Christopher Thomond
Rivers carry more than just water through Britain’s landscapes. A hidden cocktail of chemicals seeps out of farmland, passes undetected through sewage treatment works, and drains off the roads into the country’s rivers. Normally these chemicals flow through unreported, silently restructuring ecosystems as they go, but now, UK scientists are building a map of what lies within – and the damage it may be causing.
Trailing down the centre of Britain is one river whose chemical makeup scientists know better than any other. The Foss threads its way through North Yorkshire’s forestry plantations, patchworked arable land and small hamlets, before descending into the city of York, passing roads and car parks, gardens replacing farmland. Along the course of its 20-mile (32km) length, the chemical fingerprints of modern life accumulate.
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Exclusive: André Corrêa do Lago says ‘answers have to come from the economy’ as climate policies trigger populist-fuelled backlash
The world is facing a new form of climate denial – not the dismissal of climate science, but a concerted attack on the idea that the economy can be reorganised to fight the crisis, the president of global climate talks has warned.
André Corrêa do Lago, the veteran Brazilian diplomat who will direct this year’s UN summit, Cop30, believes his biggest job will be to counter the attempt from some vested interests to prevent climate policies aimed at shifting the global economy to a low-carbon footing.
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Campaign has raised more than £114m since 1965 to protect sites such as Wembury Point in Devon
Wembury Point has a colourful history. During the 20th century it was transformed from a farm into a bustling holiday camp and then converted into a military radar station and Royal Navy gunnery.
But the last 20 years have been a little gentler as it has returned to nature, a haven for rare flora and fauna and a hugely popular spot for walkers, wild swimmers and rock-poolers.
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Once almost hunted to extinction, they need clean, pebbly rivers and a good population of trout and salmon to survive
The freshwater pearl mussel, Margaritifera margaritifera, is our longest lived freshwater species, often exceeding 100 years, and sadly among the rarest. The species was almost hunted to extinction for the pearls they occasionally contained, and is now threatened because the clean, pebbly rivers they live in are disappearing.
Swedish research into the much larger populations of mussels in Scandinavia show they can live to 280 years and play a vital role in moderating river flow. They stick out of the riverbed, enabling small trout to thrive by reducing river flow, and they clean the water by filtering out filth.
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Bideford, Devon: Once picked for garlands, today this quiet treasure is best left where it is as it becomes scarcer
I glimpse a lilac in the green. A hushed colour that suits the early hour. This common milkwort amid the grass is delicate and slight. The flower has an unusual structure, with an outer set of green sepals and an inner set of wing-like purple ones enclosing the tubular fused petals. The effect is intricate and poised, as if the bloom has landed for a moment in the grass but is equally capable of taking flight. Still holding the morning’s dew, it is ephemeral, light.
The blooms can also be found in blue, pink or white – leading to another of the plant’s names, “four sisters”, for the four possible colours – but here it is a pale purple accent in the green. A number of its other common names reveal a past use in Christian processions – “rogation flower,” “cross flower”, “Christ’s herb”. Then it was picked for garlands, but today it is better left where it is. While locally frequent and widespread in grasslands, particularly those with chalky soils, and in terrains including cliffs and rock outcrops, verges and alkaline-to-neutral fens, this “common” milkwort has become rarer as agricultural intensification has reduced and degraded its habitats.
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As the price of the precious metal soars to record levels, underground gunfights have erupted in the Andean region of Pataz as the mines’ riches draw in brutal crime cartels
Deep in the mountains of northern Peru, a bloody war is being fought over gold. As its international price sets successive record highs above $3,000 (£2,220) an ounce, criminal gangs, illegal miners and established mining companies battle over the metal.
The conflict is not fought out in the open but in a maze of tunnels that stretch for miles inside the mountains of Pataz, a gold-rich Andean province about 130 miles (200km) inland from Peru’s third city, Trujillo. In early May, the bodies of 13 security workers were found shot dead, their hands bound and some showing signs of torture, in one of the tunnels belonging to an artisanal miner linked to the province’s largest mining company, Poderosa.
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Single-use grills are ‘the worst form of litter’, says the boss of Keep Britain Tidy, whose own young son was badly burned by one left on a beach. They’re also a terrible way to cook. Should shops stop selling them?
