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A draft Motion prepared for the EU Parliamentary Committe for the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety in March 2016.
Draft Motion prepared by Rapporteur Mireille d'Ornano on behalf of the Europe of Nations and Freedom Group.
Energy secretary says countries must work together during conference at which US delegate called net zero ‘dangerous’
Britain will find “common ground” with the US on energy and the economy including on nuclear power, despite differences over climate policy, the UK energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has pledged.
He was speaking at the close of a two-day, 60-country conference in London on energy security, hosted by the government and the International Energy Agency (IEA), at which the US delegate Tommy Joyce attacked net zero policies as “dangerous” and “damaging”, and said it was in the interests of “our adversaries”.
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Trees are being cleared for rainforest mega-event – but state governor says a ‘new history’ is under way
Fake metal trees have been set into the concrete ground of the Amazonian host city of this year’s climate summit, prompting scandalised contrasts with the once-living vegetation that has been cleared in preparation for Cop30 in Brazil.
But in an unlikely convergence of views, both the centre-right state governor and leftwing social movements insist this is a storm in a plant pot compared with the darkening geopolitical threats to the world’s biggest diplomatic gathering, which will take place in November in Belém.
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Transforming a former industrial area in Sweden will bring psychological benefits for future residents and reduce construction’s climate impact
Although activity is high, it is surprisingly quiet inside the construction site of a high school extension in Sickla, a former industrial area in south Stockholm that is set to become part of the “largest mass timber project in the world” according to the Swedish urban property developer Atrium Ljungberg.
Just a few months remain until students enter the premises, but there is no sound of drilling or pounding against concrete walls. The scent of wood is unmistakable, and signs of the material can be spotted everywhere – from glulam (glued laminated timber) columns and beams in the building’s frame to cross-laminated timber (CLT) slabs in the floors, ceilings and staircases. CLT, made by gluing together layers of planed wood into panels, offers strength and rigidity comparable to concrete but is significantly lighter and quicker to build with.
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Employees of water firms who obstruct investigations into spills could face jail under new rules that come into force on Friday
Water company bosses have entirely escaped punishment for covering up illegal sewage spills, government figures show, as ministers prepare to bring in a new law threatening them with up to two years in prison for doing so.
Only three people have ever been prosecuted for obstructing the Environment Agency in its investigations into sewage spills, officials said, and none received even a fine.
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Authorities warn of mudslides during intense rainfall, as Kenya is hit by deadly flash flooding
After Storm Hans battered northern Italy in the runup to Easter, severe weather continued to lash much of the country this week. Since Tuesday, the conditions have triggered potent showers and thunderstorms, and yellow and orange weather warnings have been issued.
With winds generally remaining light this week, the greatest concerns surround the risks from intense rainfall, as slow-moving heavy showers can deliver a prolonged downpour to a fairly localised area. The authorities have warned people to avoid high-risk areas such as roads with steep embankments amid a threat of flash flooding and mudslides.
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UK prime minister tells energy summit his government is determined to transition energy system from fossil fuels to renewables
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The Anohni and the Johnsons singer is collaborating with marine scientists for two special shows at Sydney’s Vivid festival that will show the reef’s plight
Anohni Hegarty is about to go to the Great Barrier Reef for the first time. “I feel like I’m going to Auschwitz,” she says nervously. “On the one hand, I’m so excited to go because the landscape is so beautiful, and I know there’s going to be so much that’s gorgeous. And yet, I’m also scared.”
In a week, the British-born, New York-based avant garde singer of Anohni and the Johnsons is flying to Lizard Island, a paradise of powdery sands on the reef, 1,600km north-west of Brisbane. Its luxury villas and bluest of blue waters are a stark contrast to the grim nature of Anohni’s assignment: documenting the current state of the world’s biggest coral reef.
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Some households aren’t suited to solar – but do batteries make environmental or financial sense on their own?
Many people want to reduce their carbon footprint but for various reasons can’t install solar panels. Some roofs face the wrong way, others are overshadowed or subject to heritage restrictions, and apartment blocks often lack space.
Landlords are also often reluctant to install solar systems in rental properties since the benefits flow to the tenants rather than the property owner.
