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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.
The Naylors’ four-bedroom home in Milton Keynes acts like a mini-power station after retrofitting solar panels, a battery and a heat pump
Clare Naylor paid close attention to how much energy she and her family were using last winter, filling hot-water bottles and bringing out extra blankets to ensure they didn’t go over budget. This year, she won’t have to worry as she is guaranteed not to receive a bill.
While millions of British households face the highest energy charges in three years from today after a 4% rise in the price cap, and predictions of a 16% increase in January, upgrades to Naylor’s home mean she will not have to pay anything.
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The global climate phenomenon has triggered devastating infernos in the ape’s Indonesian heartlands, with long-term effects on the animals still unknown
The mother’s hands were peeling from walking on the torched ground. Her eight-month-old baby, which clung to her side, was dehydrated and thin. The pair, named Mama Abu and Abu (“ash” in Indonesian), were found in an oil palm subsidiary estate, rescuers say.
The orangutan pair were saved last month from wildfires that are devouring Indonesia’s forests and peatland, unleashing thick smog, and destroying the habitat of some of the planet’s most vulnerable species.
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Frome, Somerset: With a sway and a swoosh, we’re entering the season to enjoy psithurism – the aural quality of the breeze in the trees
The wind-catchers along the bottom of the valley miss nothing. Even the lightest breath has them whispering. And when the wind strengthens, they do a good imitation of the river streaming over boulders below their feet. Truly, when it blows, it pours.
Pass a poplar and you are enjoying the best example of psithurism, the sound of wind in trees. All this growing season, I have listened politely to oaks, alders and willows, but if I rocked up in a pub looking for chatty company, I’d want a poplar on the bar stool next to me.
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Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say.
Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026, according to an annual monitoring report, after a summer of scorching heatwaves that followed a winter with little snow. The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022 and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%.
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Environment Agency warns residents of 6m at-risk properties to prepare for wet and windy three months ahead
More than two million people in England are unaware their properties are at risk of flooding, as the UK braces for a wet and stormy start to the winter, according to the Environment Agency.
Experts say the next three months are more likely than usual to be wet and windy – due to a combination of large-scale weather patterns and the “subtle” impact of a supercharged El Niño – increasing the risk of flooding.
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Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather
Half a million trees will be planted across England in the next three years to protect against extreme weather, the environment secretary, Angela Eagle, will pledge on Wednesday morning.
Mayors, local authorities, charities and grassroots groups will be given new funding and responsibilities for restoring natural landscapes such as wetlands, river edges and meadows, which can provide natural flood management and reduce the damage done by droughts.
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Study says UK-based banks provided $8.3bn in coal financing in four years, with Barclays and HSBC leading rise
UK banks are Europe’s biggest financial backers of the global coal industry, providing billions of pounds in funding for the climate-wrecking fossil fuel in the past four years, according to a report.
The study found UK-based banks had provided $8.3bn (£6.2bn) in coal financing since Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021, when global leaders pledged to “phase down” coal use. This compared with $4.9bn from German banks and $3.4bn from French banks over the same period.
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Multinational tea companies still occupy ancestral highlands of communities displaced during British colonial era
For British colonialists, the fertile and cool uplands of central Kenya were the “White Highlands”, to be reserved exclusively for European settlers. Local communities were forced from the land, which was turned into plantations for tea and other crops.
In recent decades, descendants of the displaced have fought to reclaim their ancestral land, some of which is now occupied by multinational tea companies and other large corporations.
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The trains may be running late, but the Western Slopes project is already attracting birds and insects on lands around the high-speed railway
The air is scented with the sweet tang of ladies bedstraw and made musical by skylark and blackcap song. An abundance of marbled white butterflies, small skippers and common blue damselflies dart over the flowering knapweed, yarrow and wild carrot.
That the largest chalk grassland in the Chilterns is full of wildlife may not surprise you. But the fact that it is completely artificial, only four years old and has been built by the much-maligned HS2, may do.
