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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.
Cut in electric vehicle sales targets could add millions of tonnes of CO2 to emissions in UK, say green campaigners
Andy Burnham has been criticised for moving to cut electric vehicle (EV) sales targets and accept North Sea drilling at a time of devastating wildfires caused by the climate emergency.
The prime minister for the first time acknowledged on Friday that the climate crisis was behind hundreds of wildfires that have ripped across the parts of the UK.
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Social media and Shazam-like birdsong apps drawing young people to hobby as they seek a gentler connection to the outside world
Sorry Elon, but they’re not your kind of tweets. Social media users are flocking to TikTok to join a burgeoning trend for birding videos as the hobby attracts a younger demographic.
With the internet ever more cluttered with polarising, shouty and AI content, evidence is emerging of Britons preferring a gentler, more melodic window on the world in the shape of footage of the nation’s feathered friends.
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The Guardian travelled 100 miles along the EU’s longest river, where some residents are struggling to secure drinking water
For centuries, the rock was seen as a warning. When it began to emerge from the Danube, beneath Gellért Hill in Budapest, it meant the river had fallen so low that floating mills could no longer operate, crops were probably failing, and hunger would almost certainly follow. That is why, in the Hungarian capital, where over time the boulder became little more than a legend, it was named Ínség-szikla – the Rock of Starvation.
Today, amid record-low water levels on the Danube, the rock has not only emerged from the water, but surfaced almost in its entirety, along with the sandy riverbed on which it rests, astonishing geologists and government scientists sent to examine it. And, much as the rock was said to warn, Hungary is now facing an unprecedented energy crisis that has forced the country to shut down all but one of its Danube-cooled nuclear reactors for the first time in 44 years.
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We learn what to fear and reject from those around us. But if disgust can be learned, it can also be unlearned
Vote for your favourite invertebrate of the year
It was the summer of 2021 and I was standing in Hyde Park, London, trying to persuade passing tourists to come bug hunting with me. I was working on a campaign to increase public appreciation of invertebrates and, while I adore bugs, this job was teaching me how differently other people see them.
A woman and her young daughter stopped to chat. Grateful for a few minutes of respite, the woman turned to her phone while the child followed me to a nearby log. We lifted it to reveal one of the largest earthworms I’ve ever seen.
Voting is open for invertebrate of the year and will close at midnight BST on Sunday 16 August; vote here
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South Queensferry, West Lothian: The Burryman procession is one of Scotland’s most remarkable customs – and a changing of the guard is about to occur
While the Edinburgh festival grabs the headlines, just 10 miles away, one of Scotland’s most remarkable traditions takes place every August – the Burryman procession.
In this, part of the Ferry Fair, a local volunteer is covered in thousands of hooked burdock seedheads, which are attached in dense patches like Velcro. He spends up to 10 hours perambulating a seven-mile route around town, accompanied by two attendants, pausing at some 20 stops to collect charitable donations and accepting a libation of unmeasured whisky through a straw. This year’s procession is especially significant, as the identity of the Burryman is changing.
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Delay to rainy season in forest already damaged by human-driven heating could trigger powerful ‘Godzilla’ El Niño
As a supercharged climate scorches Europe with wildfire and deluges Asia with floods, the Amazon is bracing for a drought that strikes fear into the hearts of forest defenders and food producers alike. But it should worry even more of us.
Scientists are predicting that the peak of El Niño will occur at the worst possible time for the world’s biggest tropical rainforest: the end of the dry season between October and December, when rivers are at their lowest and undergrowth is most likely to be tinder dry. This will be a period of extreme vulnerability for the forest, which plays a globally important role in stabilising the climate and irrigating crops.
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Marine conservationist says deliberate attack would be ‘act of extreme cruelty’ against endangered population
Spanish officials have launched an investigation after the matriarch of an orca pod known for jostling and ramming boats off the Iberian Peninsula was spotted with wounds suggesting she had been shot by a pellet gun.
On Friday, Spain’s environment ministry said Toñi, the oldest living member of the pod, had been seen swimming in the Strait of Gibraltar with markings on her dorsal fin that were “consistent with shots from a pellet gun”.
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As wildfires rage across Europe and Britain swelters through its hottest summer on record, literary fiction has a vital role to play in capturing the severe consequences of climate crisis
Earlier this summer, I travelled through Europe on a book tour. Everywhere I went, the heat broke records. In Italy, Germany and Spain, I sought refuge from the afternoon sun in air-conditioned hotels. In normally temperate Zurich, it averaged 37 degrees. I jumped into the Limmat for relief. On my final day in Warsaw, Poland had never been hotter – one of 14 countries to hit a historic high. In June, when I left to return to the US, Europe was scorching. At the end of July, as I write this, it is burning.
Since the heatwaves began, there have been more than 10,000 excess deaths. Yet for many, myself included, the high temperatures brought nothing more than inconvenience – uncomfortable commutes, heat rash, less time outdoors. This seems to be a defining feature of today’s climate crisis; deadly for some, banal for others. Even when the world is on fire, it somehow doesn’t feel like an emergency for everyone.
