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Fifteen years after a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, only bears, raccoons and boar are seen on the streets. But the authorities and some locals want people to move back
Norio Kimura pauses to gaze through the dirt-flecked window of Kumamachi primary school in Fukushima. Inside, there are still textbooks lying on the desks, pencil cases are strewn across the floor; empty bento boxes that were never taken home.
Along the corridor, shoes line the route the children took when they fled, some still in their indoor plimsolls, as their town was rocked by a magnitude-9 earthquake on the afternoon of 11 March 2011 which went on to cause the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chornobyl.
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Britain among 10 countries to build 100GW grid in North Sea linking countries through subsea cables
The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has said he wants the North Sea to become the “largest reservoir of clean energy worldwide”, as he announced plans to accelerate efforts to link up offshore wind power projects with Europe.
The UK and nine other European countries have agreed to accelerate the rollout of offshore windfarms in the 2030s and build a power grid in the North Sea, in a landmark pact to turn the ageing oil basin into a “clean energy reservoir”.
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The variety and scope of entries to the global Walk of Water photography contest reflect the intimate connection between water and humanity
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Environmental charity to prioritise water capture and storage as it urges gardeners to prepare for ‘new normal’
The Royal Horticultural Society has unveiled emergency plans to protect its gardens from major water shortages in the future.
The environmental charity, which owns and operates five renowned public gardens in England, said on Saturday it will invest in more water-capture and water-management projects in 2026 after severe droughts last year.
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Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: As chief clothes-washer in our home, I see egrets and snowdrops and wonder how anything living in the marsh or riverbank can stay so clean
The dazzling white of snow gave way to sludge underfoot. Then came the heavy rain, returning us to mud and the drabness of late winter.
A ghost rises beside the lake, taking form as it separates itself from the low mist. Against the grey of the sky, the impossible brilliance of its perfect white, metre-wide wingspan is jolting. It’s a little egret, a small, white heron with impressive wings.
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An extraordinary mosaic of wildlife has made Britain’s urban jungle its home
London is the only place in the UK where you can find scorpions, snakes, turtles, seals, peacocks, falcons all in one city – and not London zoo. Step outside and you will encounter a patchwork of writhing, buzzing, bubbling urban microclimates.
Sam Davenport, the director of nature recovery at the London Wildlife Trust, emphasises the sheer variation in habitats that you find in UK cities, which creates an amazing “mosaic” of wildlife.
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Researchers found a new way to filter and destroy Pfas chemicals at 100 times the rate of current systems
New filtration technology developed by Rice University may absorb some Pfas “forever chemicals” at 100 times the rate previously possible, which could dramatically improve pollution control and speed remediations.
Researchers also say they have also found a way to destroy Pfas, though both technologies face a steep challenge in being deployed on an industrial scale.
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As the temperature nears 49C in the Mallee region, residents take refuge in air-conditioned rooms
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In the slanting, late-afternoon summer sun, the fields around the small Australian town of Ouyen – almost 450km north-west of Melbourne – turn the colour of honey. The edges shimmer with silver, that old cruel trick of feigning water where it hasn’t rained for weeks.
Summer is always hot out here in the sparse, flat Mallee, but this year is shaping up to be particularly harsh. Just two weeks ago, on Thursday 8 January, Ouyen got to 47.5C. On Monday it reached 44.3C.
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Therapy lights, sunrise alarm clocks and infrared saunas can all help shake the winter blues as the weather drops
Heated socks and puffy booties: what people in the coldest cities on Earth are wearing
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As a lifelong Canadian, I’m no stranger to that familiar sinking feeling in my chest as the days get shorter, dimmer and colder. I suffer from seasonal affective disorder (Sad), which also affects about one in 20 people in the US.
“Sad is a type of depression that happens at certain times of the year, usually in the fall and winter when there’s less sunlight,” said Dr Stefanie Mazer, a licensed psychologist and founder of the psychology practice Mindwise, Inc. Changes in sunlight can affect your body’s internal clock and levels of serotonin and melatonin, which influence mood and sleep, Mazer explained. People with Sad often feel low energy, sadness and irritability, with noticeable changes in sleeping or eating.
