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In response to a request from Hvar's registered charity Dignitea, the EC has sent a full explanation of the regulations which should be applied to the proposed oil and gas drilling in the Adriatic.
Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential
In the timeless week between Christmas and the new year, two Spanish men in their early 50s – friends since childhood, popular around town – went to a restaurant and did not come home.
Francisco Zea Bravo, a maths teacher active in a book club and rock band, and Antonio Morales Serrano, the owner of a popular cafe and ice-cream parlour, had gone to eat with friends in Málaga on Saturday 27 December. But as the pair drove back to Alhaurín el Grande that night, heavy rains turned the usually tranquil Fahala River into what the mayor would later call an “uncontrollable torrent”. Police found their van overturned the next day. Their bodies followed after an agonising search.
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Rising temperatures are forcing some ski resorts to close, while leaving others at greater risk of extreme weather
Avalanches kill about 100 people in Europe each year, with vast masses of ice, snow and rock regularly crashing down on hikers and skiers who have been caught unawares.
The structure of the snow, angle of the slope and variation of the weather can dictate whether a gentle disturbance – like a gust of wind or the glide of a snowboard – can trigger a deadly shift in the mountain.
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Australian collections of the endangered and notoriously unpredictable flowers have popped off in recent years, as ‘personas’ like Putricia, Stinkerella and Smellanie prove a hit with nosy spectators
From little things glorious fetid things grow. Corpse flower blooms, once vanishingly rare, are becoming more commonplace in Australia.
More than a dozen bloomed across the country in 2025, including the infamous Putricia in Sydney, Morpheus in Canberra, Big Betty in Cooktown, and Spud and co in Cairns. But with plants kept in gardens across the country, and blooming more frequently after their first flower, you could catch a whiff of one soon.
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Animal rights activists disagree with authorities on how best to handle boom in primate population near Table Mountain
At the edge of Da Gama Park, where the Cape Town suburb meets the mountain, baboons jumped from the road to garden walls to roofs and back again. Children from South African navy families living in the area’s modest houses played in the street. Some were delighted; some wary; most were unfazed by the animals.
A few miles away, overlooking a soaring peak and sweeping bay, Nicola de Chaud showed photos of food strewn across her kitchen by a baboon. In another incident, a baboon threw one of her dogs across the veranda. In January, a male baboon lunged at her and refused to leave the house for 10 minutes.
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Subspecies driven to extinction by hungry whalers returns after ‘back breeding’ programme using partial descendants
Giant tortoises, the life-giving engineers of remote small island ecosystems, are plodding over the Galápagos island of Floreana for the first time in more than 180 years.
The Floreana giant tortoise (Chelonoidis niger niger), a subspecies of the giant tortoise once found across the Galápagos, was driven to extinction in the 1840s by whalers who removed thousands from the volcanic island to provide a living larder during their hunting voyages.
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Romney Marsh, Kent: It’s a family outing, raking the wet sand looking for plump shellfish. Out of everyone, though, I’m the most enthusiastic
The vast tidal flats are empty save for the hunched figures of three black-backed gulls considering a decomposed dogfish, and four humans (one rather small) trudging through the endless silt. A light mist obscures the coast with its string of motley houses and, on the breeze, there is only the distant soughing of shallow waves chasing foam over the sand. There is the piquancy of seclusion and its attendant danger here, perhaps the closest thing Kent has to wilderness.
I’m relishing the long walk in this lonely place, but my children are less enthusiastic about our annual pilgrimage to the cockle beds, a typically cold affair as the quality of shellfish diminishes in spring and summer. We’re travelling well armed, brandishing handmade rakes with formidable tines of six-inch nails, while the youngest carries a hopeful white bucket. About half a mile offshore, our labour begins.
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Government announces tougher measures to tackle unlicensed sites as ‘prolific waste criminal’ is ordered to pay £1.4m
A new 33-strong drone unit is being deployed to investigate the scourge of illegal waste dumping across England, the government has announced.
The improvements to the investigation of illegal waste dumping – which costs the UK economy £1bn a year – come as the ringleader of a major waste crime gang was ordered to pay £1.4m after being convicted at Birmingham crown court.
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In an edited extract from her latest book, Hazel Sheffield sets out a new blueprint for community stewardship
It was a Saturday in February 2020 when the flood came. It had been a wet winter, so wet it seemed that before the month was out, the brown trout of the River Taff might be washed clean out into Cardiff Bay before the fishing season had even begun. But this is Wales. People are used to a spot of rain. No one realised how bad it would get.
