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A ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ suggests need for large-scale movement of populations away from reshaped coast
Up to 13 million people in the UK face the long-term risk of coastal flooding due to the climate crisis, scientists have warned, with a “reasonable worst-case scenario” suggesting the need for the large-scale movement of populations away from a dramatically reshaped coast.
Even if today’s global pledges to cut carbon pollution are met, about 1.4 million more people will be exposed to coastal floods in 2200 and 1.7 million in 2300 due to the sea level rise driven by melting ice caps and warming oceans.
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Puffling excites volunteers trying to save the last known regular nesting site on mainland of southern England
For years, volunteers have craned their necks and tested their patience to peer into the crevices of the cliffs hoping for a glimpse of fluffy joy.
Finally it all paid off as a puffling – baby puffin – poked its way into the sunshine, becoming the first to be spotted on the coast of Dorset in southern England for three decades.
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Greenpeace petitions Dutch courts to order JBS to disclose how its aims are compatible with responsibilities to climate and human rights
The world’s biggest meat company, JBS, faces a landmark legal challenge to disclose how its $6bn (£4.5bn) global expansion plan is compatible with responsibilities to the climate, nature and human rights.
Courts in the Netherlands, where JBS is headquartered, will assess the petition filed by Greenpeace for information on whether the company is compliant with Dutch laws on “duty of care” as well as its own publicly stated commitments.
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Neso denies allegations aired by Tory MP that staff took part in cover-up over decision-making in heatwave
In a control room in Wokingham, Berkshire, staff work around the clock, minute by minute, to align Great Britain’s fluctuating power supplies with its ever-changing demand.
However, as households struggle to adapt to soaring summer temperatures, staff at the government-owned National Energy System Operator (Neso), tasked with keeping the lights on, have faced the kind of challenge usually reserved for the country’s coldest winter nights in recent weeks.
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Researchers listening off the Caribbean island of Dominica found variations in the mammals’ audible clicks when marine traffic was close
Sperm whales produce a specific pattern of clicking noises when they hear the noise of boats, researchers have found. The pattern is so distinct that the scientists who identified it said they can now use it to predict when ships are nearby.
Researchers from Project Ceti (the Cetacean Translation Initiative), a non-profit research organisation working to decode sperm whale communication, spent four years tuning in on the calls of 15 sperm whales off the coast of Dominica.
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Whales flown to US aquariums after long-running saga in which Marineland had threatened to euthanise them
Six beluga whales have at last left Marineland, the embattled Canadian marine park in Niagara Falls that previously threatened to kill its own animals, and are arriving at US aquariums this week.
While the whales’ journey into the US marks the end of their long and controversial saga of captivity in Canada, advocates say the new conditions, though superior to Marineland, could bring continued challenges.
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Trevone Bay, Cornwall: The odds of survival of these juveniles raised in a hatchery are 1,000 times greater than if they had been born in the wild
As I tipped the plastic pot, the juvenile lobster edged forwards, seemingly reluctant to take the plunge. Barely a couple of centimetres long, it had been nurtured through the perilous first weeks of life. Now it was free to roam the sea, with all the risks that entailed.
Shaped like a miniature clothes peg, tiny claws spread wide, it gave a flick of its tail and propelled itself out of the pot and down to the sandy bottom of the rock pool, before disappearing among tangles of seaweed.
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Despite official claims that the São Francisco River project supplies 12m people, many of those who had to make way for its construction in 2007 still have no water at all
A concrete canal cutting through the Caatinga scrubland feeds a surface reservoir two and a half miles from Maria de Fátima Ferreira da Silva’s home in rural Brazil. The canal passes Sertânia and continues until it reaches Monteiro, the next town along, where it spills its precious cargo into the bed of the Paraíba River – a human-directed inflow into the seasonally dry waterway.
Such proximity to a reliable water source would usually be considered a blessing in the sertão, a vast outback in Brazil’s north-east known for its punishing droughts. But not for Ferreira, who was displaced nearly 20 years ago by the construction of the canal and now lives in a house without any water supply, despite the nearby reservoir.
Maria de Fátima Ferreira da Silva in her maize crop at Salão productive rural village. She bathes at the reservoir and collects water there for her smallholding and donkey, and pays to fill her barrel with drinking water each month
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Portable fans, a ‘cooling necklace’, sun protective hats and more products we reach for when the heat won’t quit
If you’ve stepped outside lately, you know the heat isn’t letting up. With another round of triple-digit temperatures and heat advisories blanketing parts of the US, we asked our writers to share the things they rely on when summer gets unbearable.
They shared recommendations for portable fans, a powerful dehumidifier and shorts that keep you cool even after hours of walking. Multiple writers recommended REI’s Sahara hoodie. You’ll also find clever picks you may not have considered, such as reusable ice packs and a “cooling necklace”. Here are our 12 tried-and-true essentials that are keeping us from melting on hot, sticky summer days.
