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Phil Bellamy’s daughters refuse to ride in his electric car without travel sickness tablets. Are there other solutions?
It was a year in to driving his daughter to school in his new electric vehicle that Phil Bellamy discovered she dreaded the 10-minute daily ride – it made her feel sick in a way no other car did.
As the driver, Bellamy had no problems with the car but his teenage daughters struggled with sickness every time they entered the vehicle. Research has shown this is an issue – people who did not usually have motion sickness in a conventional car found that they did in EVs.
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As Swiss glaciers melt at an ever-faster rate, new species move in and flourish, but entire ecosystems and an alpine culture can be lost
• Photographs by Nicholas JR White
From the slopes behind the village of Ernen, it is possible to see the gouge where the Fiesch glacier once tumbled towards the valley in the Bernese Alps. The curved finger of ice, rumpled like tissue, cuts between high buttresses of granite and gneiss. Now it has melted out of sight.
People here once feared the monstrous ice streams, describing them as devils, but now they dread their disappearance. Like other glaciers in the Alps and globally, the Fiesch is melting at ever-increasing rates. More than ice is lost when the giants disappear: cultures, societies and entire ecosystems are braided around the glaciers.
The Aletsch glacier viewed from Moosfluh, looking towards the Olmenhorn and Eggishorn peaks
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Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman acted legally, but residents complained to Southern Water
A Donald Trump-backing billionaire has been stopped from transporting water in tankers to fill a lake on his Wiltshire estate during a drought.
Southern Water has told tanker companies to cease delivering water to Stephen Schwarzman’s 2,500-acre estate after local residents filmed vehicles going day and night to its grounds.
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Drakes Broughton, Worcestershire: The scourge of rural litter is enough to bring anyone together, even a farmer and us, trying to camp for the night in his field
In deepest rural Worcestershire – unfamiliar country for a mountaineer and a Welshman – we need a place to sleep. Our hedged lane skirts a little copse, and tired eyes pick out a gap; a couple of big steps over the brambles and we’re in. We haul the bike trailer (heavy with cans and bottles, picked up over some 300 miles on England’s dirty roads) into the woods. Damien Gabet, with whom I’m here to wild camp, is on a 1,000-mile journey in the shape of a Lucozade bottle as part of an anti-litter campaign, all the while removing as many plastic bottles as he can fit in his small orange trailer.
Beyond the wood is a field where the corn has been cut: a perfect spot, hidden from view, disturbing no one. Stars start to blink awake as we make our home for the night. Suddenly, the rumble of an engine – a silver Range Rover turns the corner. A familiar weariness grip me: I’m already resigned to being moved on, to take some stick for our trespass.
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The corporate-financed backlash to calls for global climate progress has been greatly empowered by the Trump administration. It’s never been more critical to challenge the misinformation that could turn a crisis into a catastrophe
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A little over a decade ago I published a book, This Changes Everything, which explored the reality of the climate crisis as a confrontation between capitalism and the planet. For a few years after the book came out, it seemed like we might just win a breakthrough. A cascade of large and militant mobilisations pressed the case for keeping warming below 1.5C as global calls for a green new deal grew louder and louder. Countries across the world announced long-term plans to reduce emissions and to hit net-zero targets; so did some of the largest corporations on the planet.
And then … well, we all know what happened. A corporate-financed backlash on all fronts. In the first 100 days of Trump’s second term, his administration took more than 140 actions to roll back environmental rules and push for greater use of fossil fuels. He signed executive orders to ease restrictions on their extraction and export, filled his cabinet with oil industry supporters, gutted federal agencies on the forefront of the climate crisis, and cancelled life-saving environmental justice projects.
Join George Monbiot and special guests on 16 September for a special climate assembly to discuss the growing and dramatic political and corporate threats to the planet. Book tickets – in person or livestream
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Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
More than 750,000 tonnes of liquid from landfills are mixed with sewage at water treatment works and spread on farmland across England each year, it can be revealed.
Generated by hundreds of landfills across the country, leachate – the liquid that drains through landfill waste carrying a cocktail of chemicals – is regularly tankered to sewage treatment works, where it mixes with domestic sewage and industrial effluent to create sludge, also described as “biosolids”.
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Joint response by 25 bodies says proposals to speed up approval of new power plants weaken protection for public
A coalition of civil society groups is warning of the dangers of cutting safety regulations as the government pushes to “rip up the rules” to accelerate the construction of new nuclear power stations.
The 25 groups from communities neighbouring nuclear sites have submitted a joint response to a consultation by the nuclear regulatory taskforce, saying its proposals lack “both credibility and rigour”.
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Traditional owners have lost repeated legal challenges over the 40-gigalitre-per year water licence at Singleton Station – and now they’re taking it to the high court
When parts of nature die and species are lost, traditional owners like Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O’Keefe feel deep grief.
In Kaytetye country, near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, life and death are controlled by access to water.