For two days, it hammered on the windows of the houses at the top of the South Wales Valleys, where people tucked in their children before a sleepless night. It poured into the rivers at the bottom. By the time the rain departed again, many people would be standing in water up to their knees.
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Rivers drained dry to create artificial snow, a forest cut down for the bobsleigh track – IOC’s claims to prioritise sustainability at Milano Cortina exposed
On the foothills of the mountains, by the banks of the river in Cortina, there was a forest. It was full of tall larch trees. Arborists said the oldest of them had been there for 150 years and dendrologists that it was unique because it was unusual to find a monocultural forest growing at such a low altitude in the southern Alps.
The locals knew mostly it was the place where the old wooden bobsleigh run was, where you went on your walks in summer or autumn, or when you wanted to play tennis on the small courts built near the bottom. They called it the Bosco di Ronco and it isn’t there any more.
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A staple in African and Arab communities for millennia, camel milk is now being marketed as a ‘superfood’
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Caroline’s sultry and soulful eyes are hooded and heavy-lashed.
“She’s straight out of central,” Paul Martin whispers, gazing at his star performer with admiration.
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Dovoljno sna može biti važnije za zdravlje srca nego što mnogi ljudi misle. Nova multicentrična studija otkrila je da je nedovoljno spavanje povezano s većim rizikom od fibrilacije atrija (AF) među odraslima radne dobi.
Novi dokazi upućuju na to da mikrobni metaboliti ne samo da reguliraju endogenu sekreciju GLP-1, već mogu utjecati i na terapijski odgovor na agoniste GLP-1 receptora, što otvara mogućnost strategija liječenja vođenih mikrobiomom kod pretilosti i dijabetesa tipa 2.
Nedavna studija istražila je dijagnostičku vrijednost upalnih biomarkera u plazmi za Alzheimerovu bolest i ispitala odnose između ključnih biomarkera, kognitivnih performansi i APOE genotipova.
Japanski znanstvenici uspjeli su otkrti dvije crijevne bakterije koje zajedno doprinose kroničnom zatvoru (konstipacija). Naime, dvojac, Akkermansia muciniphila i Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, uništava omotač crijevne sluzi neophodan za održavanje podmazanosti debelog crijeva i hidratacije stolice. Njihova prekomjerna razgradnja ostavlja pacijente sa suhom, nepokretnom stolicom.
Nova studija otkriva da se prediktivna moć ključnih upalnih markera, poput C-reaktivnog proteina (CRP), temeljno mijenja ovisno o tome pati li pacijent od ciroze jetre ili akutne/kronične koronarne bolesti.
Jednostavna kombinacija svakodnevne tjelesne aktivnosti i nutritivnih napitaka bogatih proteinima čini se da nudi značajne zdravstvene prednosti za osobe s demencijom, pokazuje nova švedska studija.
Dijabetes i bolest bubrega glavni su čimbenici rizika za bolesti srca, no mnogi slučajevi ostaju nedijagnosticirani. Osim toga, nova analiza sugerira da većina ljudi ne shvaća da su zdravlje njihovog srca, bubrega i metabolizma (kako tijelo stvara, koristi i pohranjuje energiju) povezani.
Godinama se rastuće stope kratkovidnosti ili miopije uvelike pripisuju povećanom vremenu provedenom pred ekranom, posebno među djecom i mladim odraslima. No, novo istraživanje sugerira da bi priča mogla biti složenija, naime, kratkovidnost bi mogla biti manje uzrokovana samim ekranima, a više uobičajenom vizualnom navikom u zatvorenom prostoru: produljenim fokusom na krupni plan u okruženjima sa slabim osvjetljenjem, što ograničava količinu svjetlosti koja dopire do mrežnice.
Imunoterapija – koja aktivira vlastiti imunološki sustav tijela za ubijanje stanica raka – nije dobro djelovala protiv rijetkog i smrtonosnog raka jetre, no nova studija Cornell University otkriva da postojeći lijek odobren od strane Američke agencije za hranu i lijekove (FDA) može omogućiti imunoterapiji da se bori protiv raka kako je predviđeno, otvarajući vrata potencijalnom liječenju.
Pušenje majki tijekom trudnoće može biti povezano s višim krvnim tlakom i povećanim rizikom od hipertenzije kod djece, pokazuju rezultati nove studije. Krvni tlak koji je viši od normalnog u djetinjstvu, uključujući dijagnosticirani visoki krvni tlak, može povećati rizik od razvoja visokog krvnog tlaka kasnije u životu, što je glavni faktor rizika za srčane bolesti. Prethodne studije koje su ispitivale prenatalnu izloženost pušenju i krvni tlak u djetinjstvu dale su mješovite rezultate.