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Experts share tips to avoid the blood-sucking pests that can transmit Lyme disease and other illnesses on to humans
I won’t go into gory detail about the tick I found latched behind my ear approximately 35 hours after a hike in early June. Suffice it to say, the parasite was well fed, and I was horrified.
I am far from alone in making such a disgusting discovery. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), emergency room visits for tick bites have been unusually high in the US this year. Thirty-one million Americans are bitten by ticks annually – and the number has been trending up for over a decade. In the UK, ticks appear to be rising in number and species variety.
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Žene koje imaju komplikacije u trudnoći poput gestacijskog dijabetesa, preeklampsije ili prijevremenog poroda imaju značajno povećan dugoročni rizik od razvoja periferne arterijske bolesti kasnije u životu, tvrdi nova studija.
Kronična, niska upala u tijelu povezana je s mnogim današnjim vodećim uzrocima bolesti i smrti, uključujući rak, bolesti srca, metaboličke poremećaje i neurodegenerativne bolesti. No, znanstvenici su se mučili razumjeti što uzrokuje upalu ili kako preokrenuti njezine učinke. No, nedavno su znanstvenici identificirali timus, mali organ iza prsne kosti koji igra središnju ulogu u razvoju imunološkog sustava, kao ključnog igrača u upali.
Nedavno objavljena studija izvijestila je o znatno smanjenim razinama endogenog litija u mozgu kod osoba s Alzheimerovom bolešću i blagim kognitivnim oštećenjem. Također je pokazala da smanjenje litija u prehrani ubrzava fosforilaciju tau proteina, taloženje amiloida β (Aβ), gubitak mijelina i sinapsi te kognitivni pad u mišjim modelima.
Specifične neravnoteže i poremećaji oralnog mikrobioma povezani su sa simptomatskim artritisom šake, pokazala je nova studija. Naime, pokazalo se, da mikrobno okruženje usta može utjecati na proces bolesti artritisa šake koji je povezan s boli, ukočenošću i smanjenom snagom stiska te može ozbiljno narušiti kvalitetu života. Oralni mikrobiom igra ulogu u sistemskoj upali i blisko interagira s crijevnim mikrobiomom koji je značajno povezan sa simptomatskim artritisom šake.
Crijevo potpuno obnavlja svoju unutarnju sluznicu svakih nekoliko dana što je jedan od najbržih procesa obnove u ljudskom tijelu. Znanstvenici su sada otkrili da ovaj izvanredan podvig prati skrivena mreža specijaliziranih mezenhimalnih potpornih stanica koje rade iza kulisa, otkrivajući neočekivanu razinu organizacije unutar crijeva i nudeći nove tragove koji bi na kraju mogli informirati pristupe ozljedama crijeva i upalnim bolestima crijeva.
Antimikrobna rezistencija kod djece raste globalno i pogoršat će se tijekom sljedećeg desetljeća, ugrožavajući učinkovitost antibiotika koji spašavaju živote, prema prvoj svjetskoj platformi za praćenje.
Niska konzumacija voća i povrća glavni je preventabilni faktor kardiovaskularnih bolesti (KVB). Procjenjuje se da nedovoljan unos voća i povrća uzrokuje gotovo 3 milijuna smrtnih slučajeva od kardiovaskularnih bolesti i više od 70 milijuna godina života prilagođenih invaliditetu diljem svijeta.
Prethodne studije su otkrile da je kofein najpopularniji stimulans i psihoaktivna tvar na svijetu, a kava je najčešći način na koji ljudi konzumiraju kofein. Najnovija istraživanja podupiru zaključak da je za većinu odraslih osoba konzumiranje do 400 mg kofeina dnevno (ili do 5 šalica kave s kofeinom od 240 ml dnevno) sigurno i čini se da je povezano s nižim rizikom od kardiovaskularnih bolesti za neke osobe. Međutim, veće doze kofeina, poput razina koje se nalaze u energetskim pićima, mogu uzrokovati kardiovaskularnu štetu.
Šestomjesečno kliničko ispitivanje pokazalo je da su osobe s visokim genetskim rizikom za pretilost imale jednake koristi od savjetovanja o prehrani kao i one s niskim genetskim rizikom, što dovodi u pitanje ideju da DNK određuje uspjeh mršavljenja.
Epilepsija pogađa otprilike 50 milijuna ljudi diljem svijeta, no više od polovice osoba s pretpostavljenim genetskim uzrokom još uvijek nema molekularnu dijagnozu unatoč identifikaciji preko 1.000 monogenskih gena epilepsije. Malo je vjerojatno da će se ova dijagnostička praznina riješiti samo poboljšanim otkrivanjem varijanti, što sugerira da se varijante koje utječu na isti biološki put mogu kombinirati i uzrokovati bolest. U nedavno provedenom istraživanju znanstvenici su otkrili novi genetski put koji može dovesti do napadaja kada je isti poremećen.
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.
