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Bez obzira na to, Europska Komisija hoće produžiti dozvolu za glifosat poslije isteka u lipnju 2016, i to na 15 godina, najdulji mogući termin.
Zastupnici Europskog parlamenta, uključujći neke iz Hrvatske, su glasili protiv odluke Komisije u travnju 2016. Slijedi glasanje u svibnju 2016., ali ako nema zaključka, konačna odluka će donjeti Komisija.
Coming days are ‘absolutely critical’ for firefighters before temperatures rise again this week, officials say
Firefighters in France and Spain are racing to bring huge wildfires under control before another heatwave this week that will complicate efforts to tame the flames.
Spain’s interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, said Monday and Tuesday were “absolutely crucial days” before temperatures rise again from Wednesday, prompting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, to warn: “We face difficult hours, complex hours” ahead.
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Temperatures up to 35C forecast, triggering heat health alerts and pleas to take care in parched parks and rural areas
Paramedics and firefighters are braced for emergencies across the country this week after UK forecasters predicted a fourth heatwave of the year.
Temperatures are forecast to reach as high as 35C by Wednesday, triggering heat health alerts and an appeal from fire chiefs to take care in parched parks and rural areas.
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Intensive nature of modern chicken farming creates ideal conditions for campylobacter, allowing bacteria to evolve
Industrial chicken farming is accelerating the spread of the world’s most common bacterial cause of diarrhoea, scientists have found.
The study found a dramatic increase in the exchange of campylobacter strains between wild birds and chickens as farming has intensified, creating the ideal conditions for the bacteria to mix, spread and acquire new traits. There has also been a rise in antimicrobial resistance traits in circulating strains, raising concerns that serious illness in people will be more difficult to treat.
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North Yorkshire: It’s been a remarkable breeding season for these gorgeous creatures with ripped physiques and all-seeing eyes
“Just seen a gorgeous hare and thought of you. They’ve had an unbelievable breeding season.”
Like most farmers, my friend Richard is always busy and often exasperated. But he’s also refreshingly cognisant of his privilege and determined not to blow the opportunity to make a difference. Nature is always part of his management, and now and then I get a message sharing a wildlife update and take it as a cue to visit.
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Experts who helped Burnham draw up Manchester carbon neutral pledge say backtracking would send wrong message amid wildfires and heatwaves
Leading climate scientists who created Greater Manchester’s carbon neutral by 2038 commitment are urging Andy Burnham to unequivocally reject new drilling in the North Sea.
In a letterto the prime minister they said he, as mayor of Greater Manchester, had unveiled one of the UK’s most ambitious local climate programmes that tackled housing, green growth and public transport.
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From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown
“It rained for 10 days and 10 nights, non-stop – I’d never seen anything like it,” says Anar Gul, a construction worker who lives in the remote district of Dur Baba in eastern Afghanistan.
The houses in his village are built from stone and mud, which makes them extremely vulnerable to heavy rains. After days of rain, Gul’s kitchen collapsed and his neighbour, Sayed Afsar Sadat, saw a large part of his house completely destroyed. “Rains like this are coming heavier and earlier each year,” says Sadat. “They are destroying the roads and washing away our crops. It’s impacting us directly.”
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As heatwaves make the capital increasingly dangerous, outreach workers warn that vulnerable people face barriers to finding water and cool spaces
“You’ve just got to bear it. It’s like being in a hot country. It drains you,” said Tom*, a man in his 60s who has been homeless for a number of years. “I haven’t seen weather like this for as long as I’ve been outside.
“I keep to my routines, but you need to find somewhere to sit down and rest. Either some cardboard outside or you find somewhere they’ll let you sit and sleep a bit inside,” he added.
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Matthew Myerscough’s remarkable find is one of many detailed in his new book. But his journey into fossil hunting began years earlier, when he was caught in an avalanche
When Matthew Myerscough walks along a beach, he cannot help hunting for fossils. “I think my fossil radar is always on – even if I’m not looking, it’s hard sometimes to not see things,” says the 40-year-old civil engineer, who has discovered thousands of fossils on British beaches.
It was while he was “not looking” on Lavernock beach near Penarth, south Wales, that he recently stumbled across the fossilised bone of an early type of plesiosaur, a marine reptile that roamed the oceans while dinosaurs stalked the land during the early Jurassic period.
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Hundreds of thousands of residents and holidaymakers in France and Spain have been forced to evacuate
Wildfires have forced about 375,000 people to leave their homes in France and Spain.
In France, nearly 260,000 have had to flee, while in neighbouring Spain 116,000 have been evacuated as the wildfires continue to wreak havoc across southern Europe.
