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Marina Silva says contentious plan would be ‘ethical answer’ to climate crisis but does not commit Brazil to it
Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva, has urged all countries to have the courage to address the need for a fossil fuel phaseout, calling the drawing up of a roadmap for it an “ethical” response to the climate crisis.
She emphasised, however, that the process would be voluntary for those governments that wished to participate, and “self-determined”.
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Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
Insect-eating bird populations in France appear to be making a tentative recovery after a ban on bee-harming pesticides, according to the first study to examine how wildlife is returning in Europe.
Neonicotinoids are the world’s most common class of insecticides, widely used in agriculture and for flea control in pets. By 2022, four years after the European Union banned neonicotinoid use in fields, researchers observed that France’s population of insect-eating birds had increased by 2%-3%. These included blackbirds, blackcaps and chaffinches, which feed on insects as adults and as chicks.
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The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken five years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all
It was an early morning in June 2024 and along the coast of Baja California in Mexico, scientists on the Pacific Storm research vessel were finishing their coffee and preparing for a long day searching for some of the most elusive creatures on the planet. Suddenly a call came from the bridge: “Whales! Starboard side!”
For the next few hours, what looked like a couple of juvenile beaked whales kept surfacing and disappearing until finally Robert Pitman, a now-retired researcher at Oregon State University, fired a small arrow from a modified crossbow at the back of one of them.
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Abernethy, Cairngorms: Even in this part-plantation where there is much uniformity, high winds ensure the woodland can never stay the same
After the summer’s cacophony of greens, the broadleafs among the Scots pines are turning – the larches to green-yellow and bronze, the birches to a warmer yellow, but turning to bronze and copper too. I’m walking along a path with a line of larchesand mostly pines behind. Storm Amy has made its presence felt, and a number of trees are windthrown.
Through new gaps I see a couple of gnarly “granny” pines I’d not noticed before, so I head in towards them, crackling over fallen twigs and branches festooned with lichens. This area is for the most part plantation, so the trees are quite uniform in age, spacing and girth, with some granny outliers that speak to an earlier time. I find a storm path of sorts, diagonal lines where trees have dominoed, or where one has partially fallen and is resting on another. Each points north-east to a fault.
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Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
Nature is not a blocker to housing growth, an inquiry by MPs has found, in direct conflict with claims made by ministers.
Toby Perkins, the Labour chair of the environmental audit committee, said nature was being scapegoated, and that rather than being a block to growth, it was necessary for building resilient towns and neighbourhoods.
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City council and regional authority collaborate to guarantee renewable mobile energy for next summer’s festival season
Artists including Billie Eilish and Neil Young and festivals across the world have taken action to make their concerts more sustainable by harnessing green power.
The concept is being taken a step further in the south-west of England next summer when a “clean power hub” is set up in Bristol that festivals, large gigs and film crews will be able to tap into.
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Once escapees from the pet trade, Los Angeles’s feral parrots have become a vibrant part of city life, and could even aid conservation in their native homelands
A morning mist hung over the palm trees as birds chattered and cars roared by on the streets of Pasadena. It was a scene that evoked a tropical island rather than a bustling city in north-east Los Angeles county.
“It feels parrot-y,” says Diego Blanco, a research assistant at Occidental College’s Moore Laboratory of Zoology, nodding to the verdant flora that surrounds us: tall trees and ornamental bushes with berries.
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Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions
“It broke my heart.” Surangel Whipps, president of the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, was sitting in the front row of the UN’s general assembly in New York when Donald Trump made a long and rambling speech, his first to the UN since his re-election, on 23 September.
Whipps was prepared for fury and bombast from the US president, but what followed was shocking. Trump’s rant on the climate crisis – a “green scam”, “the greatest con job ever perpetrated”, “predictions made by stupid people” – was an unprecedented attack on science and global action from a major world leader.
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Host uses Indigenous concepts and changes agenda to help delegates agree on ways to meet existing climate goals
Shipping containers, cruise ships, river boats, schools and even army barracks have been pressed into service as accommodation for the 50,000 plus people descending on the Amazon: this year’s Cop30 climate summit is going to be, in many ways, an unconventional one.