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Fish and shellfish populations were falling rapidly as scallop dredgers devastated the seabed, but local activists and small-scale fishers battled hard to protect their coastline
Inside a bothy overlooking the Summer Isles, in the north-west of Scotland, the lilting tones of a traditional Gaelic duo fill a room full of musicians, storytellers, artists, local people and revellers, hung with fish-shaped lanterns and “Happy Birthday” signs.
It’s no ordinary birthday. The people in the small cabin have come together, on a windy night in Achiltibuie, a string of coastal hamlets and villages north of Ullapool, to celebrate an important milestone in the community’s history: a hard-won battle to protect their waters from the ravages of scallop dredging.
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Djeca majki s depresijom imala su više stope određenih neurorazvojnih poremećaja poput poremećaja iz autističkog spektra ili poremećaja pažnje s hiperaktivnošću (ADHD), kao i poteškoća u učenju te emocionalnih, bihevioralnih ili socijalnih poteškoća, bez obzira na to jesu li tijekom trudnoće bila izložena antidepresivima, navodi se u novoj britanskoj studiji.
Čini se da mikroplastika može značajno narušiti funkciju fagocita u jetri, barem kod miševa, pokazuju rezultati nove studije. To zauzvrat remeti metabolizam tog vitalnog organa i povećava nakupljanje masti u njemu.
Veće varijacije krvnog tlaka povezane s većim rizikom od smrt, pokazala je studija u kojoj je sudjelovalo više od 57.000 ispitanika. Varijacije u nekim mjerama krvnog tlaka također su bile povezane s moždanim udarima.
Masna bolest jetre često je povezana s pretilošću, no sve veći broj ljudi s normalnom tjelesnom težinom razvija težak oblik stanja. Znanstvenici s Medicinskog fakulteta Duke-NUS sada su identificirali zaseban mehanizam u mišjem modelu koji bi mogao pomoći objasniti zašto: višak soli u prehrani može promijeniti metabolizam jetre i pokrenuti upalne putove povezane sa steatohepatitisom povezanim s metaboličkom disfunkcijom (MASH).
Znanstvenici otkrivaju kako promjene crijevnih mikroba uzrokovane vježbanjem mogu utjecati na oporavak i predlažu novi pristup "crijevne rehabilitacije" za osobe s ograničenim kapacitetom vježbanja.
Kada pacijent stigne u bolnicu s predoziranjem acetaminofenom, u Europi poznatiji kao paracetamol, to je često utrka s vremenom. Jedini protuotrov odobren od strane FDA za oštećenje jetre povezano s predoziranjem, N-acetilcistein, mora se primijeniti unutar nekoliko sati da bi bio učinkovit.
Danas ne postoji tretman koji bi zaustavio smrt moždanih stanica kod neurodegenerativnih bolesti poznatih kao tauopatije, uključujući Alzheimerovu bolest, kod koje se u mozgu nakupljaju uvijene nakupine proteina zvanog tau. Stanice u blizini tih nakupina počinju odumirati nakon što se tau nakupi, ali sve više dokaza sugerira da većina štete ne dolazi izravno od proteina. Umjesto toga, odgovor imunološkog sustava na tau kriv je za štetu koja na kraju ljudima oduzima pamćenje i neovisnost.
Nesanica (insomnija) je povezana s 26% većim rizikom od moždanog udara i 28% većom vjerojatnošću prijema u bolnicu, prema novom istraživanju. Smatra se, da ovi rezultati podržavaju prepoznavanje nesanice kao važnog markera zdravlja mozga, mentalnog i općeg zdravlja.
U nedavno objavljenoj studiji znanstvenici su ispitali razlike u učestalosti konzumacije cjelovitog voća i 100%-tnog voćnog soka između osoba sa i bez kardiovaskularnih bolesti ili faktora rizika za kardiovaskularne bolesti.
Novo istraživanje pokazalo je da promjene u sastavu crijevnih bakterija mogu poslužiti kao rano upozorenje na dijabetes tipa 2. Analiza podataka prikupljenih od stotina tisuća pojedinaca otkrila je stotine promjena u sastavu crijevnog mikrobioma (zajednice mikroorganizama koja nastanjuje probavni sustav), a te se promjene mogu uočiti prije nego što dođe do bilo kakvih promjena u razini glukoze u krvi.
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.