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Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers captures the grief and resilience of survivors in the Magnolia state
Twenty years ago this August, the United States Gulf coast was irrevocably changed when Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest and costliest storms to ever hit the country, made landfall. Making landfall as a strong category 3, the storm, which was so vast it stretched the length of the Mississippi Gulf coast all the way into Alabama, hit the Mississippi-Louisiana coastal border before continuing northward.
Since then, superstorms fueled by the climate crisis have become relatively commonplace in the country, but the impact of Katrina endures to this day. Immediately following the storm, the country and world were enthralled by tragic stories out of New Orleans, where the levees failed to a catastrophic effect and the local, state and federal responses were disastrous. But Mississippi, which received the maximum impact from the storm surge, was largely left out of the national narrative around Katrina.
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Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump
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Monoklonsko antitijelo bentracimab može sigurno i učinkovito preokrenuti potencijalno katastrofalne komplikacije krvarenja povezane s tikagrelorom, uobičajenim lijekom koji se koristi za liječenje pacijenata s akutnim koronarnim sindromima, prethodnim srčanim udarom, moždanim udarom i koronarnom bolešću srca, ukazuje nova studija.
Ishemijski moždani udar ostaje jedan od vodećih uzroka smrti i dugotrajne invalidnosti u svijetu, pri čemu suženje karotidne arterije zbog ateroskleroze doprinosi do 30% svih slučajeva. Desetljećima su se liječnici prvenstveno oslanjali na stupanj suženja karotidne arterije (stenoza) kako bi procijenili rizik od moždanog udara i odredili najbolje mogućnosti liječenja. Međutim, sve više dokaza upućuje na to da ovaj pristup može biti nedovoljan za pacijente s blagom, ali simptomatskom stenozom karotidne arterije.
Novo istraživanje provedeno u Japanu otkrilo je da određena subpopulacija neutrofila, bijelih krvnih stanica, može predvidjeti recidiv autoimune bolesti u ranoj fazi, što bi moglo omogućiti poboljšano personalizirano liječenje.
Osobe koje razviju epilepsiju nakon traumatske ozljede mozga imaju 80 posto veći rizik od prerane smrti u usporedbi s onima koji su pretrpjeli sličnu ozljedu mozga bez razvoja epilepsije, ukazuje nova studija.
Lajmska bolest (Lyme borelioza), koju uzrokuje bakterija Borrelia burgdorferi, a prenose je krpelji, sve je veći zdravstveni problem koji može uzrokovati ozbiljne bolesti ako se ne liječi pravilno. No, rano liječenje antibioticima može spriječiti razvoj srčanih, neuroloških i reumatoloških komplikacija koje se javljaju kasnije u bolesti.
Metabolički sindrom u srednjim godinama povezan je s povećanim rizikom od demencije u mladosti, prema nedavno objavljenoj studiji. Demencija u mladosti dijagnosticira se prije 65. godine života. Studija ne dokazuje da metabolički sindrom uzrokuje demenciju u mladosti, samo pokazuje povezanost.
Pacijenti s kroničnom limfocitnom leukemijom (CLL) ili malim limfocitnim limfomom (SLL) koji su uzimali statine, lijekove za snižavanje povišene razine kolesterola, na početku liječenja raka, imali su 61% manji rizik od smrti od raka u usporedbi sa sličnim pacijentima koji nisu uzimali statine, pokazuje nova studija.
Rezultati nove studije pokazali su da su majke koje su anemične u ranoj trudnoći suočene s većom vjerojatnošću da će roditi dijete sa srčanom manom. Nakon prilagodbe mogućim čimbenicima utjecaja, izgledi za rađanje djeteta s prirođenom srčanom bolešću bili su 47% veći među anemičnim majkama.
Sveobuhvatni pregled više studija pokazuje da mediteranska prehrana značajno smanjuje rizik od raka dojke kod žena u postmenopauzi, ističući potencijal prehrane kao strateškog alata za prevenciju.
Prema rezultatima nove studije, jednostavan krvni test za p-tau181 u plazmi može otkriti kognitivno opadanje, ranu, ali biološki različitu fazu Alzheimerove bolesti (AD), godinama prije pojave tradicionalnih simptoma bolesti.
