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Exclusive: Experts urge water companies to update plants to avoid another catastrophe, as analysis reveals scale of use
At least 15 sewage plants on England’s south coast use the same contaminated plastic beads that were spilled in an environmental disaster in Camber Sands, Guardian analysis can reveal.
Environmental experts have urged water companies to update these old treatment plants to avoid another catastrophic spill, which can lead to plastic beads being permanently embedded in the environment and killing marine wildlife.
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So-called “mutirão decision” text provides first look at potential outcomes of UN climate summit – but don’t call it a cover text, say Brazilians
If the world cannot solve the climate crisis within a capitalist system, “we should all go to bed and not wake up,” the influential economist Mariana Mazzucato has warned.
A small but growing number of economists have suggested that capitalism is part of the problem, and that a healthy planet is not possible within such a system. But Mazzucato, professor of economics at University College London and one of the most respected thinkers working on public governance globally, disagrees.
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It started with a migraine but ended in hospital. When Gowend had dengue the first time she had no idea she was pregnant. This is Gowend’s story
Location Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Disaster Ill with dengue
Gowend (not her real name) lives in Burkina Faso. In 2023, in the early stages of pregnancy, she was admitted to hospital and diagnosed as having had dengue fever, a viral illness transmitted by mosquitoes which is, in a small number of cases, potentially fatal. It has been linked with miscarriage by some studies. Dengue is on the rise in Africa and Asia, partly thanks to the warming climate, andis increasingly being detected in Europe, too.
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It is one of the world’s most vital carbon sinks, but this tropical rainforest is losing out when it comes to climate policy and funding
In October 2023, leaders, scientists and policymakers from three of the world’s great rainforest regions – the Amazon, the Congo, and the Borneo-Mekong basins – assembled in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo. They were there to discuss one urgent question: how to save the planet’s last great tropical forests from accelerating destruction.
For those present, the question was existential. But to their dismay, almost no one noticed. “There was very little acknowledgment that this was happening, outside of the Congo basin region,” says Prof Simon Lewis, a lecturer at the University of Leeds and University College London, and co-chair of the Congo Basin Science Initiative (CBSI).
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Two-year study finds area of woodland in Devon to be ideal habitat to support a controlled release of the creatures
The prospect of European wildcats prowling in south-west England has taken a leap forward after a two-year study concluded a reintroduction was feasible – and most local people were positive about the idea.
Having been absent for more than a century, mid-Devon has been judged to have the right kind of habitat to support a population of Felis silvestris.
The south-west contains enough woodland cover connected by other suitable habitat to support a sustainable wildcat population.
Two surveys were conducted by researchers at the University of Exeter. In one, 71% of 1,000 people liked the idea of wildcat return. In the other, 83% of 1,425 who responded expressed positivity.
Wildcats pose no significant risk to existing endangered wildlife populations such as bats and dormice. Wildcat diets concentrate on widespread commonly found species, with 75% of their prey consisting of small mammals including voles, rats, wood mice and rabbits.
Wildcats pose no threat to people, domestic pets or farming livestock such as lambs. Commercial and domestic poultry can be protected from wildcats with the same precautions deployed for existing predators such as foxes.
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Hogshaw, Derbyshire: To hear one in December isn’t totally unheard of – any excuse to revel in that uplifting, deceptively simple sound
It was unmistakable: at dawn, through the bedroom window, a voice of declarative power and pure tones with a volume to rattle the glass. Did-uu … did-uu … did-uu, chwit, chwit chwit. It was a song thrush, and one of those rare occasions when I’ve heard one singing this side of Christmas. I’m tempted to add the “wrong” side, but we’ll come to that.
The customary seasonal order for our three breeding thrushes starting to sing is mistle, then song, with blackbird a month later. However, if we are ranking them in terms of vocal merit then that sequence is usually reversed. It must be added instantly, however, that if the vote were purely on mass approval then the song thrush would come first.
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Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
Insect-eating bird populations in France appear to be making a tentative recovery after a ban on bee-harming pesticides, according to the first study to examine how wildlife is returning in Europe.
Neonicotinoids are the world’s most common class of insecticides, widely used in agriculture and for flea control in pets. By 2022, four years after the European Union banned neonicotinoid use in fields, researchers observed that France’s population of insect-eating birds had increased by 2%-3%. These included blackbirds, blackcaps and chaffinches, which feed on insects as adults and as chicks.
