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Judgment in The Hague orders Netherlands to do more to protect Caribbean people in its territory from impacts of climate crisis
The Dutch government discriminated against people in one of its most vulnerable territories by not helping them adapt to climate change, a court has found.
The judgment, announced on Wednesday in The Hague, chastises the Netherlands for treating people on the island of Bonaire, in the Caribbean, differently to inhabitants of the European part of the country and for not doing its fair share to cut national emissions.
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Everything felt like it was swelling, and despite my diligent consumption of water and Hydralyte, I couldn’t quite escape the persistent, low-level nausea. Even thinking took longer
My mother grew up in Warracknabeal, a speck of a town four hours from Melbourne, Australia, in the wide, wheat country of the Wimmera – that part of Victoria where the sky starts to stretch, where you can see weather happening 100 kilometres away.
Once or twice a year, our family would pack into the rattling old LandCruiser and drive up to visit my grandmother. It can’t always have been blistering weather but my memories of those trips are shot through with summer heat: the peeling paint of my grandmother’s house, the blasted-dry grass of the reserve over the road and its ancient metal monkey bars, so hot they burned your hands. Once, a dust storm blew up while we were there, engulfing the small weatherboard house in howling dirty orange.
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People in south-west mop up after Storm Chandra and prepare for next bout of rain, with major incident declared
In the early hours, the Wade family’s boxer puppy began barking. Thinking it needed to be let out, they traipsed downstairs and opened the back door – to be greeted not by their neat garden but an expanse of water.
“It was like a sea out there,” said James Wade. Over the coming hours the water crept into their home on a modern estate in Taunton, forcing James, his wife, Faye, and their three children, six, 11 and 12, out and into emergency accommodation.
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Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds
Swift bricks will be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after the Scottish parliament voted in favour of a law to help endangered cavity-nesting birds.
The Scottish government and MSPs across the parties backed an amendment by Scottish Green Mark Ruskell to make swift bricks mandatory for all new dwellings “where reasonably practical and appropriate”.
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Popularity of EVs in country is part of global trend of emerging markets spurning fossil fuel cars at surprising speeds
When Berke Astarcıoğlu bought a BMW i3 in 2016, he was one of just 44 people in a country of 80 million to buy a battery electric vehicle (BEV) that year. By the time he bought a Tesla in 2023, BEVs were no longer a complete oddity in Turkey, making up 7% of new car sales.
Fast-forward two years and electric cars are selling so fast that Turkey has caught up with the EU in its rate of adoption. Its market is now the fourth largest in Europe, behind Germany, the UK and France.
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West Dartmoor, Devon: It’s quite normal for greater spotteds to start staking out territories in January, less so on a plastic box near my bedroom window
The electrical junction box, fixed to the top of the roadside telegraph pole, displays a yellow sign that warns “Danger of death”. Not that the bird perched on top seemed the slightest bit concerned – the acoustics are exceptional.
I was first woken one snowy morning early in January to short bursts of drilling outside the window. While I’m familiar with the territorial sounds of woodpeckers in my village, which lies close to the historic landmark of Brentor church, this noise was different. It had the resonance of someone impatiently tapping their fingers on a desktop, with the speed of a marching band snare-drum roll.
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Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-based
Europe’s supermarket shelves are packed with brands billing their plastic packaging as sustainable, but often only a fraction of the materials are truly recovered from waste, with the rest made from petroleum.
Brands using plastic packaging – from Kraft’s Heinz Beanz to Mondelēz’s Philadelphia – use materials made by the plastic manufacturing arm of the oil company Saudi Aramco.
This article is part of a cross-border investigation, supported by IJ4EU and coordinated by the independent journalist Ludovica Jona, with the media outlets the Guardian, Voxeurop, Mediapart (France), Altreconomia (Italy), Público (Spain), Investigative Reporting Denmark, Deutsche Welle (Germany) and with reporters Lorenzo Sangermano and Lucy Taylor
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After debris balls closed Sydney beaches in October 2024, Guardian Australia reported they could be linked to sewage outfalls. Authorities were less keen to talk
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Last week, after torrential rain in Sydney, fresh poo balls washed up on the beach at Malabar, the closest beach to the problematic Malabar sewage treatment plant.
Signs were erected on the beach warning people not to touch the “debris balls” or swim. But authorities didn’t let the wider community know. There were no other warnings issued by Sydney Water, the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) or the state government.
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Funding cuts, conspiracy theories and ‘powder keg’ pine plantations have seen January’s forest fires tear through Chubut in southern Argentina
Lucas Chiappe had known for a long time that the fire was coming. For decades, the environmentalist had warned that replacing native trees in the Andes mountain range with highly flammable foreign pine was a recipe for disaster.