For gentle wake-ups in the morning:
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The most popular posts on r/animalid are exotic lizards and rare birds – but it’s the haziest trail cam screenshots that feel the most dangerous, the most spectacular
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I spent the first decade of my life in Vancouver Island, Canada, in an area rich with parks, lakes and forests. Deer would occasionally wander into our neighbourhood and nibble on the blossoms in our front yard. In that neck of the (literal) woods, mountains and deer also mean cougars.
My sister and I would play at a local park, then walk home along a track parallel to a dense forest. My older sister, being three and a half years ahead of me in life and therefore lightyears ahead of me in wisdom, would helpfully declare that if we encountered a cougar it would attack me, not her, as I’m the smaller prey.
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa je najčešći patogen odgovoran za perzistentne plućne infekcije. Poznato je da se koncentracije željeza u ljudskim plućima znatno razlikuju između zdravstvenog stanja i stanja bolesti. Sada su rezultati nove studije pokazali da željezo iz okoliša olakšava rast i stvaranje biofilma P. aeruginosa koja uzrokuje plućne infekcije, a istovremeno smanjuje njezinu virulenciju. Ova prilagodba posredovana željezom može biti povezana s perzistencijom plućnih infekcija P. aeruginosa, a ovi rezultati zaslužuju daljnja istraživanja.
Pregled više studija ukazuje da su ponavljajuće promjene u crijevnom mikrobiomu povezane s blagim kognitivnim oštećenjem (MCI) i Alzheimerovom bolešću (AD). Istraživanje Alzheimerove bolesti tradicionalno se usredotočuje na genetiku i patologiju mozga, ali sada postoji sve veći interes za to kako crijevni mikrobiom može utjecati na imunitet, metabolizam i moždanu signalizaciju. Disbioza, definirana kao neravnoteža u mikrobiomu, povezana je s upalom i disfunkcijom mozga.
Prema rezultatima nove studije, pušenje cigareta prije 20. godine ostavlja trajan kardiovaskularni učinak, pojačavajući štetu od pušenja i povećavajući rizik od srčanog udara (infarkta miokarda), moždanog udara i rane smrti u odrasloj dobi.
Dvije nedavno objavljene studije ističu ulogu gena zvanog PTPN2 u zaštiti crijeva od štetnih bakterija povezanih s upalnom bolešću crijeva (IBD). Naime, one pokazuju da kada PTPN2 ne funkcionira ispravno, crijeva postaju osjetljivija na infekcije i upale.
Laboratorijsko istraživanje provedeno na miševima pokazalo je da se neuroni koji stare bore s čišćenjem sinaptičkih proteina, prebacujući teret na mikrogliju i otkrivajući kritičnu ranjivost u održavanju proteina mozga.
Znanstvenici s Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai razvili su eksperimentalnu imunoterapiju koja ima nekonvencionalan pristup metastatskom raku: umjesto izravnog djelovanja na stanice raka, cilja stanice koje ih štite.
Od porasta pretilosti i dijabetesa do zdravstvenih nejednakosti, najnoviji podaci American Heart Association (AHA) otkrivaju zašto kardiovaskularne bolesti ostaju dominantna prijetnja zdravlju stanovništva i što se mora promijeniti kako bi se preokrenuo taj trend.
Znanstvenici s University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, razvili su lijek koji djeluje u kombinaciji s bakrom kako bi ubio bakterije, uključujući i superbakteriju meticilin-rezistentni Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Lanac imunoloških reakcija u crijevima - potaknut ključnim signalnim proteinom i porastom broja bijelih krvnih stanica iz koštane srži - mogao bi pomoći u objašnjavanju zašto ljudi s upalnom bolešću crijeva (IBD) imaju veći rizik od raka debelog crijeva, tvrdi nova studija.
Čak i kratki popodnevni odmor može pomoći mozgu da se oporavi i poboljša sposobnost učenja, pokazala je nova studija. Naime, čak je i popodnevni odmor dovoljan za reorganizaciju veza između živčanih stanica kako bi se nove informacije mogle učinkovitije pohranjivati. Do sada se znalo da se ovi učinci javljaju samo nakon punog noćnog sna. No nova studija pokazuje da kratko razdoblje sna može rasteretiti mozak i vratiti ga u stanje spremnosti za učenje.
