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Subsidies awarded to eight new projects help keep UK on track to decarbonise by 2030
Will Great Britain’s offshore wind subsidy auction mean lower energy bills?
Ed Miliband: With this record wind power auction, we’ve proved the rightwing doubters wrong
A make-or-break auction for the UK government’s goal to create a clean electricity system by 2030 has awarded subsidy contracts to enough offshore windfarms to power 12m homes.
In Great Britain’s most competitive auction for renewable subsidies to date, energy companies vied for contracts that guarantee the price for each unit of clean electricity they generate.
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Data leads scientists to declare 2015 Paris agreement to keep global heating below 1.5C ‘dead in the water’
Last year was the third hottest on record, scientists have said, with mounting fossil fuel pollution behind “exceptional” temperatures.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said 2025 had continued a three-year streak of “extraordinary global temperatures” during which surface air temperatures averaged 1.48C above preindustrial levels.
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Energy company also under pressure from worse oil trading performance and weaker oil prices
BP has said it expects to write down the value of its struggling green energy business by as much as $5bn (£3.7bn), as it refocuses on fossil fuels under its new chair, Albert Manifold.
The oil company said the writedowns were mostly related to its gas and low-carbon energy divisions in its “transition businesses”, but added that wiping between $4bn and $5bn off their value would not affect its underlying profits when it reports its full-year results in February.
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Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say the discoveries are probably the result of contamination and false positives. One chemist called the concerns “a bombshell”.
Studies claiming to have revealed micro and nanoplastics in the brain, testes, placentas, arteries and elsewhere were reported by media across the world, including the Guardian. There is no doubt that plastic pollution of the natural world is ubiquitous, and present in the food and drink we consume and the air we breathe. But the health damage potentially caused by microplastics and the chemicals they contain is unclear, and an explosion of research has taken off in this area in recent years.
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Waresley, Cambridgeshire:In a near-freezing lake, I’m treated to an up-close view of one of my favourite birds
The spring-fed lake is a picture of tranquillity this morning. On the far side, ivy-clad trees touch trunks with their watery counterparts, creating an image of a child’s mirror painting folded along the shoreline. Only the soft blurring of branches distinguishes reflection from reality.
The scene might look serene, but I must focus on my breathing to stay calm as I lower myself slowly into the water, which has chilled to a wintry 6C. I started cold water swimming last month, hoping it would help relieve the chronic pain caused by adenomyosis. It’s only my fourth session, and I’m wondering if I have the confidence to swim across the lifeguarded lake when a quick movement on the water catches my attention. I spot a dumpy ball of fluff that isn’t there.
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Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago – a crisis fuelled by climate change
The world is losing forests to fire at an unsustainable rate, experts have warned.
Wildfires have always been part of nature’s cycle, but in recent decades their scale, frequency and intensity in carbon-rich forests have surged.
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Seven out of 10 targets have little likelihood of being met by 2030, Office for Environmental Protection says
The government will not meet its targets to save wildlife in England and is failing on almost all environmental measures, the Office for Environmental Protection watchdog has said.
In a damning report, the OEP has found that seven of the 10 targets set in the Environment Act 2021 have little likelihood of being met by 2030, which is the deadline set in law.
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For Hannah Thorogood, a first-generation Lincolnshire farmer, grazing her sheep on solar land gave her a leg-up in the industry
On a blustery Lincolnshire morning, Hannah Thorogood paused between two ranks of solar panels. Her sheep nosedived into the grass under their shelter and began to graze.
“When I first started out, 18 acres and 20 sheep was as much as I could afford,” said the first-generation farmer. “Now, because I can graze this land for free, I have 250 acres and over 200 sheep. Solar grazing has given me a massive leg-up.”
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Britain’s winter thrushes, the swallows and swifts of the season, were strangely absent until recently
Just as swallows and swifts are the constant sight and sound of spring and summer, so our two winter thrushes – fieldfares and redwings – are usually ever-present during the autumn and winter months.