In early January, flames raced down the Pirque hill and edged closer to his home in the Patagonian town of Epuyén, Argentina, where he had lived since the 1970s. Thirty people with six motor pumps fought for hours, hoses stretched for kilometres, but “there was no way”.
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As the temperature nears 49C in the Mallee region, residents take refuge in air-conditioned rooms
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In the slanting, late-afternoon summer sun, the fields around the small Australian town of Ouyen – almost 450km north-west of Melbourne – turn the colour of honey. The edges shimmer with silver, that old cruel trick of feigning water where it hasn’t rained for weeks.
Summer is always hot out here in the sparse, flat Mallee, but this year is shaping up to be particularly harsh. Just two weeks ago, on Thursday 8 January, Ouyen got to 47.5C. On Monday it reached 44.3C.
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Kada je srčani mišić oslabljen ili ozlijeđen zbog srčanog udara, srcu može biti teško pumpati dovoljno krvi kako bi zadovoljilo potrebe tijela. S vremenom to može dovesti do zatajenja srca, gdje funkcija srca pada ispod 40%. Nažalost, otprilike 50% pacijenata sa zatajenjem srca umire unutar pet godina od razvoja stanja, a ne postoji lijek koji bi zaustavio napredovanje ove bolesti.
Probavni simptomi često se pojavljuju godinama prije pojave tremora kod Parkinsonove bolesti, a sve više dokaza upućuje na to da os crijeva-mozak može igrati ključnu ulogu u ranim procesima bolesti i upravljanju simptomima.
Prema rezultatima nove studije, dva dana konzumacije zobene kaše može potaknuti fenolne metabolite iz crijeva da snize razine kolesterola, što objašnjava zašto obrok zobi i mikrobiom oblikuju metaboličke koristi. Naime, fenolni spojevi nastali razgradnjom zobi crijevnim mikrobima, poput ferulinske kiseline i dihidroferulinske kiseline, zajedno s drugim fenolnim metabolitima, povezani su s koristima za lipidni profil, posebno učincima snižavanja kolesterola.
Osobe s dijabetesom tip 2 suočavaju se s većim rizikom od srčanih udara, moždanih udara i drugih kardiovaskularnih problema. Ti se rizici također razlikuju među ženama i muškarcima, no liječnici ne razumiju u potpunosti zašto. U novoj studiji američki znanstvenici s Johns Hopkins Medicine, istraživali su pomažu li spolni hormoni poput testosterona i estradiola objasniti ove razlike.
U neočekivanom otkriću, američki znanstvenici su otkrili da su bakterije prisutne unutar najčešće vrste bubrežnih kamenaca, otkrivajući prethodno neprepoznatu komponentu uključenu u njihovo stvaranje. Studija pokazuje da bakterije mogu boraviti unutar bubrežnih kamenaca i mogu aktivno doprinijeti njihovom stvaranju. Otkrivanjem ovog novog mehanizma, studija otvara vrata novim terapijskim strategijama koje ciljaju mikrobno okruženje bubrežnih kamenaca.
Nova studija identificirala je albumin, najzastupljeniji protein u ljudskoj krvi, kao snažnu i prethodno neprepoznatu obranu od mukormikoze, rijetke, ali često smrtonosne gljivične infekcije. Mukormikoza, ponekad nazvana crna gljivica, brzo se širi infekcijom uzrokovanom gljivicama Mucorales i može biti smrtonosna kod čak polovice oboljelih pacijenata, a u nekim slučajevima dijagnoza mukormikoze nosi prognozu sigurne smrti.
Više od 25% trudnica ili žena nakon poroda koje su pretrpjele akutni moždani udar imale su susrete s pružateljima zdravstvene skrbi zbog simptoma povezanih s moždanim udarom u prethodnom mjesecu, no nisu dobile pravovremenu dijagnozu, pokazala je nova studija.
Menopauza je povezana sa smanjenjem volumena sive tvari u ključnim regijama mozga, kao i s povećanom razinom anksioznosti i depresije te poteškoćama sa spavanjem, pokazala je nova britanska studija. Jednako tako, pokazalo se, da hormonska nadomjesna terapija (HRT) ne ublažava te učinke, iako može usporiti pad vremena reakcije.
Rezultati nove studije otkrili su da lijekovi koji se koriste za liječenje gihta također mogu smanjiti rizik od srčanog udara (infarkta miokarda) i moždanog udara kod osoba s gihtom. Naime, liječenje gihta s ciljem postizanja ciljane razine urata u krvi također sprječava srčane i moždane udare.
Smanjenje natrija u pakiranoj i pripremljenoj hrani moglo bi značajno poboljšati kardiovaskularno zdravlje i spriječiti mnoge slučajeve bolesti srca, moždanog udara i smrti u općoj populaciji, tvrde rezultati dviju studija.
