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Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit.
Keir Starmer flew to Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon, on Wednesday to join the summit of world leaders hosted by Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva.
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University of Queensland modelling says reef will suffer ‘rapid coral decline’ in coming decades but could still recover if targets met
The Great Barrier Reef will undergo “rapid coral decline” until 2050 but could recover if global heating is kept below 2C, according to the most detailed modelling so far of the future of the world’s biggest coral reef.
The finding contradicts a widely held view that the decline of the oceanic gem would become irreversible as global temperatures rise above 1.5C, with one report last month suggesting the world’s tropical corals had already reached a tipping point of long-term decline.
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Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and major supermarkets want to double amount of beans Britons eat
Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall are among a group of celebrity chefs and supermarkets leading a new campaign to double UK bean consumption by 2028.
There has been a long push for people to include more legumes in their diets – they are climate friendly and healthy. As the UK faces increasing disease related to poor diets as well as increasing food prices, and the campaigners argue that it is the correct time to launch a drive to “bang in some beans” to the nation’s meals.
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Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report finds
Solar geoengineering could increase the ferocity of North Atlantic hurricanes, cause the Amazon rainforest to die back and cause drought in parts of Africa if deployed above only some parts of the planet by rogue actors, a report has warned.
However, if technology to block the sun was used globally and in a coordinated way for a long period – decades or even centuries – there is strong evidence that it would lower the global temperature, the review from the UK’s Royal Society concluded.
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Communities in the middle of new national forest to show how housebuilding can be delivered alongside nature
A new set of forest towns will be built in the area between Oxford and Cambridge, nestled in the middle of a new national forest.
After facing anger from nature groups over the deregulation in the upcoming planning bill, ministers are trying to demonstrate that mass housebuilding can be delivered in conjunction with new nature. The government has promised to plant millions of trees to boost England’s nature.
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Lawyers call for clarity over law as six are found guilty while being stopped from using defence used by fellow activists
Six environmental protesters were convicted after they were denied the ability to put a “reasonable excuse” defence or climate facts before the jury, despite these being afforded to other activists acquitted for taking part in the same demonstration.
After an eight-day trial at Southwark crown court in London, the six Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists were found guilty of public nuisance, which carries a maximum 10-year sentence, for climbing gantries on the M25 in 2022 to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects. They will be sentenced next month.
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Exclusive: Experts say impact on people of colour and those who do not drive is ‘grave environmental injustice’
Air pollution in England and Wales has fallen, but the poorest neighbourhoods are still exposed to the most extreme levels of toxins, new analysis has found.
Experts have called this a “grave environmental injustice” as the inequality around who is exposed to air pollution has dramatically grown in the last decade.
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Eucalyptus production is dominated by large multinationals that convert farmland and forest into monoculture plantations
Razor-straight rows of eucalyptus clones flank the Baixa Verde settlement in north-eastern Brazil. The genetically identical trees are in marked contrast to the patches of wild Atlantic forest – one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth – that remain scattered across the region.
Surrounded by nearly 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of eucalyptus plantations, Baixa Verde is a rare example of a local victory over a multinational in Brazil. The rural settlement owes its existence to nearly two decades of legal battles over land rights – but the fight is not over yet.
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Experts find artefacts left behind in Caral showing how population survived drought without resorting to violence
Archaeologists in Peru have found new evidence showing how the oldest known civilization in the Americas adapted and survived a climate catastrophe without resorting to violence.
A team led by the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady, 78, concluded that about 4,200 years ago, severe drought forced the population to leave the ancient city of Caral, and resettle nearby.
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Though intensive farming has ravaged its habitat, could sensitive planting at energy sites aid the species’ revival?
November is when bumblebees disappear for the winter. One of the most common of the UK’s 24 species is the red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius). These social insects live in burrows, breed in colonies and forage all summer.
At this time of year, the workers and male bumblebees, having mated, die off and next year’s generation of queens burrow into holes in the bottom of hedges and old walls to hibernate until the warmth of spring.
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Rezultati novog istraživanja sugeriraju da bi često propisivani antibiotik mogao pomoći u smanjenju rizika od razvoja shizofrenije kod nekih mladih ljudi. Znanstvenici su otkrili da su pacijenti adolescentnih službi za mentalno zdravlje koji su liječeni antibiotikom doksiciklinom imali znatno manju vjerojatnost da će razviti shizofreniju u odrasloj dobi u usporedbi s pacijentima liječenima drugim antibioticima.
Metabolizam dušika crijevnih bakterija može pružiti zdravstvene koristi. Točnije, crijevni mikrobi metaboliziraju prehrambene nitrate i nitrite te sprječavaju stvaranje spojeva koji uzrokuju rak, a koji se nazivaju nitrozamini, pokazuje nova studija.
Izgleda da slobodni radikali stvoreni na određenom mjestu u ne-neuronalnim moždanim stanicama zvanim astrociti mogu potaknuti demenciju, pokazuje nova studija. Blokiranje ovog mjesta smanjuje upalu mozga i štiti neurone, što sugerira novi terapijski pristup neurodegenerativnim poremećajima, uključujući frontotemporalnu demenciju i Alzheimerovu bolest.
Iako periferni organi imaju relativno nisku ekspresiju GLP-1R, lijekovi koji sadrže GLP-1 imaju protuupalne učinke putem neizravnih i izravnih mehanizama koji uključuju neuronske, imunološke i vaskularne interakcije, pokazuje nova studija.
Novo istraživanje pospješilo je naše razumijevanje o tome kako šećeri, poznati kao glikani, pomažu imunološkim stanicama da se kreću u kožu kod upalne bolesti, psorijaze.
Potraga za prirodnim izvorima antioksidansa, protuupalnih, apoptoza-regulatornih spojeva i imunomodulatora privukla je pozornost posljednjih godina zbog njihovih potencijalnih terapijskih koristi kod raznih poremećaja, a orah je identificiran kao obećavajući kandida obzirom da brojne studije ukazuju na njegove povoljne učinke po ljudsko zdravlje.
Kombinirana analiza krvnih testova za mjerenje tri biomarkera povezanih s većim rizikom od kardiovaskularnih bolesti - lipoproteina a (Lp(a)), preostalog kolesterola i visokoosjetljivog C-reaktivnog proteina (hsCRP) - može pomoći u ranijem prepoznavanju osoba s visokim rizikom od srčanog udara, pokazuje nova studija.
Osobe s dijabetesom tipa 2 i povećanim rizikom od kardiovaskularnih bolesti koje su uzimale niske doze acetilsalicilatne kiseline imale su manju vjerojatnost da će doživjeti veći kardiovaskularni događaj, uključujući srčani udar, moždani udar ili smrt, od osoba s dijabetesom tipa 2 sa sličnim rizikom od kardiovaskularnih bolesti koje nisu uzimale niske doze acetilsalicilatne kiseline, pokazuje nova studija.
Dugotrajna upotreba dodataka melatonina (godinu dana ili više), često korištenih za poticanje sna i rješavanje nesanice (insomnije), povezana je s većim rizikom od dijagnoze zatajenja srca, hospitalizacije zbog zatajenja srca i smrti od bilo kojeg uzroka kod kronične nesanice, pokazuju rezultati nove studije.
Nova studija provedena u Italiji otkriva da dnevna mješavina ekstrakata citrusnog voća i grožđa s kromom može normalizirati šećer u krvi i poboljšati kolesterol brže od same prehrane, nudeći novu nadu milijunima ljudi koji žive s predijabetesom.
