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Draft Motion for a Resolution prepared for the EU Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, March 2016
Draft Motion prepared by Rapporteurs Pavel Poc (Socialists and Democrats Group), Kateřina Konečná on behalf of the European United Left and Nordic Green Left group, Bas Eickhout of the Greens / European Free Alliance Group, Piernicola Pedicini of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group, Mark Demesmaeker, Sirpa Pietikäinen and Frédérique Ries. This draft Motion was carried forward for the vote in a Parliamentary Plenary Session in April 2016.
Marnie Lovejoy hopes to inspire other women to fish, protect England’s rivers and lift up the ‘beautiful’ grayling
With its iridescent pink scales and elegant dorsal fin, the grayling is known to anglers as the “lady of the stream”, yet the society fighting for its protection has never been led by a woman, until now.
Angling, and fly-fishing in particular, has always been a very male-dominated sport. The fly-fisher’s club in Mayfair, London, where anglers meet to lunch on dover sole and drink fine wine, did not allow women to cross the threshold even as guests until 2024.
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Shaun Hancox has created scores of ponds for rewilding projects across Britain – and he says there’s a lot more to it than digging a hole
He is known as “the Picasso of ponds” but the tableaux being created by Shaun Hancox in a boggy field in Somerset currently looks more like a building site. An orange and black excavator is rhythmically removing lumpy clay soil and sculpting it into brown banks.
The result looks like a scar of bare earth on what was once green pasture – but the magic happens as soon as rain fills the newly created depressions. Plants seed swiftly, invertebrates and amphibians rapidly find the water, and life explodes.
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Hungerford, Berkshire: In a nearby farm, ever-resourceful birds and bees are getting creative with where they build their nests
There are some unusual nesting spots being utilised in the farm and stableyard, revealed by pauses between chores.
My wheelbarrow trips to the muck heap are attended by pied and grey wagtail pairs that make small aerial assaults on insects, though I’ve yet to locate their nests. The swallows are well-served here by midges and flies swarming around warm-blooded animals, and there is always mud for nest repairs, with the regular slosh of water buckets and hosing down of sweaty horses.
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UN report says global meat supply has risen fourfold in last 60 years and is expected to keep rising
The average person eats about six times as much chicken and twice as much pork as their grandparents’ generation did, data from a UN report suggests, with global meat supply having risen fourfold in the last 60 years and expected to keep rising.
The supply of poultry rose from below 3kg a person in 1961 to 17kg in 2022, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Pork supply doubled to 15kg a person over the same period, while beef, the most polluting food, stayed steady at 9kg.
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Weather models project a potentially strong El Niño this year, which could spell disaster for heatwave-hit India, drench China and hurt agriculture across south-east Asia
The UN has warned that the world must prepare for the imminent return of El Niño and the raised global temperatures and weather extremes it brings.
The powerful natural weather pattern has an 80% chance of forming before September and a 90% chance before November, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.
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Experts say dismantling the ocean observation system will ‘severely degrade’ the accuracy of weather predictions
The Trump administration’s plan to dismantle an ocean observation system vital to understanding the climate crisis and marine ecosystems would “severely degrade” the accuracy of weather predictions and El Niño forecasts, with economic consequences for the US, European and American scientists have warned.
Decommissioning the US system, which plays a major part in a global ocean observation network, would lead to a massive increase in error in the annual estimates of ocean heating rates, according to research published last month.
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Experts say increased use of crops for fuel is ‘dangerous game’ that could send food price inflation soaring
Demand for biofuels is likely to leap by nearly a third this year, which could send food price inflation soaring further and push the world closer to a global food crisis.
More countries are opting to increase biofuel use as the price of oil has jumped to nearly $100 a barrel after the US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the closure of the strait of Hormuz.
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Global heating is destroying creeks the crayfish call home. They’re the canary in the coalmine for other species living in the delicate ecosystems
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Nightfall comes early under the dense cloak of the rainforest canopy and Ollie Scully – boots off and barefoot – is wading through the cool water with his torch scouring the rocky bottom of a shallow creek.
We are at an undisclosed spot in the hinterland of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. With leeches and trip hazards aplenty, the search has been on for hours.
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Guardian Australia road tests Hornsby Park and explores the history of turning industrial sites into peaceful green escapes in the heart of the city
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I’m a denizen of the inner city, more used to plane trees than eucalypts. But Hornsby Park won me over immediately.
A highlight is the heritage steps, which stretch for about 1km, connecting Hornsby pool at one end and the Great North Walk at the other. Constructed in the 1930s, they traverse through the new park that opened earlier this year at the site of an old quarry abandoned since 2003.