Last autumn, however, the fields and hedgerows around my Somerset home were unusually devoid of these birds, while their favourite food – the hawthorn’s bright scarlet berries – remained uneaten.
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Professional mermaids risk hypothermia, seasickness and the cling of skin-tight silicone, but the reward is becoming an ‘ocean ambassador’ – and a bit more colour in the world
Propelled by a shimmering silicon tail, Katrin Gray spins underwater, blowing kisses to the audience as her long, copper hair floats around her face. Her seemingly effortless movement is anything but – a professional mermaid’s free diving and performance skills require training, practice and total concentration.
Mermaiding has become a global cottage industry, with pageants, conventions, retreats and meet-ups, where people gather in “pods” to practise their dolphin kicks. Makers create bespoke tail flukes, bejewelled bras, mermaid hair and even prosthetic gills for professional and hobbyist “seasters”. There is even a Netflix reality series called MerPeople, which documents the occasionally perilous journey of several aspiring professional merfolk. “No dead mermaids” is the motto of one business featured.
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Pomaganje ženama da održe krvni tlak na normalnoj razini tijekom trudnoće moglo bi smanjiti rizik od komplikacija u trudnoći, tvrdi nova studija. Naime, viši krvni tlak majke povećava rizik od višestrukih nepovoljnih ishoda trudnoće, uključujući prijevremeni porod, rađanje manje djece, potrebu za induciranim porodom, gestacijski dijabetes i potrebu za prijemom djeteta na odjel intenzivne neonatalne njege.
Znanstvenici su otkrili da blokiranje ključnog staničnog enzima za koje se smatralo da štiti od masne bolesti jetre može umjesto toga povećati rizik od kroničnog oštećenja jetre i raka kako starimo. Naime, gubitak enzima kaspaze-2 potiče abnormalni rast stanica jetre, izazivajući upalu, fibrozu i značajno veći rizik od raka jetre.
Nova studija je proučavala utjecaj temperature noćne spavaće sobe na varijabilnost otkucaja srca kod starijih osoba, te otkrila da čak i umjereno tople noći mogu ometati sposobnost srca da se oporavi tijekom spavanja, što ističe skriveni zdravstveni rizik porasta noćnih temperatura.
Jedan od vodećih okidača za multiplu sklerozu (MS) je infekcija Epstein-Barrovim virusom. Međutim, određene genske varijante također igraju važnu ulogu. Znanstvenici sa University of Zurich sada su pokazali da je molekularna interakcija između okolišnih i genetskih čimbenika rizika, EBV infekcije i HLA-DR15 haplotipa, ono što u konačnici pokreće bolest.
Nedovoljan unos likopena - hranjive tvari koja se nalazi u rajčicama i drugom crvenom voću - povezan je sa značajno većim rizikom od bolesti desni kod starijih osoba, pokazala je nova studija u kojoj je sudjelovalo više od 1.200 osoba u dobi od 65 do 79 godina.
Novo istraživanje utvrdilo je da je neuroinflamacija potaknuta mikroglijom (imunološkim stanicama u mozgu) primarni pokretač dugotrajnih negativnih osjećaja uzrokovanih ponovljenim, produljenim prekomjernim pijenjem alkohola.
Znanstvenici Sinai Healtha pokazali su krvni test koji može predvidjeti Crohnovu bolest godinama prije pojave simptoma bolesti, otvarajući vrata ranoj dijagnozi i potencijalno prevenciji.
Stope multiplog mijeloma, drugog najčešćeg raka krvi u SAD-u, su u porastu, a od multiplog mijeloma dvostruko češće obolijevaju muškaraci nego žene, pokazali su rezultati nove studije.
Desetljeće dugo istraživanje žena u postmenopauzi sugerira da čaj može ponuditi skromne koristi za kosti, dok vrlo visok unos kave može izazvati zabrinutost za snagu kuka kasnije u životu.
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.
