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Campaigners in Henley say insufficient number of bathers to qualify for status is result of poor water quality
Bathing water rules in England should be improved to help drive a clean-up of pollution at a spot on the River Thames in Henley, campaigners say.
In a letter to the environment secretary, Emma Reynolds, businesses, river users, community groups and civic leaders said poor water quality had been damaging the town and had put public health at risk.
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Fiona Harvey tells Nosheen Iqbal why the climate crisis is a threat to national security
“Last October, I and other journalists got quite excited because we thought that we were going to be attending a great event at the Natural History Museum,” the Guardian’s environment editor Fiona Harvey tells Nosheen Iqbal.
“We had been told that there was a major report being launched at this event. And this report was going to come not just from where you’d expect – from the government’s environment department – but also from the joint intelligence committee, and they are the UK’s spy chiefs, MI5, MI6, the intelligence agencies. And they were taking an interest in the climate and biodiversity and the threats that they pose to the UK’s national security.”
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About 500 farmers challenge Green Gen Cymru in high court over alleged disregard for landowners and biosecurity
A group of 500 Welsh farmers have brought a landmark legal claim to the high court over the alleged conduct of a green energy developer planning to build electricity pylon routes across their land.
The court will hear allegations that Green Gen Cymru “unlawfully sought entry to private land, intimidated landowners, and showed disregard for biosecurity and basic rights”, as well as examine laws that force landowners to sell property to utility companies, in a hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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While wildlife populations crash globally, research finds designated areas enable recovery of threatened species
Wildlife and humans are thriving within sites recognised by Unesco, research has found, allowing for the recovery of threatened species and habitats around the world.
While wildlife populations have crashed globally by nearly three-quarters since 1970, those within Unesco-protected areas have remained largely stable.
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St Mabyn, Cornwall: Many apiarists opened their hives this spring to find hardly any sign of life. In Richard’s case, he found nothing at all
Richard Bray’s hives stand in a crooked line at the edge of the apple orchard, beside a low thicket of nettles. Richard was “brought up with” beekeeping here at Haywood farm, and at the peak of his apiary business had 250 hives; today he has seven. This spring, for the first time in 75 years, none of his bees survived the winter.
Richard lifts the lid of the first hive, releasing a sour smell of old wax and honey. “There’s nothing,” he says, “that’s very worrying. You’d expect to [at least] see dead bees in there. But there isn’t a bee anywhere.” An inspector from the National Bee Unit advised that the loss was caused by the varroa mite, a notorious destroyer of bee colonies. “I’ve never had anything like this,” Richard tells me. “Varroa mite? I don’t know.”
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Exclusive: Report finds Natural England has created no new SSSIs, which protect areas from development, since 2023
The government’s wildlife watchdog for England is failing to save nature because it has stopped giving protection to rare wildlife and habitats, according to a new report.
No new sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) have been designated by Natural England since 2023. SSSIs are nationally or internationally important places for rare wildlife and habitats. Without the designation, endangered species can be at risk of being lost to development.
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One way to pay for wildlife conservation is to allow the rich to bag a few animals for high prices. But critics see this approach as an exercise in neocolonialism
You can kill almost anything if you’re willing to pay. Big or small. Land, water or air. Ten a penny or one of the last of its kind. There’s nearly always a way, though it might not make you popular. The Niassa special reserve, a vast reservation larger than Switzerland, stretches for 190 miles along the northern rim of Mozambique, taking in 4.2m hectares of woodland and rivers. The reserve, one of the world’s largest protected areas, is home to elephants, leopards, hyenas, zebras and about 1,000 wild lions.
That word, however: protected. It applies to some, but not all, of its animal inhabitants. Each year, a specific number are set aside for sacrifice, for the greater good. Not long ago,I joined an expedition in Niassa, with one of Africa’s top game-hunting companies.
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Analysis of video footage reveals how wave changed as it travelled over mud-rich rice paddies, exerting more force
It is just over 15 years since the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, killing almost 20,000 people and triggering the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Fresh analysis of video footage of the wave has revealed that the mud-rich coastline made the tsunami far more destructive than it might otherwise have been.
Patrick Sharrocks, from the University of Leeds, and colleagues studied helicopter video footage, along with before and after images from Google Earth, to estimate the speed, shape and power of the tsunami flow front. They found that as the wave travelled over mud-rich rice paddies it changed from a fast-moving, clear-water flow into a thick, gloopy, mud-laden one.