Toby Tyler can still hear his son William’s scream. “That will never, ever leave us,” he says, speaking on a video call from the family home in Stockport, Greater Manchester. “But we didn’t understand what had happened. We thought he’d stood on something that had gone into his foot. It was only when he got to us and we grabbed him that we could see his foot completely stripped – all the skin had gone.”
It was 2020, in a break between lockdowns, and the Tyler family – Toby and Claire, their kids Lily and William, who was nine at the time – had gone to the beach at Formby. “There was another family who’d brought a disposable barbecue which they’d used on the sand in the morning. The whole unit had cooled, so they had moved it because they were worried about the kids standing on it, mainly because it was sharp.” You know the type: foil tray full of charcoal, topped with a mesh grill.
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Decades-long dispute between council and GMB union resurfaces after report shows 140% rise in missed collections
The threat, if not explicit, was thinly veiled. Written in capitals, it had been left on a car parked outside the home of a waste-depot manager. The car’s tyres had been slashed. “Leave the case alone. Brakes next,” it said. “Nice dogs by the way.”
It may sound like a scene from a Sopranos-style mafia drama, but the threat was not made in mob-run New Jersey – the note was left in one of the most liberal, bohemian cities in England, where a battle over who really controls the bins is threatening to spill on to the streets.
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Uzimanje statina, lijekova za snižavanje povišene razine kolesterola, učinkovit je, i siguran način snižavanja kolesterola i smanjenja rizika od kardiovaskularnih događaja. Unatoč tome što kliničari preporučuju mnogim pacijentima s dijabetesom uzimanje statina, gotovo petina njih odlučuje se odgoditi liječenje.
Jednogodišnja studija na zdravim ženama koje su također dosljedno imale menstrualni ciklus svakih 21-36 dana i normalnu ovulaciju pokazala je da je uobičajeno osjetiti blagu osjetljivost i oticanje dojki prije sljedeće menstruacije.
Novo istraživanje je pokazalo, da je centralna tjelesna masnoća, posebno oko trbuha, jače povezana s rizikom od psorijaze nego ukupna tjelesna masnoća, posebno kod žena. Ova veza između centralne masnoće i psorijaze ostala je dosljedna bez obzira na genetsku predispoziciju, što ukazuje na to da je abdominalna masnoća neovisni čimbenik rizika.
Nove tehnike snimanja magnetskom rezonancijom otkrivaju skrivene promjene u hipotalamusu kod mladih žena, bacajući svjetlo na biološke korijene anoreksije nervoze i pretilosti te otvarajući put ciljanim tretmanima.
Rezultati nove studije pokazali su da su keto dijeta i mediteranska prehrana doveli do značajnog smanjenja povišene tjelesne težine, poboljšanog sastava tijela i sniženja razine krvnog tlaka. Oba prehrambena pristupa smatraju se sigurnima, učinkovitima i dobro podnošljivima.
Prema rezultatima novog istraživanja, jednostavan krvni test mogao bi revolucionirati rano otkrivanje Alzheimerove bolesti, nudeći manje invazivan i vrlo točan alat za identifikaciju osoba u riziku prije pojave simptoma Alzheimerove bolesti.
Izgleda da adolescenti s većim unosom beta-karotena, što odražava više voća i povrća, doživljavaju manje anksioznosti i bolju kvalitetu života, što ističe ulogu prehrane u mentalnom zdravlju mladih, ukazuje nova studija.
San nakon stresa može pomoći oporavku podržavajući esencijalne neurobiološke procese, ukazuje nova studija. U životinjskim modelima, otporne osobe često spavaju nakon stresa, što sugerira da ovaj odgovor pomaže u vraćanju ravnoteže.
Znanstvenici su uspjeli razviti metodu analize tisuća proteina na temelju krvi u jednom, neciljanom testu, koji će uvelike pomoći u dijagnosticiranju rijetkih bolesti kod djece, pokazuje nova studija.
Konzumiranje više alkohola, posebno piva ili žestokih pića, umjereno povećava rizik od raka gušterače, ukazuje analiza 30 prospektivnih studija. Rak gušterače je 12. najčešći rak u svijetu, povezan s visokom stopom smrtnosti kada se dijagnosticira u uznapredovalim stadijima. Činio je 5% svih smrtnih slučajeva povezanih s rakom diljem svijeta u 2022. godini.
