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Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years
‘Desecration of landscape’: the fight over development in areas of outstanding natural beauty
Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day
Nature and farmland equivalent in size to that of the New Forest – 604 sq km – was lost to concrete and bricks and mortar in the UK between 2018 and 2023, according to an investigation by the Guardian and European partners.
In the same period the loss of some of the most protected and special natural areas in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, known as national landscapes, reached 12 sq km; equivalent to 1,680 football pitches worth of natural land.
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Theresa May, Alok Sharma, business and church leaders say plan would harm UK and not even Margaret Thatcher would have countenanced it
The former prime minister Theresa May has condemned a promise made by Kemi Badenoch to repeal the Climate Change Act if the Tories win the next general election, calling the plans a “catastrophic mistake”.
She joined other leading Tories, business groups, scientists and the Church of England in attacking the Conservative leader’s announcement, which would remove the requirement for governments to set “carbon budgets” laying out how far greenhouse gas emissions will be cut every five years, up to 2050.
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Latest disposal by ‘punk’ beer company follows £37m loss and closure of 10 pubs
BrewDog has sold a Highlands rewilding estate it bought with great fanfare in 2020 after posting losses last year of £37m on its beer businesses.
The company paid £8.8m for Kinrara near Aviemore and pledged it would plant millions of trees on 50 sq km of land, initially telling customers the project would be partly funded by sales of its Lost Forest beer.
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Pioneering scientist whose breakthrough studies of chimpanzees changed how the animals were perceived and led to greater protection
During the final months of 1960, in what is now Gombe national park, Tanzania, Jane Goodall, then 26 years old, made two discoveries that established her name and reputation as a field scientist studying wild apes. First, she observed chimpanzees eating red meat. Before that moment, the scientific consensus, based on virtually no direct observation, was that chimpanzees were vegetarians.
Then she witnessed an even more unexpected behaviour: a chimpanzee male, crouched next to a high earthen tower built by termites, studiously modifying a long stalk of grass until it became a useful probe. The chimp then inserted the probe into a narrow tunnel that descended deep into the mound. As Goodall soon came to understand, members of the insect species’ soldier caste inside the mound instinctively lock their powerful mandibles on to any intruding object – and thus they became, once the probe was carefully drawn back out, victims of a crafty ape. The termites, potentially a significant source of nutrition, were tasty enough to serve as food for several species of monkey in that part of east Africa. Only chimpanzees, however, had developed the cultural tradition of “fishing” for them.
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A 30-year effort driven by long-term policies is finally paying off in Santiago in Chile – but the challenge is far from over
In Santiago, this winter was different. The mountains surrounding the city – the same ones that usually trap smog and turn it into a “pressure cooker” – were visible more days than usual.
For nearly 30 years Chile’s capital has been experimenting in how to reduce air pollution; in the last few years the work has at last begun paying dividends and 2025 was the third best year in terms of fewest hours of critical pollution episodes since the first atmospheric prevention and decontamination plan in 1997. Over the last decade, hours of exposure to high levels of pollution fell by 66%, which, according to the environment minister, Maisa Rojas, means the 7.5 million residents of the metropolitan region “are breathing cleaner air”.
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Photographer Jem Cresswell spent five years documenting the southern hemisphere’s humpback whales in the waters surrounding the Tonga Trench for his new book Giants, out now
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If successful, method could be used to support long-term conservation of species vulnerable to extinction
Researchers are to attempt to rear swallowtail butterflies from eggs frozen in liquid nitrogen in a test to see whether cryopreservation could support the long-term conservation of Britain’s largest native species.
In a groundbreaking project, researchers will freeze eggs of captive-bred European swallowtails in liquid nitrogen at -196C and attempt to rear butterflies from the unfrozen eggs, comparing their success with butterflies reared from eggs that have never been frozen.
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For 18 years, Cate Blanchett has railed against the hated garden gadget – and she’s not alone. From Hugh Grant to Danny DeVito, the backpack blower has united stars in unlikely, furious contempt
Consider the great Hollywood feud. Perhaps Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s mutual loathing comes to mind? Or Marlon Brando’s 40-year-old beef with Burt Reynolds? Maybe the more recent tensions between Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh? Well, let me tell you: these are absolutely nothing compared to Cate Blanchett and her indefatigable animus towards … the leaf blower. Seemingly every single leaf blower.
