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Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows
The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026, analysis has found.
Meanwhile, the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget, according to the research by Oxfam.
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Alnmouth, Northumberland: They were once the rocky abode of a burrowing worm, and are normally found at sea not on the beach
Each time we visit this beach, the landscape of the strand has changed. Giant boulders are exposed or disappear completely. Bladderwrack accumulates in spongy piles – tricky to walk on – then is taken back by the sea to leave smooth clean sand. Sometimes there’s sea coal, at other times heaps of periwinkles and limpets. Wind and tides are forever shaping and reshaping the coast.
Today, after a turbulent sea, there are crunchy razor clams underfoot. Sharp-edged, they were named after the cut-throat razors used for wet shaves. These are molluscs that drag themselves beneath the sand using strong muscular “feet”. To make their downward passage smoother they shoot out a jet of water, which led to the delightful Scottish name of spoots. Their pale shells stand out against the background of sea‑moulded nuggets of coal, along with broken crab claws and the spiral skeletons of whelks.
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Swedish producer is trying to to accelerate the process of extracting the elements vital for hi-tech products
It is deep winter with temperatures dropping to -20C. The sun never rises above the horizon, instead bathing Sweden’s most northerly town of Kiruna in a blue crepuscular light, or “civil twilight” as it is known, for two or three hours a day stretching visibility a few metres, notwithstanding heavy snow.
But 900 metres below the arctic conditions, a team of 20 gather every day, forgoing the brief glimpse of natural light and spearheading the EU’s race to mine its own rare earths.Despite identification of several deposits around the continent, and some rare earth refineries including Solvay in France, there are no operational rare earth mines in Europe.
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Experts and community trying to untangle mystery of outburst that saw water travel almost 10km overland into a bigger lake
Manoel Dixon had just finished dinner one night last May when a phone dinged nearby with a Facebook message.
Dixon, 26, was at his family’s hunting camp near their northern Quebec home town of Waswanipi. They knew the fellow hunter who was messaging Dixon’s father, but what he wrote didn’t make sense.
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Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the climate crisis
The world’s oceans absorbed colossal amounts of heat in 2025, setting yet another new record and fuelling more extreme weather, scientists have reported.
More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s carbon pollution is taken up by the oceans. This makes ocean heat one of the starkest indicators of the relentless march of the climate crisis, which will only end when emissions fall to zero. Almost every year since the start of the millennium has set a new ocean heat record.
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Stirling Distillery project risks being viewed as heresy but it says it wants to make the industry more sustainable
Whisky drinkers and tourists are often bewitched by the amber rows of malt whisky that line the shelves of Scotland’s bars, restaurants and hotels.
So proposals from one of Scotland’s smallest distilleries could be viewed by many as heresy.
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This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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Charity plans to make stately homes more welcoming by inviting visitors to use furniture and reading rooms
There was a time, not so long ago, when a visit to a National Trust stately home could be a staid affair and sitting on the furniture tended to be discouraged, with pine cones or teasels often placed on chairs to remind people not to perch.
This year, one of the aims of the conservation charity will be to make people feel more at ease in its grand houses and, where practical, allow them to sit on historic chairs and use libraries and reading rooms rather than simply peer into them.
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Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profits – and dangers – of mass producing meat and milk have only grown
Written and read by Eric Schlosser
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Rigby saved his Yarck home but many were lost. Another resident says: ‘No one actually knows how bad it is. So many livestock are dead’
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On the outskirts of Yarck, a small farming town in central Victoria, the ground is still smouldering. Gumtrees are flickering with flames as white ash whips through the air.
Across the region houses are reduced to warped steel, with brick chimneys often the only thing left standing.
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Redovita tjelesna aktivnost, posebno hodanje, može značajno smanjiti umor kod osoba s rakom debelog crijeva, tvrdi nova studija. Naime, razmjeri umora značajno su se poboljšali unutar nekoliko godina ako su pacijenti s rakom debelog crijeva usvojili režim vježbanja.
Nova studija sugerira da inhibitor imunološke kontrolne točke, durvalumab, može ponuditi nove mogućnosti liječenja za pacijente koji žive s rakom pluća malih stanica (SCLC). Međutim, njegova cijena postavlja pitanja o održivosti, prevenciji i dostupnosti.
Potencijalno više od 90% slučajeva Alzheimerove bolesti ne bi se dogodilo bez doprinosa jednog gena (APOE gena), prema novoj analizi koju su vodili znanstvenici s UCL-a. Znanstvenici su također otkrili da se gotovo polovica svih slučajeva demencije vjerojatno ne bi pojavila bez utjecaja gena.
Dojenje može smanjiti rizike od depresije i anksioznosti kod majki u kasnijem životu do 10 godina nakon trudnoće, sugeriraju rezultati nove studije. Uočene povezanosti bile su očite za bilo koje, isključivo i kumulativno (najmanje 12 mjeseci) dojenje.
Koristeći ribosomski inženjering, japanski znanstvenici sa Shinshu University uveli su mutacije koje utječu na mehanizam sinteze proteina probiotika Lacticasebacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG). Ovi mutirani LGG-ovi pokazuju promijenjenu ekspresiju površinskih proteina, i jače prianjaju uz crijevne stanice i potiču pojačanu aktivaciju imunoloških stanica, što ih čini superprobioticima.
Kolera, teška bakterijska infekcija koja uzrokuje proljev i ubija ako se ne liječi, može se pobijediti prehranom bogatom proteinima, pokazuju rezultati nove studije. Naime, pokazalo se, da prehrana bogata kazeinom, glavnim proteinom u mlijeku i siru, kao i pšeničnim glutenom, može napraviti dramatičnu razliku u količini bakterija kolere koje mogu zaraziti crijeva.
Novo kliničko ispitivanje provedeno u Danskoj pokazalo je da aminokiselina arginin, koja se normalno nalazi u ljudskoj slini, može modificirati stvaranje plaka na zubima, čime štiti od karijesa. Naime, nakon njegove primjene došlo je do povišenja pH, mjenjanja strukture dentalnog biofilma i smanjenja štetnih bakterija, ističući potencijal arginina u sprječavanju karijesa.
Većina razgovora o majčinom mlijeku usredotočuje se na teme poput hranjivih tvari, antitijela i vremena vezivanja, a ne na bakterije. No, ispada da ljudsko mlijeko nosi vlastitu malu zajednicu mikroba, koja može pomoći u oblikovanju crijevnog mikrobioma djeteta u razvoju - što zauzvrat može utjecati na apsorpciju hranjivih tvari, metaboličku regulaciju, razvoj imunološkog sustava i još mnogo toga.
Švedski znanstvenici s Karolinska Instituta otkrili su da mikroglija, imunološke stanice živčanog sustava pomažu u zaštiti leđne moždine od oštećenja povezanih sa starenjem. Smatra se, da ovo otkriće može doprinijeti novim spoznajama o nastanku određenih neuroloških bolesti.
Novi dokazi upućuju na to da hvatanje željeza u neupotrebljivim oblicima može izgladnjeti ranjive neurone, što dovodi u pitanje desetljeća razmišljanja o toksičnosti željeza kod Parkinsonove bolesti i otvara nova terapijska pitanja.