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With large areas still burning, damage from national park’s worst blaze could take decades, if not longer, to put right
It is the jewel in the crown of the Highlands, one of Scotland’s most impressive natural landscapes, but 12 days on from the start of an enormous wildfire that is tearing through moorland and forest, the Cairngorms national park is unrecognisable.
Hectares of blackened land were visible as low cloud cleared on Sunday, with smoke billowing into the air from large areas still ablaze. In the evening, the sky glowed an eerie orange.
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Studija koju je provela Cleveland Clinic pokazuje vezu između povišenih razina TMAO-a (trimetilamin N-oksida) u krvi - nusprodukta probave hranjivih tvari koje se nalaze u crvenom mesu i drugim životinjskim proizvodima - i većeg rizika od fibrilacije atrija. Naime, pokazalo se, da TMAO koji proizvode crijevni mikrobi mijenja električno okruženje srca, povećavajući osjetljivost na abnormalne ritmove.
Prema rezultatima novog istraživanja, izgleda da je mikroglija primarni pokretač gubitka sna kod Alzheimerove bolesti. Korištenjem lijeka za privremeno uklanjanje tih stanica u životinjskim modelima, znanstvenici su uspješno obnovili više od dva sata sna dnevno, pružajući novu metu za liječenje bolesti.
Djeca hospitalizirana s teškom upalom pluća mogu sigurno prijeći s injekcijskih na oralne antibiotike nakon što se počnu oporavljati, što mnogima omogućuje brži povratak kući i završetak liječenja izvan bolnice, pokazuje nova studija.
Primarni bilijarni kolangitis rijetka je autoimuna bolest koja utječe na jetru i može napredovati u cirozu. Nastaje kada imunološki sustav napadne male žučne kanale unutar jetre. Kao rezultat toga, žuč se nakuplja, što dovodi do upale i progresivnog oštećenja jetre. Iako postoji terapija prve linije, 40% pacijenata ne reagira adekvatno na nju ili je ne može tolerirati, pa je potrebno razviti nove mogućnosti liječenja.
Od staničnog recikliranja do kognitivnog starenja, spermidin privlači znanstveni interes, ali dokazi potrebni za rutinsku ljudsku upotrebu još se pojavljuju. Spermidin je sveprisutni prirodni poliamin i mimetik kalorijske restrikcije, neophodan za staničnu proliferaciju i homeostazu tkiva.
Izmjena plazme može pomoći u liječenju ljudi s rijetkom upalnom bolešću koja može uzrokovati sljepoću, pokazuje nova studija. Izmjena plazme dovela je do oporavka većine ljudi s bolešću, koja se naziva bolest povezana s antitijelima protiv mijelinskog oligodendrocitnog glikoproteina (MOGAD), a nuspojave su bile rijetke.
Terapije deplecije B-stanica, u kojima se privremeno uklanjaju B-stanice imunološkog sustava, koje mogu pokretati aktivnost bolesti kod multiple skleroze, značajno su doprinijele poboljšanju liječenja pacijenata posljednjih godina. No, sada su znanstvenici otkrili prethodno nepoznati mehanizam putem kojeg terapije deplecije B-stanica doprinose boljem tijeku bolesti kod pacijenata s multiplom sklerozom. Iznenađujuće, čini se da liječenje dio svog blagotvornog učinka ostvaruje mobilizacijom regulatornih imunoloških stanica koje se prirodno nalaze u crijevima.
Okultna infekcija virusom hepatitisa B (OBI) predstavlja značajan globalni zdravstveni izazov, poznato je da prolazi ispod radara standardnog virusnog probira dok neumoljivo potiče patogenezu hepatocelularnog karcinoma (HCC). Kritičan, ali slabo shvaćen faktor u tumorogenezi povezanoj s okultnom infekcijom virusom hepatitisa B je česta pojava mutacija u genomskoj regiji HBV pre-S.
Meta-analiza više studija u kojima je sudjelovalo gotovo 2 milijuna sudionika povezuje veći unos crvenog mesa s rizikom od raka gušterače, dok unos prerađenog mesa nije pokazao statistički značajnu povezanost.
Parkinsonova bolest je progresivni neurodegenerativni poremećaj uzrokovan gubitkom neurona koji proizvode dopamin, što dovodi do motoričkih simptoma poput tremora, ukočenosti, usporenog pokreta i oštećene ravnoteže, kao i kognitivnog pada. Iako trenutni tretmani pomažu u ublažavanju simptoma, ne mogu zaustaviti napredovanje bolesti.
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.
