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Exclusive: £75m publicity drive will ask people to treat water as precious resource and cut daily use by 28 litres
The biggest ever campaign to encourage the public to reduce their water use will launch this week, as the UK emerges from record temperatures attributed to the climate crisis.
The £75m publicity drive, called Let’s Save Water, will advise and encourage people to treat water as a precious resource and has a target for everyone to cut their daily use by 28 litres – or two large buckets – from the current average use of about 140 litres a day.
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In 1993, she squeezed a $333m settlement from a Californian energy company in a scandal over contaminated water. Three decades later, she has a new target in her sights – and it’s global
When Erin Brockovich woke to find 30 emails from people from the same town, she realised something was going on. People email Brockovich all the time because of what happened in 1993, when she was instrumental in suing Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on behalf of residents of the town of Hinkley, California, whose groundwater had been contaminated. The case resulted in a settlement of $333m – then the largest ever payout for a direct-action lawsuit. When she was immortalised by Julia Roberts in the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, she became the hero we didn’t know we needed, a modern day Joan of Arc. She had won against PG&E with no formal legal training.
The emails she received a few weeks ago were about datacentres. In April, she put a callout on her website asking for anyone with concerns about one near them to get in touch. Within a month, 3,862 people had replied. Tech companies have needed datacentres to power their technology “for ever”, she says, but the new ones being built to power AI? “This feels like Hinkley on steroids.”
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Heat records of over 40C set as extreme weather spreads east, with more than 191m in Europe enduring 35C or above
Germany, Czechia, Poland and Hungary reached record temperatures of more than 40C on Sunday as aheatwave linked to hundreds of deaths in western Europe spread east.
More than 191 million people in Europe faced temperatures of at least 35C, with extreme heat warnings across the region.
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Home-grown food may become a niche product for wealthy in our supermarkets as British farmers’ incomes plummet
For Liz Webster, who farms 647 hectares (1600 acres) in Wiltshire, south west England, the latest impact of Brexit has been particularly brutal. About £400 per animal has been wiped off the price she can get for her beef cattle, a hefty blow at a time when all the inputs – feed, energy, fertiliser – are going through the roof.
The fall in price, on livestock that typically fetch £2,000 to £3,000 per animal, is the result of a flood of cheaper meat arriving from Australia, the result of one of the new trade deals the government has signed since the UK left the European Union. Prices for beef in the supermarkets have remained broadly the same, but farmers have seen their income plummet.
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Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: With summer’s great silence coming, we must enjoy the birdsong while we can – as I have done with my local conifer crooner
I have two summer earworms right now. The first is O Sole Mio, the jingle of our local ice-cream van, the second is a particular phrase that our resident blackbird keeps singing. Four notes, moving down the scale but ending slightly on the minor: that’s his party piece, delivered after a jazzy performance that includes dozens of other motifs. He likes to bellow it from the tallest tip of the conifer tree that sways over the road, and I can’t stop whistling it.
He will have developed this refrain over years, and like all musicians, he will have started off shakily. If I didn’t notice it last season, it was probably because he was still a shy apprentice, his song unfinished as he practised quietly to work out his preferred combination of notes.
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The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?
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It was a rough five-day sail from the Falkland Islands and, as the science expedition approached the South Georgia coast, they found fur seal carcasses floating on the water. “There were these moments when it would hit us,” says Dr Jane Younger, remembering the expedition to the British subantarctic territory six months ago.
Younger, an ecologist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, was with scientists from the United States, France, South Africa and the Falklands to check on the spread of the H5N1 variant of bird flu.
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Accumulation on Switzerland’s glaciers from last winter expected to all be gone by Monday amid ‘enormous’ melt rates across Alps
Swiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heatwave battering Europe, according to the head of Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (Glamos).
The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland’s glaciers is expected to have all melted away by Monday, marking the alarming second-earliest arrival on record of the tipping point known as glacier loss day.
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The CLP’s ‘tough on crime’, pro-development agenda brings sweeping changes, which advocates say cut the NT’s most vulnerable out of the conversation
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The Northern Territory is out of sight – and often out of mind – for many Australians. But for 18 months, environment, First Nations, justice and family groups have been sounding the alarm with increasing urgency.
The populist “tough on crime” agenda which saw the Country Liberal party, led by Lia Finocchiaro, sweep to power in 2024 has been taking shape, and those representing the territory’s most vulnerable people, communities and ecosystems are worried.