Truly, this is one of the greatest celebrity animosities of this century. The earliest extant Blanchett-rant on the subject is a W Magazine interview, way back in 2007, when she ambiguously characterised leaf blowers – a lot of fence-sitting here – as “everything that is wrong with the human race”.
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Locals complain of a changed landscape, flooding, dust and disruption as rail project cuts through area of outstanding natural beauty
UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development
‘Desecration of landscape’: the fight over development in areas of outstanding natural beauty
Margaret Bunce used to look from her cottage window over a swoop of fields of wheat and small copses. Now when she opens her curtains each morning, the rural valley between Great Missenden and Wendover is dominated by the concrete and earthworks of HS2.
Orange-clad men and their yellow diggers and dumpers are building cuttings and viaducts to take the high-speed railway on its path through a swath of the Chilterns area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB), now known as a national landscape.
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Residents of Woodgate estate in West Sussex enjoy its open spaces and wildlife but conservationists say it has set worrying precedent
UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development
Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day
A flock of goldfinches circle before settling on a rooftop as Sue takes her morning walk around the Woodgate estate in Pease Pottage, West Sussex. Rounding a corner, she reaches a large wildlife pond where eight cygnets and a swan are feeding. Dragonflies circle overhead.
For the last three years, the estate a few miles south of Crawley built within the High Weald area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) has been Sue’s home. Her son and daughter-in-law also live on the estate, where the 600 homes range from shared ownership flats to £1.4m luxury detached houses.
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Dugotrajna izloženost kemikaliji koja se koristi u odmašćivanju i kemijskom čišćenju metala mogla bi povećati rizik od Parkinsonove bolesti, tvrdi nova studija. Naime, starije osobe koje žive na mjestima s najvišim razinama trikloretilena u zraku imale su 10% veći rizik od Parkinsonove bolesti od onih u područjima s najnižim razinama.
Znanstvenici otkrivaju da kratkotrajno udisanje ozona ne samo da šteti plućima; ono preoblikuje mikrobe u ustima, pri čemu su muškarci izloženi najvećim rizicima.
Studija provedena na više od 3.600 ljudi pokazuje da crveno meso, kada se jede kao dio uravnotežene prehrane, može poboljšati hranjive tvari koje podržavaju mozak, poput B12 i cinka, bez ometanja crijevnih mikroba ili povećanja rizika za mentalno zdravlje.
Laboratorijsko istraživanje provedeno na miševima otkriva da pažljivo odabrani probiotici mogu sniziti razinu šećera u krvi, tjelesne masti i kolesterola, a istovremeno preoblikovati metabolizam crijeva, što sugerira obećavajuću strategiju za buduću prevenciju dijabetesa.
Nova studija pokazuje da jednostavne navike iz ranog života, poput davanja jogurta u dobi od jedne godine i osiguravanja stabilnog noćnog sna, mogu utjecati na to koliko snažno djeca razvijaju vještine pamćenja do predškolske dobi.
Ljudi koji loše spavaju imaju veću vjerojatnost od drugih da imaju mozak koji izgleda stariji nego što zapravo jest, a povećana upala u tijelu može djelomično objasniti ovu povezanost.
Propisivanje biološkog lijeka sotatercepta uz standardno liječenje za najteži oblik plućne hipertenzije značajno smanjuje vjerojatnost pogoršanja bolesti kada se doda unutar prve godine nakon dijagnoze, pokazuju rezultati nove studije.
Novi dokazi pokazuju da vraćanje normalne regulacije glukoze može zaštititi od dijabetesa čak i bez smanjenja tjelesne težine, mijenjajući strategije prevencije dijabetesa diljem svijeta.
Rezultati nove studije otkrivaju da je uključivanje ekstra djevičanskog maslinovog ulja u redovitu prehranu povezano s manjim opsegom struka, nižom tjelesnom težinom i poboljšanim metaboličkim zdravljem, što pojačava njegovu središnju ulogu u mediteranskoj prehrani.
Radioterapija može ponuditi usporedivu i potencijalno sigurniju alternativu ponovljenoj kateterskoj ablaciji za pacijente s teškim abnormalnim srčanim ritmovima koji se više ne mogu kontrolirati lijekovima, ukazuje nova studija.