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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.
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
On her first day as an expert author on the world’s most important climate reports, Prof Julia Steinberger knew nobody else, so she sat down at a stranger’s table for breakfast.
“Hi, I’m Julia. I’m from the University of Lausanne,” she said. The man across the table replied: “I’m Mustafa Babiker. I work with Saudi Aramco.”
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Rafael Moreno, whose company has opened demo plant in Brazil, says market is ‘nervous’ as Trump-Xi summit looms
The head of a mining company hoping to supply the EU with rare earths in two years’ time has said it is “paramount” to end China’s stranglehold on the supply of the raw materials used in everything from cars to wind turbines and military jets.
As Donald Trump and China’s president, Xi Jinping, prepare to meet on Thursday in their second summit of the year, Rafael Moreno said it was also “imperative” that they do a deal for Beijing to ease up, once again, on its threat to ban exports of rare earths.
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Brigg, Lincolnshire: As my attention turns to drilling next year’s cash crops, I create a disturbance out in the fields
Sometimes a moment of surprise has years of experience behind it. Last week as I was out in the oilseed rape fields applying a cocktail of microbe food (molasses, humates and fish paste), I had quite a shock when up went a large flock of grey partridges, a covey of 26. Twelve would be considered large, with red-legged partridges only ever appearing in pairs, but I’ve not seen 26 grey here in my lifetime.
This is testament to our nature‑friendly approach to farming, including this year planting specific margins to encourage sawfly larvae, crickets, weevils and ground beetles. These insects form the entire diet of grey partridges (and yellowhammers) during their first two weeks of life. In addition, rather than just planting overwinter cover crops and “catch” crops to mop up loose nutrients and protect the soil from the elements, I now add millet, the seed of which is a boost for older birds. The idea is to create a mosaic of habitats that connect through the landscape.
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Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?
It was, according to the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, the “summer of truth”. Climate chaos ripped through Europe and the northern hemisphere, sending heat records tumbling, scorching crops in the fields, burning forests, emptying rivers and reservoirs, warping train tracks, melting roads and killing about 35,000 people in Europe alone.
The EU has estimated the damage at about €180bn, and the full bill is yet to arrive: harvests have been depleted, which will probably raise food price inflation, and expensive repairs to infrastructure have only just begun.
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Much of the UK is still officially in drought after its hottest summer on record, but grasslands are slowly recovering their colour
The landscapes of southern England and Wales are slowly regaining their colour after this summer’s extreme heat.
The UK’s hottest summer on record left the south of the country dried out and brown, making the impact of the drought particularly visual.
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After summer’s heatwaves, prepare for winter of storms and heavy rain, with millions of UK homes at risk of flooding
The accelerating climate crisis and this year’s record-breaking El Niño mean that, although the summer’s heatwaves are still fresh in the memory, households in the UK are already being told to prepare for a potentially destructive winter of storms and heavy rain – leaving millions of homes at risk of flooding.
Government action is needed to improve flood defences and build reliance on a national and regional level. But with the UK’s flood season just weeks away, the Guardian spoke to experts to find out what action communities and individuals can take to make their neighbourhoods and homes more resilient, from self-closing airbricks to deflated children’s footballs.
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The world is suddenly full of webs and hairy legs. But why? And what do they belong to? Meet the spiders you’re most likely to encounter, from cardinals to false wolves
Summer is at an end, and suddenly spiders seem to be everywhere – in your house, in your garden, in your hair. Fresh webs hang from doorways, walls, shrubs and fence posts, creating invisible obstacle courses. Where do all these spiders come from, what kind are they and what, if anything, should we do about them?
The short answer to the question “Why are there so many more spiders at this time of year?” is: there aren’t. They are just more obvious. Dave Clarke, an ectotherm (“cold-blooded” animal) specialist at the Zoological Society of London, says: “There are more spiders around in the spring, because that’s when they hatch from their egg sacs, and there are hundreds of babies in each egg sac. But they’re small and not very obvious. They grow up during the summer and, at this time of year, they reach their maximum size.” Their webs are also correspondingly larger.
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Intensified by this year’s super El Niño, fires in Borneo and Sumatra are emitting toxic air for swathes of the population in Indonesia and its neighbours
For months, parts of Indonesia’s Borneo and Sumatra islands have been ablaze. The fires are sometimes lit illegally as a cheap way to clear land for plantations of oil palm, of which Indonesia is the world’s largest producer.
So prevalent is the technique that it even has a special term: slash and burn.
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People are increasingly crossing paths with the wild animals as homes ring the outskirts of forests, sparking a new era of coexistence
Every year, as summer draws to a close and fall begins, California’s bears get hungry.