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Ending use of coal, oil and gas is essential in tackling climate crisis – but even talking about it is controversial
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Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions
“It broke my heart.” Surangel Whipps, president of the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, was sitting in the front row of the UN’s general assembly in New York when Donald Trump made a long and rambling speech, his first to the UN since his re-election, on 23 September.
Whipps was prepared for fury and bombast from the US president, but what followed was shocking. Trump’s rant on the climate crisis – a “green scam”, “the greatest con job ever perpetrated”, “predictions made by stupid people” – was an unprecedented attack on science and global action from a major world leader.
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Brazil’s president welcomes world leaders while navigating divided government, promising action on deforestation and emissions
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has welcomed world leaders to Belém for the first climate summit in the Amazon, where conservationists hope he can be a champion for the rainforest and its people.
But with a divided administration, a hostile Congress and 20th-century developmentalist instincts, this global figurehead of the centre left has a balancing act to perform in advocating protection of nature and a reduction of emissions.
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Sunčeva svjetlost je vitalna za ljudsko zdravlje jer pomaže tijelu u proizvodnji esencijalnih hranjivih tvari, poput vitamina D. Međutim, previše izlaganja suncu može značajno povećati rizik od raka kože. U novoj studiji provedenoj u SAD-u otkriveno je kako dugotrajno izlaganje ultraljubičastom (UV) zračenju može izazvati upalu u stanicama kože putem razgradnje ključnog proteina zvanog YTHDF2 koji sprječava da normalne stanice kože postanu kancerogene.
Nova studija otkrila je da je veći unos crvenog mesa povezan s umjereno višim razinama C-reaktivnog proteina (CRP) u krvi. Međutim, takva povezanost nije uočena za druge upalne biomarkere.
Prema rezultatima novog istraživanja, izgleda da postporođajna depresija kod bilo kojeg roditelja, posebno kod oba, može signalizirati znatno veću vjerojatnost autizma kod njihovog djeteta, što naglašava važnost rane podrške mentalnom zdravlju za obitelj.
Novi pregled dokaza otkriva kako svakodnevna konzumacija gljiva može potaknuti kardiometaboličke markere u pravom smjeru, pa čak i pripremiti prvu liniju imunološke obrane, nudeći jednostavnu strategiju cjelovitih namirnica za zdravije obroke.
Svake godine tisuće preživjelih moždanog udara ostanu s hemianopsijom, stanjem koje uzrokuje gubitak polovice vidnog polja. Hemianopija ozbiljno utječe na svakodnevne aktivnosti poput čitanja, vožnje ili samo hodanja kroz prepun prostor.
Kronična bol kod odraslih može povećati rizik od visokog krvnog tlaka (hipertenzije), a lokacija i opseg boli te jesu li imali i depresiju bili su faktori koji su tome doprinijeli, tvrdi nova studija.
Nova studija pomaže objasniti zašto neki ljudi s multiplim mijelomom, vrstom raka krvi, ostaju u remisiji dugi niz godina nakon primanja CAR T stanične terapije, dok se kod drugih rak brže vraća.
Gotovo svaka treća osoba diljem svijeta pati od glavobolje, što pogađa gotovo 3 milijarde ljudi, pokazuju podaci iz nove studije. Glavobolje, posebno migrena, i dalje su glavni globalni zdravstveni izazov, što naglašava potrebu za učinkovitim strategijama liječenja i prevencije.
Američki znanstvenici otkrili su da je blaga dilatacija ili povećanje pankreasnog kanala faktor rizika za adenokarcinom pankreasnog kanala koji treba pratiti kod osoba s visokim rizikom. Inače, predviđa se da će adenokarcinom pankreasnog kanala postati drugi vodeći uzrok smrti od raka u SAD-u do 2030. godine.
Hipertenzija oštećuje krvne žile, neurone i bijelu tvar u mozgu mnogo prije nego što stanje uzrokuje mjerljiv porast krvnog tlaka, tvrdi nova studija. Promjene pomažu objasniti zašto je hipertenzija glavni faktor rizika za razvoj kognitivnih poremećaja, poput vaskularnog kognitivnog oštećenja i Alzheimerove bolesti.