Located in Belém, a small city at the mouth of the Amazon river, the Brazilian hosts have been criticised for the exorbitant cost of scarce hotel rooms and hastily vacated apartments. Many delegations have slimmed down their presence, while business leaders have decamped to hold their own events in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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Brazil’s president welcomes world leaders while navigating divided government, promising action on deforestation and emissions
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has welcomed world leaders to Belém for the first climate summit in the Amazon, where conservationists hope he can be a champion for the rainforest and its people.
But with a divided administration, a hostile Congress and 20th-century developmentalist instincts, this global figurehead of the centre left has a balancing act to perform in advocating protection of nature and a reduction of emissions.
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Nova studija pomaže objasniti zašto neki ljudi s multiplim mijelomom, vrstom raka krvi, ostaju u remisiji dugi niz godina nakon primanja CAR T stanične terapije, dok se kod drugih rak brže vraća.
Gotovo svaka treća osoba diljem svijeta pati od glavobolje, što pogađa gotovo 3 milijarde ljudi, pokazuju podaci iz nove studije. Glavobolje, posebno migrena, i dalje su glavni globalni zdravstveni izazov, što naglašava potrebu za učinkovitim strategijama liječenja i prevencije.
Američki znanstvenici otkrili su da je blaga dilatacija ili povećanje pankreasnog kanala faktor rizika za adenokarcinom pankreasnog kanala koji treba pratiti kod osoba s visokim rizikom. Inače, predviđa se da će adenokarcinom pankreasnog kanala postati drugi vodeći uzrok smrti od raka u SAD-u do 2030. godine.
Hipertenzija oštećuje krvne žile, neurone i bijelu tvar u mozgu mnogo prije nego što stanje uzrokuje mjerljiv porast krvnog tlaka, tvrdi nova studija. Promjene pomažu objasniti zašto je hipertenzija glavni faktor rizika za razvoj kognitivnih poremećaja, poput vaskularnog kognitivnog oštećenja i Alzheimerove bolesti.
Nedavno provedena studija pokazala je, da je hiperemeza gravidarum, teški oblik mučnine koji se javlja tijekom trudnoće, povezan s depresijom. Žene koje su iskusile tešku mučninu imale su veću vjerojatnost da će imati depresiju i prije i nakon trudnoće te da će im se ranija dijagnoza depresije nakon trudnoće postaviti.
Hrvatska udruga bolničkih liječnika (HUBOL), u suradnji i uz podršku 12 zdravstvenih organizacija, predstavila je danas u Hrvatskom liječničkom zboru prijedlog reforme hitne medicine. Cilj ove reforme je učiniti hitnu medicinsku skrb dostupnijom, bržom i sigurnijom za pacijente, a uvjete rada boljim i održivim za sve zdravstvene djelatnike.
Rak debelog crijeva nekada se povezivao sa starošću, ali dijagnoze su postale sve češće kod odraslih osoba u dobi od 50 godina ili mlađih, posebno u zemljama s visokim prihodima. Nova studija sugerira važnu vezu s ultraprerađenom hranom. Naime, analizirajući prehranu i rezultate kolonoskopije gotovo 30.000 žena, otkrio se, da su žene koje su konzumirale najviše ultraprerađene hrane imale 45% veći rizik od razvoja adenoma, koji mogu biti prekursori ranog kolorektalnog karcinoma.
Globalni broj slučajeva tuberkuloze (TB) ponovno je porastao prošle godine, dosegnuvši najvišu razinu u povijesti, pokazuju novi podaci Svjetske zdravstvene organizacije (WHO).
Konzumiranje ultraprerađene hrane povećava rizik od zdravstvenih problema kod mladih odraslih osoba koji doprinose dijabetesu, upozorava nova studija. Povećanje unosa ultraprerađene hrane povezano je s većim rizikom od predijabetesa, kod kojeg visoka razina šećera u krvi u ranoj fazi može dovesti do dijabetesa tipa 2.
Stopa djece i tinejdžera s visokim krvnim tlakom (hipertenzijom) diljem svijeta gotovo se udvostručila u posljednja dva desetljeća, tvrdi novo izvješću. Naime, u 2020. godini više od 6% djece i adolescenata mlađih od 19 godina imalo je visoki krvni tlak, u odnosu na oko 3% u 2000. godini.
