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Draft Motion for a Resolution prepared for the EU Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, March 2016
Draft Motion prepared by Rapporteurs Pavel Poc (Socialists and Democrats Group), Kateřina Konečná on behalf of the European United Left and Nordic Green Left group, Bas Eickhout of the Greens / European Free Alliance Group, Piernicola Pedicini of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group, Mark Demesmaeker, Sirpa Pietikäinen and Frédérique Ries. This draft Motion was carried forward for the vote in a Parliamentary Plenary Session in April 2016.
Na našoj internetskoj stranici objavljujemo tekstove i informacije na temu zdravlja, okoliša i zaštite životinja. Premda u prvom redu govorimo o otoku Hvaru u Dalmaciji, većina informacija vrijedi za cijelu Hrvatsku, a neke od njih odnose se na Europu, Sjedinjene američke države i ostale dijelove svijeta.
Većina tekstova je pisana na engleskom jeziku, ali s vremenom ćemo dodati i tekstove na hrvatskom jeziku.
članci o zdravlju Opasni otrovi! Glyphosate: EU draft Motion, March 2016
As Cop17 kicks off, records since 1921 show more bee species declining than increasing in all parts of Europe except the Alps
Most of Europe’s wild bee species and about half of its hover fly species have declined over the last century, a study has found, as a UN biodiversity summit begins in Armenia.
Records since 1921 show more bee species are declining than increasing in all parts of Europe except the Alpine region. The richness of bee and hover fly species suffered a persistent drop in the Atlantic and Continental regions, the study found, though trends in other regions were mixed or even positive.
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Amateur wildlife photographer Rhys Morgan has caught extraordinary footage of one of the largest whale species on Earth.
While sailing off the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, Morgan and his friends spotted the blowholes of a fin whale in the distance, recognisable by the hooked fin near its tail, a dark grey upper body, white belly, and an asymmetrical jaw that is dark on the left and white on the right.
People who have enjoyed the video online are trying to raise awareness of fin whales being hunted in Iceland and calling on government ministers to take action
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Researchers say almost 90% of participants in unconditional basic income scheme in Peru adopted environmentally beneficial practices
A pioneering project to provide Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon with an unconditional basic income has contributed to the protection of the rainforest, according to a study.
The analysis from the University of Bath is expected to contribute to a growing debate about the role of direct payments to communities that maintain globally important ecosystems.
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Saudi Arabia, Russia and China among those claiming developed countries have skewed findings of IPCC review
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suspended an important meeting on Friday in Addis Ababa without setting out a firm timetable for its next report. The world’s governments are due to meet in less than a month for the Cop31 climate summit, and this leaves the future of scientific advice to governments on the climate in doubt.
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Elk, bear, frogs and other animals have used the overpass, which connects 39,000 acres of habitat, since its completion
Colorado officials have tracked herds of elk, bears, pronghorn and even northern leopard frogs ambling across its new wildlife overpass. According to a newly released report, the overpass, which acts as a bridge over a busy stretch of interstate, has helped cut wildlife-vehicle collisions by 91% since its completion 10 months ago.
The overpass is the centerpiece of a larger system built by the state to assist wildlife crossing the highway, which also includes miles of 8-ft-tall fencing and five large wildlife underpasses.
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Failed rains and a dire El Niño threaten the waterway that sustains the country, with farmers selling cattle to survive
The cattle should be ambling, grazing contentedly, through Robert Delgado’s fields. Instead, the animals slump in the shade, tongues lolling, in futile attempts to avoid the blistering heat. Soon it will matter little whether their appetite returns, for there will be no grass left to graze.
In Azuero, an agricultural region in Panama’s Arco Seco (Dry Arc), the summer is generally relentless and unforgiving. But this year, the crucial rainy season that precedes it – typically from May to December – has brought little rain to parched fields. The watering holes, streams and rivers that farmers rely on have not been replenished, and pastures – the vital source of animal feed during the dry months – have not regenerated themselves.
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Ouse Fen, Cambridgeshire: The great egret’s story is remarkable, as is the conversion of this low-grade agricultural land into one of the richest wetlands in Britain
In keeping with this region’s summer of torrid heat and drought, the field by the path was an expanse of burnt, dead thistles. What was totally unexpected were the 13 great egrets among it. Ironically, the birds may well be here as a consequence of the climate crisis, but their appearance in a parched brown expanse felt strange.