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The country is seeing an increase in human-wildlife conflict as the number of megafauna, including rhinos and tigers, grows. But there are efforts to tackle the problem around Chitwan national park through education and training
The tourists lining the steep embankment buzzed with excitement, phones out, snapping away in the twilight as a wild Indian rhinoceros grazed below the Nepali village of Sauraha. Climbing to the main street, the rhino ambled down the middle of the road.
Local people warned tourists to give it plenty of space. All manner of wheeled vehicles slowed, then passed. The rhino turned its horn at a cyclist passing too close, triggering gasps from the assembled crowd.
A manager uses torchlight to guide a wild Indian rhinoceros through the grounds of his hotel in Sauraha
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Kerbside wheelie bins have been used in Australia since the 1980s but the recycling rate is stuck at 44%. Will another recycling bin make a difference?
There’s no garbage truck in Kamikatsu.
Instead, the Japanese town’s 1,400 residents take their waste to the local recycling centre, or “Gomi station”, and sort it themselves into more than 40 different categories.
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Pacijenti sa specifičnom vrstom raka debelog crijeva koji su liječeni kratkim ciklusom imunoterapije prije operacije umjesto postoperativne kemoterapije ostali su bez raka nakon gotovo tri godine praćenja, pokazuju rezultati kliničkog ispitivanja NEOPRISM-CRC.
Znanstvenici su već dokazali da blaga do umjerena tjelovježba može smanjiti "kemo mozak", a nova studija sugerira da niska doza protuupalnog lijeka ibuprofena, također može postići pozitivne rezultate za pacijente oboljele od raka koji se podvrgavaju kemoterapiji.
Jednokratna infuzija ciltacabtagene autoleucela (Carvykti) dovela je do 100%-tne stope negativnosti minimalne rezidualne bolesti (MRD) kod pacijenata s visokorizičnim tinjajućim multiplim mijelomom, pokazuju rezultati nove studije.
Isti neurotransmiter koji se obično koristi za ublažavanje simptoma depresije i anksioznosti također može pogoršati neugodno stanje poznato kao tinitus, tvrdi nova studija. Tinitus je stalan osjećaj zvonjave ili zujanja u ušima, što kod nekih stvara kontinuiranu iritaciju, a kod drugih tešku anksioznost. Globalna prevalencija procjenjuje se na čak 14%, s mnogima koji su teško pogođeni.
Nova studija utvrdila je značajnu povezanost između prenatalnog propisivanja često korištenih lijekova i rizika od poremećaja iz autističnog spektra (ASD) kod djece.
Prema rezultatima nove studije, čini se da veći unos natrija utječe na epizodno pamćenje, vrstu pamćenja koja se koristi za prisjećanje osobnih iskustava i specifičnih događaja iz prošlosti. Valja istaknuti, da ovaj učinak – koji bi mogao uzrokovati da netko zaboravi bilo što, od mjesta gdje je parkirao automobil do prvog dana škole – pojavio se uglavnom među muškarcima.
Infekcije uzrokovane bakterijama otpornim na antibiotike teško je liječiti i odgovorne su za preko 2,8 milijuna infekcija i više od 35.000 smrtnih slučajeva u SAD-u svake godine. Nova studija izvještava da bi lijek koji se koristi za snižavanje povišenog krvnog tlaka mogao biti i osnova obećavajućeg novog liječenja meticilin-rezistentnog Staphylococcus aureusa (MRSA).
Nedavna objavljena studija procijenila je učinke dnevne konzumacije naranči (400 g dnevno) tijekom 4 tjedna na profile serumskih lipida kod pacijenata s MASLD-om. MASLD, ranije poznat kao nealkoholna masna bolest jetre (NAFLD), stanje je usko povezano s metaboličkim sindromom, visceralnom pretilošću i dijabetesom tipa 2. Svrstava se među vodeće uzroke morbiditeta i transplantacija povezanih s jetrom diljem svijeta, a promjena načina života i intervencija u prehrani ostaju najučinkovitije terapijske strategije.
Rizik od raka povećava se s godinama i često je agresivniji i teži za liječiti kod starijih osoba. Novo istraživanje znanstvenika s Fox Chase Cancer Center, sugerira da se melanom ponaša drugačije s godinama. Podaci su pokazali da je širenje raka bilo najniže kod mladih miševa, vrhunac kod miševa srednje dobi, a opalo kod vrlo starih miševa.
Novo istraživanje otkriva kako kratka seansa finske saune mobilizira imunološki sustav u roku od nekoliko minuta, nudeći nova saznanja o tome kako izloženost toplini može utjecati na ljudsko zdravlje.