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An ‘apolitical’ retired IT manager and a ‘far left’ biologist disagree over tackling global heating – but are they in harmony over truth and reconciliation?
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Don, 74, Farnham
Occupation Retired IT project manager
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Nova studija povezuje kronični zatvor (konstipacija) s većom vjerojatnošću depresije, ukazujući na puteve crijevo-mozak i potrebu za zajedničkom procjenom crijevnog i mentalnog zdravlja. Depresija je među najraširenijim, onesposobljavajućim mentalnim poremećajima u svijetu, značajno doprinoseći teretu bolesti i smrtnosti. Prema nedavnim globalnim procjenama, oko 350 milijuna ljudi ima depresiju. Kronični zatvor jedan je od najčešćih gastrointestinalnih poremećaja i uzrokuje trajnu nelagodu, remeti svakodnevne aktivnosti i psihološku dobrobit.
Rezultati nove studije pokazuju da povećanje histaminergičke signalizacije može izoštriti pronalaženje pamćenja, podržati adaptivno donošenje odluka i stabilizirati učenje iz negativnih iskustava, otkrivajući zanemarenu ulogu neurotransmitera u kognitivnim procesima.
Kineski znanstvenici razvili su mineralizirani DNK hidrogel koji kombinira imunološku regulaciju s održivom regeneracijom kostiju. Koristeći tetraedarske DNK nanostrukture i mineralizaciju kalcijevog fosfata, znanstvenici su stvorili skelet koji potiče aktivnost makrofaga pogodnu za zacjeljivanje, a istovremeno podržava matične stanice koje stvaraju kosti.
Prema rezultatima nove studije, rizik od moždanog udara se ne povećava jednako kod svih pacijentica s atrijskom fibrilacijom. Naime, studija sugerira da je ženski spol više poput modifikatora rizika, s povećanim rizikom od moždanog udara koji se prvenstveno opaža kod žena u dobi od 75 i više godina ili onih s većim opterećenjem drugim zdravstvenim stanjima.
Trenutne terapije za reumatoidni artritis oslanjaju se na trajnu imunosupresiju, a ne na obnovu imunološke tolerancije, pri čemu remisija bez lijekova ostaje rijetka. No, nedavna izvješća sugeriraju da bi terapija himernim antigenskim receptorom T (CAR-T) stanicama usmjerenim na CD19 mogla biti učinkovit pristup.
Pacijenti s refluksom kiseline, koji se javlja kada želučana kiselina prolazi u jednjak, dobro poznaju simptome: žgaravicu, podrigivanje, bol u prsima i probleme s gutanjem. Osim ovih tegoba, refluks kiseline također povećava rizik od raka jednjaka, koji ima petogodišnju stopu preživljavanja od oko 22%.
Rana primjena paracetamola može ubrzati zatvaranje otvorenog ductus arteriosusa kod izrazite nedonoščadi, tvrdi nova studija. Otvoreni ductus arteriosus (PDA) je često stanje kod nedonoščadi kod kojeg se fetalna krvna žila između aorte i plućne arterije ne zatvara normalno nakon rođenja. Stanje može povećati rizik od ozbiljnih bolesti i smrtnosti, posebno među najmanjom nedonoščadi.
Nova studija pokazuje potencijal novog pristupa liječenju anoreksije nervoze - poremećaja za koji su učinkoviti tretmani značajno ograničeni. Naime, pokazalo se, da je ketogena nutritivna intervencija - dijeta s visokim udjelom masti, niskim udjelom ugljikohidrata i umjerenim udjelom proteina - bila izvediva i sigurna za pacijente s anoreksijom nervoze s normaliziranom težinom i blago pothranjenom težinom. Sudionici studije su dobro podnijeli ketogenu intervenciju, s visokim stopama pridržavanja i bez značajnog gubitka težine tijekom cijelog programa.
Moždani udar je razorno stanje koje remeti pravilnu funkciju mozga. Nakon moždanog udara, mnogi pacijenti obično će osjetiti bol u udovima na strani tijela suprotnoj od moždane lezije. U rijetkim slučajevima, bol se razvija i na istoj strani kao i lezija, šireći se bilateralno na zrcalni način. To je fenomen poznat kao bilateralna bol ili bol zrcalne slike.
U nedavno objavljenoj studiji znanstvenici su istraživali može li istovremena inhibicija homologa Kirstenovog virusnog onkogena štakorskog sarkoma (KRAS), receptora epidermalnog faktora rasta (EGFR) i pretvarača signala i aktivatora transkripcije 3 (STAT3) izazvati trajnu regresiju karcinoma gušterače i spriječiti otpornost na liječenje.