First, they are creatures of freshwater marsh and routinely hunt fish. Second, great egrets are the size of grey herons, but pure white, aside from lemon eyes and dagger-like beaks of pale autumnal orange. What was weirdest of all was the gestalt whole; the way they threaded through that horizon of brown, long necks extending and retracting like winding snakes, and all this gleaming intensity focused on catching voles. Then a bird would fly, the white rope of its neck rising, followed by a ragged cloak of wings, turning eventually to the stolid beat of heavy flight.
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These yachts are highly popular with the ‘super-bourgeoisie’ – and getting bigger. Can anything be done to stop them destroying our seas?
Who knew? Apparently everyone did, apart from me: you don’t wear shoes on a superyacht. Now, about to step on to my first teak deck at the Monaco Yacht Show, I’ve got to take my trainers off, and I’m having a sock panic. Have they got holes? Do they even match? Do they smell?
To be honest, I’ve come dressed all wrong for Europe’s big annual superyacht trade exhibition. The code for men seems to be crisp and tucked in, blazers and chinos, navy and white, sculpted hair and designer sunnies. (I went colourful, loose, casual). For women, it’s something like Riviera elegance. Everyone – whether they’re Italian, French, English, German, American, exhibitors, buyers, brokers, charterers – seems to know each other. The international superyacht community seems to be a close-knit one, and I’m not part of it. Yet.
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Every sun-dappled object is an instrument as composer Dom Coyote and sound designers Elena Peña and Dave Price conjure trip-hop-inspired rhythms in the Mendips for a new stage adaptation
The woodland is stuck to our skin. Sound designers Elena Peña and Dave Price are hunched next to me, burying a microphone into mossy ground. Composer Dom Coyote is listening on headphones, crunching out a rhythm with his boot before shucking his shoes for a subtler sound. “It’s got to be socks off, Dom,” says Price. Coyote obliges, the balls of his feet soon covered in dead conifer needles. “Do you wish you’d had a pedicure now?” Peña asks.
It’s a short drive from Bristol to this patch on the Mendip Hills, where pine cones and rowan berries scatter at the entrance to the trees. We’re on the hunt for sounds to orchestrate a staging of Max Porter’s novel Lanny. The adaptation by Somerset-based Bea Roberts moves the spectral story of a lost boy and a mulch-guzzling creature from commuting-distance-to-London to commuting-distance-to-Bristol, with director Nancy Medina wanting the show’s sound to exist within the city’s historical music scene. “A kind of trip-hop world,” says Coyote, who is exploring this idea by replacing electronic beats with those of the natural world. “So we need to go and play the forest.” Every sun-dappled object becomes an instrument. Up on his feet, Price tests out a rhythm on a deep-timbred trunk. He points to the tree. “Any notes for the snare drum department?”
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So far not a single target of the plan has been met. As negotiators convene for Cop17, the pressure is on to find a way to honour the commitments made at previous summits
Passersby could smell the dead fish before they saw them. In August, more than 3,000 pike, roach, carp and rudd were found lifeless along the River Wensum in Norwich. Some gasped for air in their final moments, desperate for the oxygen that heatwave conditions had depleted in the water. Investigators believe that the die-off was triggered by heavy rainfall that flushed through high concentrations of pollution at a time when wildlife were already struggling.
The 45-mile (70km) chalk river is one of about 250 in the country. They are a geological accident almost unique to Britain – and one of Earth’s rarest habitats. They emerge from chalk aquifers and are home to species such as freshwater shrimp, otters and stoneflies, also providing drinking water for millions of people. But just 11 have formal protection, with many ravaged by sewage pollution and overextraction. The Norfolk river is one of the few that does have legal protection, but it is in poor ecological health.
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Redovita tjelesna aktivnost rezultira brojnim zdravstvenim prednostima. Pokazalo se da poboljšava san, snižava krvni tlak i smanjuje anksioznost, a istovremeno gradi mišiće, jača kosti i pomaže u kontroli težine. Nova studija sugerira da također može smanjiti niz neugodnih simptoma tijekom perimenopauze.
Prijevremena menopauza povezana je s povećanim rizikom od nekoliko dugoročnih zdravstvenih problema uslijed nedostatka estrogena. Kardiovaskularne bolesti jedan su od tih zdravstvenih rizika. Međutim, temeljni kardiometabolički uzroci nisu jasni. Novo istraživanje ukazuje na moguću povezanost s razinama inzulina.
