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Producers promoted chemical recycling – processes used to break plastics into constituent molecules – but knew of limitations
Plastic producers have pushed “advanced recycling” as a salve to the plastic waste crisis despite knowing for years that it is not a technically or economically feasible solution, a new report argues.
Advanced recycling, also known as chemical recycling, refers to a variety of processes used to break plastics into their constituent molecules. The industry has increasingly promoted these technologies, as public concern about the environmental and health effects of plastic pollution has grown. Yet the rollout of these technologies has been plagued by problems, according to a new analysis from the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), a fossil-fuel accountability advocacy group.
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The University of Queensland system is intended to give policymakers idea of how species traverse the oceans and what it will take to save them
Off the east coast of Florida, female loggerhead turtles swim more than 1,000km north, hugging the edge of the continental shelf to get to feeding grounds.
Humpback whales move through Moreton Bay off the Brisbane coast in Australia, on their way to feed around the Balleny Islands more than 4,000km away off the Antarctic coastline, where wandering albatross circle above, travelling 1,000km a day.
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Small-scale schemes are replacing dirty diesel with clean electricity in remote areas – and ensuring a just transition
When the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, Roxana Borda Mamani had to leave Mexico, where she was studying for her degree in rural development and food security, and return to her remote village in the Peruvian Amazon.
At the time, the Indigenous community in Alto Mishagua had neither an internet connection nor a reliable energy source. “How am I going to study?” Borda asked. “With energy from the sun,” replied her friend, a fellow member of the Latin American Observatory for Energy Geopolitics at the Brazil-based Federal University of Latin American Integration (Unila).
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Jaguars, giant armadillos and ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world
In the Gran Chaco forest, vast green expanses – home to jaguars, giant armadillos and howler monkeys – have turned to fields of dust. The forest once brimmed with life, says Bashe Nuhem, a member of the Indigenous Qom community, but then came a road, and soon after that logging companies. “It was an invasion. Loggers came without any consultation and families moved away. Those that stayed were left with only a cemetery of trees,” she says.
The Gran Chaco is South America’s second-largest forest after the Amazon; its 100m hectares (247m acres) stretch across Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia. It is also one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world – host to more than 3,400 species of plants, 500 birds, 150 mammals, 120 reptiles and 100 amphibians.
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Weardale, North Pennines: This one is showing its worth, teeming with aphids, ready to kickstart a vast and far-reaching food web
Sunbeams flicker through the translucent young foliage of the sycamore canopy overhead. A shadow darts among them: a blackcap, pecking aphids from the underside of the leaves.
The insects hatched from overwintering eggs in early April, congregating on loosening bud scales, waiting for tender new leaves to unfurl. Now there are legions of them, aligned along leaf veins, hypodermic stylets plugged in, siphoning sweet sap while simultaneously giving birth to more. They stand with regimented parade-ground spacing, just close enough to stay in touch with their long antennae. A shiver of fidgeting sweeps through the colony as the blackcap approaches.
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Mount Augustus snail, among largest in world, can live for decades and eats slugs and earthworms
A large rare carnivorous New Zealand snail has been filmed laying an egg from its neck for the first time, in a delightfully icky stroke of luck.
The department of conservation, which has been managing a captive population of Powelliphanta augusta,or the Mount Augustus snail, for almost two decades, was undertaking a routine weight check when a small, white egg started emerging from a snail’s neck.
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With less than a month before the start of the 2025 hurricane season, residents are still recovering from catastrophic damage from the past two years
Idalia. Debby. Helene.
Not visiting friends, not neighbors. All hurricanes that have not yet faded into memory for the residents of Taylor county in Florida, where all three powerful storms hit in just two years.
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Commoners say restrictive grazing may be raising risk of fires like one that scorched 500ha of moorland
The spot where the wildfire broke out could hardly have been worse. Cut Hill is one of the remotest and highest peaks on Dartmoor, miles from any road, a place of tussocky, ankle-turning terrain.
And the weeks of hot weather meant the molinia, the moorland grass, was as tinder dry as farmers can remember it at this time of year. Once it took hold, on Sunday, the fire raged.
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From a New Forest giant inspiring an asthmatic teen to a herd of animal puppets walking to the Arctic Circle, theatre far and wide is taking action – but with energy and optimism, rather than doom-laden tales
Climate stories are typically defined by despair. The future we are told of is such a tragic, barren dystopia, it’s hard to look at head-on. But a flood of theatre-makers are writing their way past fear into something more useful, inspiring action through love, music, puppetry and folklore. “The ones who profit most from the idea that we’re doomed are the oil companies and the people massively polluting our planet,” reasons playwright Flora Wilson Brown. “If we allow ourselves to think there’s nothing we can do, we won’t do anything. There’s still time to act.”
