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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.
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Exclusive: Officials say Miatta Fahnbulleh minded not to give approval in victory for climate campaigners
Miatta Fahnbulleh is leaning towards rejecting the giant Rosebank oilfield, the Guardian understands, in what would be a blow for the North Sea energy industry and a major victory for climate campaigners.
Officials say the energy secretary is minded to refuse approval for the field, which would be one of the biggest in the North Sea. Fahnbulleh approved the smaller Jackdaw gasfield on Wednesday, prompting protests from some in the green movement.
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As glaciers melt and permafrost thaws, Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic islands of Svalbard, faces climate-induced problems from tap water to housebuilding to landslides
• Heavy metals make Norwegian village’s tap water toxic
On a rugged mountain plateau of snow-dusted rocks, in the remote archipelago of Svalbard, a glaciologist, Andy Hodson, points out the “ears” of ice, white against the rock, that gave Foxfonna glacier its name, after the arctic fox.
The small glacier, on a mountain 8 miles (15km) outside the Norwegian village of Longyearbyen, is a popular summer hike for tourists who come here seeking the Arctic experience.
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Action needed to avoid disastrous overshoot of climate targets, according to organisation’s environment body
The world needs to cut carbon emissions by nearly a fifth in the next four years, and by close to half within a decade, to avoid overshooting climate targets by a disastrous margin.
Although the “window has closed” on holding temperature rises to 1.5C, in line with scientific advice, limiting the “overshoot” of that target is still possible, according to the UN Environment Programme (Unep).
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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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United Utilities, Environment Agency and local campaigners say 12-mile tunnel could take sewage away from England’s largest lake
Plans are under way for a new giant tunnel to transport sewage away from Windermere, England’s largest lake.
Windermere, in the Lake District, has suffered from widespread raw sewage and bacterial pollution driven by discharges from United Utilities. Campaigners say this pollution has caused more frequent toxic blue-green algal blooms, with the public advised to avoid swimming in the lake.
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Poole, Dorset: At this time of year, migrants are constantly on the move here, whether leaving, arriving or just stopping to refuel
With the sadness of our summer migrants departing the UK for another year comes the joy of our wintering birds returning. Working in conservation at Poole harbour, I’m out most days, connected to the ebb and flow of this change.
As it is one of the largest natural harbours in the world, and located on the East Atlantic Flyway, birds are constantly on the move here, whether leaving, arriving or stopping to refuel.
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This summer alone, 26 local authorities in the UK had to stop accepting fridges and freezers for recycling. Now the appliances are piling up around the country – with no proper disposal date in sight
Not much is happening in the tiny Norfolk hamlet of Little Hautbois on the day I visit. The pub, once popular with airmen from RAF Coltishall, stopped being a pub a long time ago, even before RAF Coltishall stopped being RAF Coltishall. It’s not Saturday, so there are no weddings at Hautbois Hall. Nor is it 19 May, so the restless, headless ghost of Thomas Boleyn isn’t driving his carriage across the bridge over the River Bure, as he is said to do on the anniversary of the execution of his daughter, Anne. Today, a lovely autumn one, all is as it should be.
But half a mile down a narrow country lane is an incongruous and baffling sight: a strip of gentle hillside made up of large white rectangular blocks, piled up and sparkling in the sunshine. A glacier, you might think, if you were in Norway rather than Norfolk. (And ice is involved, as it happens.) As you get nearer, the picture becomes clearer; the blocks have coils on one face, doors and handles on the opposite one, plus the manufacturers’ names. It’s a glacier of fridges, more than 3,000 of them.
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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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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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Inspired by a gothic cathedral partly built using human bones, this gleaming monument to recycling boasts 82,000 bricks derived from construction waste – following a two-day brick-making festival
Museums often try to reflect the world around them, but rarely are they made so literally of their surroundings as the new design museum in Ghent. Rising above the Belgian city’s medieval tiled rooftops like an angular white watchtower, the new building has vacuumed up the city’s condemned concrete frames, windows, car windscreens, sinks and old toilets, and transformed them, phoenix-like, into a gleaming monument to recycling.
“There’s nothing new about reuse,” says Andy Groarke, co-founder of Carmody Groarke, the London-based architects who designed the €20m (£17m) project with local firms Atama and Re-st. “We’ve just forgotten how to do it.”
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Poznato je da se kod amiotrofične lateralne skleroze (ALS) javljaju istodobne patološke promjene u mozgu, no njihova povezanost s progresijom bolesti ostala je nejasna. U novoj studiji znanstvenici su istraživali kako promjene povezane s Alzheimerovom bolešću utječu na prognozu kod ALS-a.
Novo istraživanje otkrilo je veći rizik od perinatalne depresije kod trudnica sa sindromom nemirnih nogu. Rezultati pokazuju da su trudnice sa sindromom nemirnih nogu imale tri puta veću vjerojatnost da će razviti perinatalnu depresiju, koja uključuje velike depresivne epizode tijekom trudnoće ili mjesecima nakon poroda.
Simptomi anksioznosti i depresije tijekom trudnoće povezani su s višim razinama "moždane magle u trudnoći", pokazuje nova studija. Tada trudnice mogu iskusiti narušenu koncentraciju, propuste u pamćenju i zaboravnost.
Procjenjuje se da migrene pogađaju 10 do 29 posto žena tijekom menopauzalnog prijelaza, kada se migrene često pogoršavaju i postaju češće, posebno tijekom perimenopauze. To je zbog nepredvidivih padova estrogena. Nova studija sugerira da će žene u postmenopauzi koje koriste hormonsku terapiju iskusiti češće i dugotrajnije migrene.
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.
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.
