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Exclusive: Officials say Miatta Fahnbulleh minded not to give approval in victory for climate campaigners
Miatta Fahnbulleh is minded to reject the giant Rosebank oilfield, sources have told the Guardian, in what would be a blow for the North Sea energy industry and a major victory for climate campaigners.
After approving the smaller Jackdaw gasfield on Wednesday, officials say the energy secretary is leaning towards refusing approval for what would be one of the biggest oilfields in the North Sea.
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Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push
Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone.
After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds the Oulujoki River.
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New study reveals dramatic population drops in fish, cephalopods and more after the Deepwater Horizon spill
Marine life in the Gulf of Mexico plummeted by about 60% after BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and has still not fully recovered, according to a new study.
The April 2010 explosion of an offshore drillingunit 50 miles off the Louisiana coast triggered the largest marine oil spill in history, releasing 134m gallons of oil into the ocean. According to the study published Monday in PNAS, the disaster – which also killed 11 people and injured 17 others – led to the “sudden, severe and persistent declines in the abundance” of marine life for more than a decade.
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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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After decades of violent displacement and land theft, the country’s quilombolacommunities are fighting back
For most of his 39 years, Josias Dias dos Santos, known as Jota, has endured degrading cycles of displacement as a quilombola, a descendant of Black people once enslaved on Brazil’s sugar cane and coffee plantations. He says his and other quilombola families subsisting in the rainforests in Pará, northern Brazil, were first forced out of their settlements by violent loggers, then by ranchers and miners.
Yet, they say the worst came with the arrival of the palm oil industry in what is now the country’s most deforested state. Palm oil companies producing biofuels and supplying global customers, subsidised by the federal government, have laid claim to ever larger tracts of traditional quilombola territory over the past two decades.
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With no wind to disperse the low cloud, mist and fog and less sunlight to burn it off, anticyclonic gloom can set in
In summer, a high-pressure system over the UK usually means fine weather. But in the colder months it can result in anticyclonic gloom, characterised by grey skies, mist, fog and drizzle.
A settled high-pressure system brings stable conditions and impedes the usual vertical movement of air. This is a recipe for sunshine when humidity is low, but can act like a lid, trapping atmospheric moisture near the surface.
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Rare small blues and dingy skippers among species found on former wheatfields two years after start of transformation under commercial nature project
An “amazing” abundance of 5,290 butterflies, including rare small blues and dingy skippers, has appeared on land that was barren wheatfields just two years ago.
The speed with which nature has bounced back at Halnaker Hill farm in West Sussex has surprised experts after 133 hectares (330 acres) of intensively farmed land were turned into a commercial nature restoration project.
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Tijekom prvih tjedana trudnoće stanice u razvoju već postavljaju temelje za mozak. Željezo ima ključnu ulogu u organizaciji i oblikovanju stanica tijekom ove faze gestacije. Epidemiološke studije ukazuju na to da majke s niskom razinom željeza tijekom prvog tromjesečja trudnoće imaju veći rizik od rođenja djeteta kod kojeg se razvijaju kognitivni poremećaji, poput autizma, poremećaja pozornosti s hiperaktivnošću (ADHD) i poteškoća u učenju.
Proteini povezani s imunološkim sustavom, adhezijom stanica, stvaranjem krvnih žila i poznatim genima raka prostate povezani su s budućim rizikom od razvoja raka prostate, tvrdi nova studija.
Kod osoba s fibrilacijom atrija (AFib), nepravilnim srčanim ritmom, i intrakranijalnim krvarenjem (vrstom moždanog udara poznatom i kao krvarenje u mozgu), primjena antikoagulansa povezana je s manjim rizikom od ishemijskog moždanog udara i smrtnog ishoda, pokazuje nova studija.
Kod osoba hospitaliziranih zbog ishemijskog moždanog udara i fibrilacije atrija (AFib), uspostava normalnog srčanog ritma unutar osam tjedana nakon moždanog udara povezana je s manjim rizikom od ponovnog moždanog udara, navodi nova studija.
U nedavno objavljenoj studiji, utvrđeno je da osobe koje piju čaj imaju manji rizik od vaskularnih bolesti u usporedbi s onima koji ne piju čaj. Redovita konzumacija čaja bila je povezana s 11% manjim rizikom od pojave kardiovaskularnih bolesti, cerebrovaskularnih bolesti, plućne bolesti srca i bolesti perifernih arterija.
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.
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.