Wilson Brown rejects this nightmarish narrative in her play, The Beautiful Future Is Coming, at Bristol Old Vic. Exploring the impact of the climate crisis through the eyes of three couples, the play jumps between 1856, 2027 and 2100. In the scenes set in the past, life is returned to Eunice Foote, the real scientist who discovered the greenhouse effect years before the man who took credit for it; in the future, we visit the Svalbard seed vault, where humanity has stashed the ambition of life on another planet. “It’s about making the impact emotional,” Wilson Brown says, “rather than statistical.”
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Trade in uncertified hardwood illegally logged in Chocó rainforest and imported by US and Europe is financing paramilitaries, says Environmental Investigation Agency
The Atrato River winds through the dense rainforest of Colombia’s Chocó region for nearly 400 miles (600km) before spilling into the Caribbean Sea. Some of these tropical forests are among the wettest on Earth. Their flooded lowlands and swollen rivers are so impenetrable they have acted as an evolutionary barrier, making Chocó a haven for rare and remarkable species found nowhere else on the planet.
“We have so many animals that you won’t even know the names of many of them,” says María Mosquera, a community leader in the region, whose name has been changed to protect her identity.
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Ljudi koji jedu više ultra prerađene hrane imaju veću vjerojatnost da će imati rane znakove Parkinsonove bolesti u usporedbi s onima koji jedu vrlo malo ultra prerađene hrane, pokazuje nova studija.
Opstruktivna sleep apneja, stanje koje uzrokuje niže razine kisika tijekom spavanja, povezana je s degeneracijom moždanih regija povezanih s pamćenjem oštećenjem malih krvnih žila u mozgu, sugerira nova studija.
Jetra je poznata po svojoj izvanrednoj sposobnosti regeneracije, ali ta moć iscjeljivanja uvelike ovisi o djelovanju njezinih rezidualnih imunoloških stanica. Nova studija stavlja u središte pozornost makrofage, stručnjake za čišćenje i popravak jetre, otkrivajući da se te stanice brzo prilagođavaju nakon ozljede kako bi uklonile ostatke i podržale oporavak tkiva.
Nova studija otkriva da su određeni metaboliti kofeina u urinu povezani s rizikom od dijabetičke retinopatije kod muškaraca, nudeći obećavajući put prema neinvazivnim biomarkerima za rani probir i prevenciju bolesti.
Mnoge žene teško pronalaze sredstva koja bi im pomogla u upravljanju simptomima menopauze. Za žene koje žive s ozbiljnom mentalnom bolešću, potreba za dodatnom podrškom i edukacijom tijekom menopauze je još veća, ukazuje nova studija.
Zdrava prehrana u djetinjstvu povezana je s time da djevojčice imaju prvu menstruaciju u starijoj dobi u odnosu na one koje su konzumirale manje zdravu prehranu, ukazuje nova studija.
Pridodavanje sokova od rajčice i miješanog voća, koji su bogati antioksidansima, terapiji za astmu kod djece, dovelo je do bolje kontrole simptoma astme i sretnijeg, zdravijeg života, bez nuspojava, pokazuju rezultati novog kliničkog ispitivanja.
Rezultati nove studije utvrdili su da nizak šećer u krvi, ili hipoglikemija, može potaknuti razgradnju krvno-retinalne barijere, važne granice koja regulira protok hranjivih tvari, otpada i vode u i iz mrežnice.
Međunarodni tim znanstvenika utvrdio je sličnosti u mehanizmima dijabetesa i raka, naime, protein PPARγ, koji je ključan za regulaciju metaboličkih procesa, također može utjecati na rast stanica raka prostate. Već je poznato da je PPARγ meta određenih lijekova koji se koriste za liječenje dijabetesa tipa 2. Rezultati studije ukazuju na to da bi takvi lijekovi mogli predstavljati i obećavajući pristup liječenju raka prostate.
Konzumiranje previše cimeta može utjecati na to kako vaše tijelo apsorbira neke lijekove, pokazuje novo istraživanje. Iako male količine cimeta mogu ponuditi zdravstvene prednosti, znanstvenici upozoravaju da prečesta ili velika upotreba cimeta može dovesti do interakcija lijekova.