Valovi vrućine najčešći su simptom perimenopauze i menopauze, a pogađaju 75 do 85% žena. Posljednjih godina zabilježen je porast broja nehormonskih opcija za ublažavanje valova vrućine. Novo istraživanje sugerira da bi transdermalni nitroglicerin mogao biti jedna od mogućnosti.
Žene u postmenopauzi izložene su većem riziku od raznih zdravstvenih problema, poput prijeloma kuka i infekcija mokraćnog sustava, uslijed gubitka estrogena. Vaginalni estrogen koristi se za sprječavanje ponavljajućih infekcija mokraćnog sustava, no novo istraživanje sugerira da bi njegova primjena mogla biti povezana s perioperativnim komplikacijama pri prijelomu kuka, uključujući upravo infekcije mokraćnog sustava.
Protein nazvan Miro1, čije su povišene razine pronađene u skeletnim mišićima osoba s dijabetesom tipa 2, mogao bi doprinijeti inzulinskoj rezistenciji, što ga čini potencijalnom metom za buduće terapije koje bi pomogle tijelu u regulaciji razine šećera u krvi, navodi se u novoj studiji.
Dugo nakon završetka njihove reproduktivne uloge, jajnici nastavljaju prolaziti kroz molekularne promjene povezane s upalom, preoblikovanjem tkiva i staničnom signalizacijom, što otvara nova pitanja o njihovom potencijalnom utjecaju na zdravlje žena tijekom starenja.
Međunarodni tim znanstvenika otkrio je da bi lijek koji utječe na laktaciju, kabergolin, mogao smanjiti rizik od raka dojke kod majki nakon poroda. Kabergolin, lijek koji se koristi za zaustavljanje proizvodnje mlijeka nakon gubitka trudnoće ili u slučajevima kada dojenje nije moguće, pacijentice općenito dobro podnose, uz pojavu tek rijetkih nuspojava. No, on bi mogao pružiti i neočekivane koristi.
Tjelovježba bi trebala biti propisana kao temeljna komponenta prevencije i liječenja kardiovaskularnih bolesti (KVB), prema novoj znanstvenoj izjavi American College of Cardiology. Izjava naglašava da se najveće smanjenje kardiovaskularnog rizika događa kada osobe koje ne obavljaju dovoljno aktivan način života postanu još umjerenije aktivnije, a najbolji recept za tjelovježbu je onaj koji je siguran, individualiziran, ostvariv i održiv tijekom vremena.
Zatajenje srca mijenja koštanu srž, smanjujući zaštitne stanice koje reguliraju upalu, izvještava nova japanska studija. Prema studiji, srčani stres smanjuje populaciju mezenhimalnih stromalnih stanica koje proizvode faktor rasta sličan EGF-u koji veže heparin. Rezultirajuće smanjenje zaštitne signalizacije mijenja matične stanice koje stvaraju krv i potiče upalne makrofage.
Prvih 90 dana nakon početka antipsihotičkog liječenja ključno je za promjene šećera u krvi i težine, otkriva nova studija. Antipsihotici druge generacije važni su tretmani za teške mentalne bolesti, uključujući shizofreniju i bipolarni poremećaj. Međutim, mogu povećati rizik od dijabetesa i debljanja.
Deep in the mountains of Palawan, Conservation International scientists are capturing what few people ever see: the secret lives of the Philippines’ rarest species.
At Maido — the Lima restaurant recently crowned the best in the world — one of the star dishes is paiche, a giant prehistoric river fish.Its journey to the table begins on a small family farm deep in Peru’s Amazon.
“Jane Goodall forever changed how people think about, interact with and care for the natural world,” said Daniela Raik, interim CEO of Conservation International.
Conservation International’s Neil Vora was selected for TIME’s Next 100 list — alongside other rising leaders reshaping culture, science and society.
Climate change is happening. And it’s placing the world’s reefs in peril. What can be done?
After decades of negotiation, the high seas treaty is finally reality. The historic agreement will pave the way to protect international waters which face numerous threats.
The Amazon rainforest, known for lush green canopies and an abundance of freshwater, is drying out — and deforestation is largely to blame.
The ocean is engine of all life on Earth, but human-driven climate change is pushing it past its limits. Here are five ways the ocean keeps our climate in check — and what can be done to help.
In a grueling and delicate dance, a team led by Conservation International removes a massive undersea killer.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. These pictures might be worth even more. An initiative featuring the work of some of the world’s best nature photographers raises money for environmental conservation.