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As parts of Beth Chatto’s visionary drought-tolerant gardens in Essex turn brown, the head gardener offers advice
Her debut book, in 1978, was titled The Dry Garden. Since then, the late Beth Chatto created a rich legacy with her expertise as a plantswoman and by setting up one of the oldest unwatered public gardens in England.
Once a car park but transformed in 1992 into an experiment to test what plants were drought-tolerant in Essex, the driest county in the UK, Chatto’s gravel gardens south of Clacton are being visibly tested this year.
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Low river levels have stalled German freight traffic and forced closure of nuclear plants in France
Across Europe this scorching summer, workers have struggled in the heat as wildfires raged and critical infrastructure was shut down.
Here we look at the impact of the heatwaves on several major economies across mainland Europe – with the help of analysis from economists at the Dutch bank Triodos, who estimate a total of €180bn could be wiped off EU GDP by the heatwaves. In the UK, the green thinktank Verdant said this week that the heat had already cost the economy £4.4bn by the end of July.
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Cijeljenje kostiju složen je proces koji ovisi o koordiniranoj aktivnosti mnogih različitih tipova stanica. Iako je poznato da stanice koje stvaraju kosti, zvane osteoblasti, obnavljaju oštećeno tkivo, studije sve više pokazuju da neke stanice izvan kostura ostaju neaktivne u normalnim uvjetima, ali mogu steći funkcije stvaranja kostiju nakon ozljede.
Istraživanja su pokazala da dobar noćni san ima mnoge prednosti, uključujući konsolidaciju pamćenja. Kako san omogućuje mozgu jačanje sjećanja još uvijek nije u potpunosti shvaćeno, no nova studija otkriva kako astrociti, moždane stanice poznate po potpori neuronima i njihovim funkcijama, mogu izravno regulirati moždane krugove uključene u konsolidaciju pamćenja.
Novo istraživanje povlači iznenađujuću vezu između dva stanja koja pogađaju milijune žena. Naime, nova velika studija otkriva da se žene s endometriozom suočavaju s 46% većim rizikom od razvoja dijabetesa tipa 2.
Kava je jedno od najčešće konzumiranih pića na svijetu, a prethodna istraživanja povezala su njezinu konzumaciju s nižim rizikom od stanja poput dijabetesa tipa 2 i kardiovaskularnih bolesti. Međutim, biološki mehanizmi koji stoje iza tih dobrobiti ostaju nejasni. Nova finska studija povezuje uobičajenu konzumaciju kave sa zdravijim sastavom tijela i metaboličkim markerima, a istovremeno otkriva različite veze sa spolnim hormonima kod muškaraca i žena.
Intenzivno, dugotrajno liječenje snižavanjem krvnog tlaka smanjilo je rizik od ponovljenog moždanog udara za 38%, bez povećanja ozbiljnih nuspojava, kod osoba koje su preživjele intracerebralno krvarenje (ICH), pokazali su rezultati analize više studija.
Trostruko negativni rak dojke čini otprilike 15% svih slučajeva raka dojke. Karakterizira ga odsutnost ekspresije estrogenskih receptora, progesteronskih receptora i HER2, što ga čini neosjetljivim na konvencionalne endokrine i ciljane terapije. Pacijenti se često suočavaju s većim rizikom od recidiva i metastaza, s općenito lošim prognozama, što ga čini značajnim izazovom u kliničkom liječenju.
Ultraprerađena hrana (UPF) čini gotovo 60% unosa energije za odrasle i 70% za djecu u SAD-u. Ovi industrijski proizvedeni proizvodi - poput bezalkoholnih pića, pakiranih žitarica i grickalica te prerađenog mesa - izrađeni su od rafiniranih masti, ulja, šećera, škroba, soli i drugih aditiva koji mogu poboljšati okus, teksturu i rok trajanja, a istovremeno smanjiti nutritivnu vrijednost.
Osobe sa sužavanjem koronarnih arterija imaju blagu, nekontroliranu upalu u tijelu, čak i ako nemaju simptome i primaju optimalno liječenje. Rezultati sugeriraju da imunološke stanice poznate kao neutrofili potiču tihu upalu koja može povećati rizik od daljnjih srčanih udara, ali se ne otkriva rutinskim kliničkim testovima.
Randomizirano ispitivanje dovodi u pitanje desetljeća opreza oko kofeina, otkrivajući da umjeren dnevni unos kave nije pogoršao fibrilaciju atrija i bio je povezan s manje klinički otkrivenih recidiva.
Studija u kojoj je sudjelovalo više od 143.000 ljudi sugerira da otprilike šačica orašastih plodova dnevno može ponuditi najveću korist u snižavanju krvnog tlaka, a veći unos povezan je sa znatno nižim rizikom od hipertenzije (visoki krvni tlak).
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.