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Scorching summer of 2003 triggered first efforts to deal with the problem but heatwaves still have devastating impact
On Wednesday, Pierre Masselot received a text from his daughter’s nursery – less than 50 miles from the weather station that was the first this week to break the UK June temperature record – asking parents to collect children early because the school buildings were about to get worryingly hot.
Similar scenes were repeated across Europe this week as the continent swelters through its most severe and widespread heatwave on record – an oppressive force made hotter by carbon pollution and less bearable by repeated failures to prepare for it. France experienced its hottest day and night on record, while the UK and Switzerland both broke their heat records for a June day.
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From cardboard coffins and natural burials to water-based cremation, Australians are increasingly open to alternative farewells – but the key is to plan
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It may seem small among the decisions people have to make as they face the end of their life, but what happens to their bodies can make a significant difference to the final cost inflicted on the environment.
In many Western countries, cremation is the most common method of deathcare – chosen by about three-quarters of Australians – but it’s arguably the most environmentally damaging.
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Velika meta-analiza otkriva da rak debelog crijeva ostavlja reproducibilan mikrobni otisak na stolici i tumorskom tkivu, što daje nade za buduća istraživanja probira, a istovremeno ukazuje na dijetalna vlakna kao mogući način modulacije crijevnih bakterija povezanih s rakom.
Američki znanstvenici razvili su novu strategiju koja pomaže imunološkom sustavu da učinkovitije prepozna i napadne rak pluća. Pakiranjem kemoterapijskog lijeka i molekule RNK u sićušni lipidni nosač, znanstvenici su potaknuli imunološki odgovor koji je usporio rast tumora i pojačao učinke imunoterapije.
Kronični psihološki stres može pomoći tumorima da izbjegnu imunološki napad putem lanca molekularnih događaja koji uključuju crijevne bakterije i viruse unutar tih bakterija, tvrdi nova studija.
Novo istraživanje osvjetljava zašto crveno meso može pogoršati upalnu bolest crijeva (IBD) - i kako drugi izvori proteina mogu pomoći u zaštiti crijeva. Naime, pokazalo se, da su miševi hranjeni prehranom na bazi govedine razvili najtežu crijevnu upalu, dok su oni koji su konzumirali proteine graška pokazali samo blage simptome.
Prema nedavno objavljenoj studiji, žene s dugoročnim unosom cjelovitih žitarica od najmanje 90 grama cjelovitih žitarica dnevno, imale su manji rizik od raka dojke od žena s puno nižim unosom cjelovitih žitarica. Rezultati također sugeriraju da se povezanost rizika razlikuje ovisno o vrsti konzumirane cjelovite žitarice.
Dvadesetogodišnje istraživanje provedeno na više od 3.000 odraslih Grka otkrilo je da ljudi čija je prehrana najviše nalikovala mediteranskom obrascu prehrane na biljnoj bazi imaju znatno niži rizik od kardiovaskularnih bolesti, čak 26 posto, dok su kalorijski bogate prehrane s niskim udjelom bijelog mesa povezane s lošijim dugoročnim ishodima za zdravlje srca.
Noć bez sna proizvela je povećane markere veza između moždanih stanica, što pokazuje da san kod ljudi može biti važan za vraćanje stanične ravnoteže u mozgu, tvrdi nova studija.
Dvije nedavno objavljene studije otkrivaju da određene vrste gljivica u crijevima igraju ključnu ulogu u razvoju imunološke disregulacije i nekih alergijskih bolesti kod djece te da mogu biti obećavajuće mete za nove terapije.
Nova studija otkriva kako statini mogu gurnuti ranjive mišićne stanice u stresno stanje, što sugerira buduće strategije za smanjenje mišićnih simptoma bez ugrožavanja kardiovaskularne zaštite. Naime, studija je otkrila biološke mehanizme koji potiču nuspojave povezane s mišićima nakon terapije statinima. Pokazalo se da statini smanjuju proizvodnju izoprenoida, prenilaciju proteina i signalizaciju proteina povezanog s yes (YAP).
Američki znanstvenici s University of Kansas ukazali su na vezu između izloženosti reproduktivnim hormonima tijekom života i zdravlja mozga kod žena u dobi od 65 do 80 godina. Otkrili su da starije žene koje su koristile hormonsku kontracepciju u mladoj odrasloj dobi imaju veću vjerojatnost da imaju veće volumene u regijama mozga vitalnim za pamćenje, spoznaju i obradu informacija.
