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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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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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Experts say climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure among factors driving water conflicts
Water-related violence has almost doubled since 2022 and little is being done to understand and address the trend and prevent new and escalating risks, experts have said.
There were 419 incidents of water-related violence recorded in 2024, up from 235 in 2022, according to the Pacific Institute, a US-based thinktank.
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Devon:We saw massive mounds of soil and pine needles where ants were hibernating – but not all of them
We pulled into the frosty car park just as the sun was rising. It was early in the morning and I was still a little bit sleepy, but the sharp winter air woke me up. The tall oak trees that surrounded the car park looked like they were crying icy tears. Everything was silent. We set off into the cold, solemn woods with our dog charging ahead.
That’s when I saw it! Further on down the path, there was a huge mound of soil and pine needles. It was a wood ant nest! I took a closer look and, to my surprise, a few ants were dozily trundling around it.
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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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Pollution from wood burners kills thousands but proposed emissions limit would cut toxic particles by 10%
New wood-burning stoves will carry a health warning highlighting the impact of the air pollution they produce, under UK government plans.
Ministers have also proposed cutting the limit on the smoke emitted from wood burners by 80%. However, the measure would only apply to new stoves, most of which already meet the stricter limit. The new limit would cut the annual toxic emissions from wood burning in the UK by only 10% over the next decade, according to the consultation.
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This year’s RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, which begins on Friday, could reveal ‘some surprise migratory visitors’
The chances of spotting a fieldfare or redwing in 2026 have risen, thanks to cold and unsettled weather in Europe, prompting a bumper year in birds migrating to the UK.
The RSPB highlighted the trend on the eve of the Big Garden Birdwatch, an annual event that constitutes the world’s largest garden wildlife survey, which will take place between 23 and 25 January.
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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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Electric van sales are behind government targets, but those fleets that have switched are seeing a real difference
Swinging a fully laden electric van around a training centre in Bishop’s Stortford feels easy, with instant acceleration that belies the racks of heavy equipment in the back. Perhaps too easy, as the sudden shriek of its proximity sensor suggests the Guardian was a whisker away from a bill for some new paintwork.
The van in question belongs to Openreach, BT’s fibre broadband subsidiary. It is one of 6,000 electric vans out of 23,400 in Britain’s second-largest commercial fleet – and a further 1,000 are expected to be added by March.
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Wolves killed more than 2,100 reindeer in Finland last year, and herders are blaming the Ukraine war
Juha Kujala no longer knows how many reindeer will return to his farm from the forest each December. The 54-year-old herder releases his animals into the wilderness on the 830-mile Finnish-Russian border each spring to grow fat on lichens, grass and mushrooms, just as his ancestors have done for generations.
But since 2022, grisly discoveries of reindeer skeletons on the forest floor have disrupted this ancient way of life. The culprits, according to Kujala: wolves from Russia.
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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.
Visoki indeks tjelesne mase (ITM) mogao bi uzrokovati veći rizik od vaskularne demencije (kombinacija vaskularne + nespecificirane demencije), tvrdi nova studija. Inače, učinak visokog ITM-a na demenciju uglavnom djeluje putem visokog krvnog tlaka.
Osteoporoza (smanjena mineralizacija kostiju) predstavlja veliki izazov za zdravo starenje. Ipak, još uvijek postoji malo biomarkera rizika koji se mogu razviti kako bi zadovoljili ovu rastuću potrebu. No, nova studija sugerira da rutinska krvna pretraga kreatinina može pomoći u prepoznavanju ljudi s većim rizikom od osteoporoze i prijeloma.
Rezultati nove studije provedene u Kini pokazali su, da su razine mokraćne kiseline u serumu pozitivno povezane s opterećenjem fibrilacije atrija na način ovisan o dozi. U ovoj studiji opterećenje fibrilacije atrija definirano je kao udio trajanja fibrilacije atrija u ukupnom vremenu praćenja.