Black bears have long roamed the state, hunting for acorns, ants and pine nuts by the bucketload to pack on calories before hibernation. But increasingly, for every berry and root, there’s an even greater temptation: our trash and the detritus of human existence.
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Trump says he digs coal – but pneumoconiosis cases are at a 50-year high, and sick miners are mired in benefit delays
For 38 years, Josh Armes worked as a coal miner in West Virginia and Virginia.
After retirement, Armes, 74, of Grundy, Virginia, was diagnosed with black lung disease, medically known as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP), caused by breathing in coal dust over long periods, which irreversibly damages the lungs.
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Znanstvenici s Medicinskog fakulteta Icahn pri bolnici Mount Sinai otkrili su da osobe s bulimijom nervozom imaju strukturne razlike u moždanim regijama uključenima u sustave nagrađivanja i motivacije te u procese društvene i senzorne obrade informacija. Također su utvrdili da je učestalije prejedanje povezano s opsežnijim razlikama u strukturi mozga.
Nedavna objavljena studija sugerira povezanost između prijavljene konzumacije fermentiranih mliječnih proizvoda i niže smrtnosti od svih uzroka i kardiovaskularnih bolesti među odraslim osobama u SAD-u.
Rak probavnog sustava te bilijarnog trakta i gušterače često je teško otkriti u ranoj fazi, što stvara potrebu za praktičnim, neinvazivnim pristupima ranom otkrivanju i procjeni rizika. Crijevni mikrobiom pokazao se kao potencijalni izvor biomarkera za rak, nudeći praktične mogućnosti za neinvazivno testiranje jer se promjene u mikrobiomu mogu procijeniti analizom uzoraka stolice.
Jedan od razloga zašto je rak gušterače i dalje tako smrtonosan jest taj što se obično otkriva kasno, nakon što se već proširio. No, sada je nova studija pokazala da je tekuća biopsija, nazvana PANXEON, vrlo osjetljiva u otkrivanju raka gušterače prvog i drugog stadija te da ima nisku stopu lažno pozitivnih rezultata. Eksperimentalni test također je omogućio prepoznavanje displazije visokog stupnja – predkanceroznog stanja gušterače – čime se potencijalno omogućuje intervencija prije nego što se rak razvije.
Nova studija osvjetljava vezu između Epstein-Barr virusa (EBV) i multiple skleroze (MS), ukazujući na uzročnu ulogu reaktivacije virusa u pokretanju napada multiple skleroze kod osoba s određenim genetskim čimbenicima rizika.
Prema novom kliničkom ispitivanju, prirodni spojevi u soku od naranče regulirali su gene uključene u kontrolu funkcije kardiovaskularnog sustava i krvnih žila. Znanstvenici su utvrdili da su muškarci koji su tijekom šest tjedana svakodnevno pili 330 ml 100-postotnog soka od naranče apsorbirali bioaktivne spojeve iz agruma, uključujući hesperidin, te pokazali promjene u aktivnosti gena povezanih sa zdravljem krvnih žila.
Analiza 23 studije pokazala je da je poremećaj pozornosti s hiperaktivnošću (ADHD) povezan s gotovo 50 posto većom učestalošću gastrointestinalnih simptoma u usporedbi s osobama bez ADHD-a. Poveznica je bila još izraženija kod specifičnih problema: gotovo dvostruko veći rizik od zatvora, 58 posto veća učestalost sindroma iritabilnog crijeva te više od četiri puta veći rizik od enkopreze (gubitka kontrole nad pražnjenjem crijeva).
Rezultati osmogodišnje eksplorativne analize ispitivanja ADAURA (faza III) pokazali su da adjuvantni osimertinib i dalje pruža dugoročnu korist u pogledu ukupnog preživljenja pacijenata s potpuno reseciranim karcinomom pluća ne-malih stanica (NSCLC) stadija IB-IIIA s EGFR mutacijom.
Danas postoje čvrsti dokazi da je izloženost onečišćenom zraku štetna za srce i pluća. Mnogo se manje zna o utjecaju onečišćenja zraka na oči, iako su one izravno izložene. Znanstvenici ističu da njihovi nalazi podupiru potrebu za strožim standardima kvalitete zraka i mjerama za smanjenje onečišćenja.
Izloženost svjetlu tijekom noći povezana je sa značajnim i potencijalno štetnim promjenama u strukturi i funkciji srca, tvrdi nova studija. Inače, prethodne opservacijske studije povezale su izloženost svjetlu noću s povećanim rizikom od kardiovaskularnih bolesti, no malo se znalo o povezanim promjenama u strukturi i funkciji srca.
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.