Traditional owner Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O’Keefe, a Kaytetye-Warlpiri woman, is one of the leading voices opposing the groundwater licence
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Quantum sensing, satellite tracking and AI are part of an accelerating arms race in detection that should prompt a re-evaluation of Australia’s defence strategy
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Military history is littered with the corpses of apex predators.
The Gatling gun, the battleship, the tank. All once possessed unassailable power – then were undermined, in some cases wiped out, by the march of new technology.
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‘I just want them to pay up what they owe me, rehab that country and get the hell out of here,’ says farmer Patricia Goodwin
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Sandstone cliffs rise from the brigalow scrubaround the tin and timber farmhouse of Patricia Goodwin at theback of Bluff, a tiny town in the central Queensland highlands.
One ridge stands out from the rest. Stripped of all vegetation, the blacks and browns of its earthen ramparts loom over the landscape like the citadel of a Mad Max warlord. This is no natural formation – it is the spoil of an open cut metallurgical coalmine.
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Neurodegenerativne bolesti poput Alzheimerove, Parkinsonove i Huntingtonove bolesti karakterizira progresivni gubitak neurona. Rezultirajući iscrpljujući simptomi, poput gubitka pamćenja i kognitivnih funkcija te motoričkog oštećenja, mogu značajno smanjiti kvalitetu života pacijenata, ograničavajući ih na cjelodnevnu njegu.
Imunomodulatorna svojstva ginsenga prvenstveno se pripisuju njegovim aktivnim spojevima, ginsenozidima i polisaharidima. Ginsenozidi Rg1 i Rb1 reguliraju proizvodnju citokina inhibirajući proupalne čimbenike poput TNF-α i IL-6, a istovremeno potiču protuupalni IL-10. Ova dvosmjerna modulacija pomaže u održavanju imunološke homeostaze.
Crohnova bolest, vrsta upalne bolesti crijeva (IBD), pogađa milijune ljudi diljem svijeta. Bolest je kronična i vrlo nepredvidiva, a manifestira se simptomima poput bolova u trbuhu, proljeva - ponekad s krvlju - i jakog umora. Upala također može uzrokovati sužavanje crijeva i stvaranje fistula.
Primarni rak jetre treći je vodeći uzrok smrti povezanih s rakom, od čega hepatocelularni karcinom (HCC) čini otprilike 90% svih slučajeva raka jetre. S obzirom na to da je razvoj HCC-a multifaktorski i višestupanjski proces, njegova sve veća incidencija naglašava potrebu za razumijevanjem njegovih molekularnih mehanizama i identificiranjem potencijalnih biomarkera i terapijskih ciljeva.
Rezultati nove studije otkrivaju kako sitne čestice plastike zaglavljene u arterijama mogu povećati rizik od srčanih bolesti, zahtijevajući hitnu pozornost kliničara i državnih tijela.
Osobe s kroničnom nesanicom (insomnijom) mogu iskusiti brži pad pamćenja i sposobnosti razmišljanja kako stare, uz promjene na mozgu koje se mogu vidjeti na snimkama, nego osobe koje nemaju kroničnu nesanicu, pokazuje nova studija.
Zeleni čaj poznat po svojim ljekovitim i antioksidativnim svojstvima široko je proučavan zbog svojih blagotvornih učinaka na metaboličke bolesti, poput pretilosti i dijabetesa tipa 2. Nedavne studije otkrile su da tretman zelenim čajem smanjuje tjelesnu težinu i značajno poboljšava osjetljivost na glukozu i inzulinsku rezistenciju kod pretilih miševa. Ovi rezultati pojačavaju potencijalnu relevantnost napitka kao dodatka u liječenju pretilosti kod ljudi.
Osim kolesterola, i aminokiselina homocistein također ima ulogu u ukrućenju aorte, tvrde rezultati nove studije. Naime, povišene razine aminokiseline homocisteina u krvi dovele su do kruće i manje elastične aorte u životinjskom modelu. Smatra se, da ovi rezultati doprinose boljem razumijevanju razvoja kardiovaskularnih bolesti poput ateroskleroze. Inače, mnoge kardiovaskularne bolesti imaju svoje podrijetlo u aortnoj disfunkciji.
Vjerojatnost razvoja demencije snažno je povezana s brojem istodobnih poremećaja mentalnog zdravlja, rastući od dvostruko veće za jedan poremećaj do 11 puta veće za četiri ili više poremećaja, otkriva novo istraživanje.
Rezultati kliničkog ispitivanja u ranoj fazi predstavljeni ovog tjedna na Svjetskoj konferenciji o raku pluća pokazuju da su pacijenti s mezoteliomom - rijetkim rakom sluznice pluća koji može biti uzrokovan izloženošću azbestu - koji su primili kombinaciju dva imunoterapijska lijeka, nivolumaba i ipilimumaba, prije operacije imali uspješne operacije i ohrabrujuće rane ishode.
