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Don Jurica služi Misu u Pitvama, 2014.
Photo: Vivian Grisogono
„Već nam danima fali taj don Jurica. Ali puno više nedostajat će nam u crkvi jelšanskoj, za oltarom, naročito u ispovjedaonici u kojoj ste ga mogli naći i ‘upotrijebiti’ u svako doba. A nakon odlaska časnih iz Jelse, on je preuzeo i poprilični dio sakristanske službe: otvaranje crkve, regulaciju zvonjave, pripremanje oltara za misu…“, rekao je don Stanko na pogrebu 23.04.2019.
Brussels uses WTO rules to quickly impose quota, which will halve Chinese market share to 3%
The EU is to limit the number of hybrid electric vehicles imported from China to 350,000 cars a year, the European Commission has confirmed.
Imports have been soaring in the past two years; about 800,000 battery and plug-in hybrids are likely to be sold this year.
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Clear skies bring warm days and cold nights to Montenegro, while a low-pressure system moves towards Aegean Sea
Temperatures fluctuated dramatically in the Balkans last week, with unusually large differences between daytime highs and overnight lows – known as the diurnal range.
An area of high pressure over the region brought prolonged sunshine during the day, while clear skies at night allowed temperatures to drop rapidly as heat escaped into the atmosphere without cloud cover to slow the cooling.
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Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
Ministers are preparing to slash the amount of money available to subsidise heat pumps as they look for ways to fund higher defence spending, sources have told the Guardian.
Miatta Fahnbulleh, the energy secretary, has been tasked with finding more than £2bn in savings from her budget to help pay for defence investment under a plan drawn up by the previous government.
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Food producers are adding their voices to the chorus of warnings about the vulnerability of British supply chains
“There are so many decent, capable, productive, efficient arable farmers out there, asking how they are supposed to finance the crop they are meant to be putting in the ground,” Jamie Burrows says.
Sitting in his tractor at his arable farm in Norfolk, Burrows is listing the multiple challenges facing him and other food producers.
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In the Atacama desert, the extraction of lithium – so crucial to addressing the climate crisis – comes with escalating social and environmental costs
A high-altitude desert plateau traverses Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. I am on the Chilean side, sitting in a Jeep along with two other researchers. The afternoon air is thin and brisk but the sun is piercing – a combination I am familiar with from years of living and travelling in South America’s Andean range.
The landscape is a study in contrasts and contours: broad basins suddenly cut off by sweeping curves; flat expanses sliced by near vertical ascents. The Licancabur volcano looms large above us. Vegetation and humidity levels change rapidly with the rising altitude, bringing cooler temperatures, wetter air and denser plant life.
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John Mitani spent years studying a huge community of chimpanzees in Uganda. But then things took a dark turn – and his findings stunned the scientific world
John Mitani can still remember the first time he set foot in Uganda’s Kibale national park. The old-growth east African rainforest enveloped him, its canopy stretching to heights of 40 metres. Fruit trees bowed under the weight of African star apples and bountiful Ficus mucuso figs. And then there were the chimpanzees. Furry black blobs darted through the jungle, their raucous calls often deafening.
It was the summer of 1995, and Mitani, a primatologist from northern California, had just come from working with the chimps living in the Mahale mountains of Tanzania. At the time, Mahale was home to the largest known population of chimps, with about 100 individuals. But there were rumours that this section of Kibale – only accessible via a 12-hour drive from the capital, Kampala – might host an even more unusual abundance of apes.
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Some of deaths came from falling trees as half a million people without power and rain and flooding still a concern
At least four people were reported dead on Saturday amid Isaias after it made landfall late on Friday on Florida’s panhandle as a category 2 hurricane, according to authorities.
The storm also took down trees, knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands and flooded highways – but as Saturday evening approached, the region was reopening.
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The 21-year-old goalkeeper wants to impress on football the need to change old habits for the sake of the planet
“I’m a bit of an outlier as a person, I like being unique in who I am and what I do,” says the former Arsenal goalkeeper Alexéi Rojas, who combines saving shots with saving the planet. “I would say that was one of the biggest pulls for me to become a goalkeeper. I like being different.”
There is plenty to make him stand out. By 15, Rojas was changing the way people thought at Arsenal, transforming attitudes at the academy’s Hale End training ground where he would cycle, rather than get a lift from his parents. Rojas’s interest in the climate crisis began thanks to his mother, who works in wind energy. He would visit her office to learn more about renewables and their potential.
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A dry summer has left the Bristol Channel island critically short of water, forcing visitor caps and talk of evacuating its 28 residents
Tom Carr was peering up at the clouds scudding around the island of Lundy, 10 miles off the coast of north Devon. “That one’s definitely got rain in it,” he said. “The mainland will be wet at the moment. And look over at Wales – it’s getting a real soaking just now.”
But above Lundy the sky was, stubbornly, blue. No significant rain has fallen here since the start of May, leading to perilously low water levels. Restrictions have been put in place, visitor numbers limited and there has been talk of the island – home to 28 people – being evacuated.
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Heat and humidity have led to one of the worst mosquito years in recent history, with West Nile virus at a decade high
Los Angeles might be best known for blue skies, beaches and film premiers — but for the last several years it’s held another, unenviable distinction: the most mosquito-infested city in America.
And this year has been especially nightmarish, thanks to a series of heatwaves and an extra-powerful El Niño. Locals have called it a summer of “living hell” as clouds of mosquitoes swarm backyards and leave diners at open air patios scratching their ankles.
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Američki znanstvenici identificirali su nove genetske kandidate koji pomažu objasniti zašto se autizam dijagnosticira otprilike četiri puta češće kod dječaka nego kod djevojčica. Naime, nova studija otkriva da bi male promjene u genu MECP2 na X-kromosomu mogle pomoći u objašnjavanju dijela te razlike.
Znanstvenici su otkrili da je vjerojatnije da će žene s bipolarnim poremećajem koje imaju redovite menstrualne cikluse prijaviti teške predmenstrualne simptome nego one s neredovitim ciklusima.
Nova studija sugerira da niske doze LSD-a mogu imati različite učinke na održanu pažnju kod žena i muškaraca. Rezultati, predstavljeni na godišnjem kongresu ECNP-a u Münchenu, preliminarni su, no pridonose sve većem broju dokaza da ljudi možda ne reagiraju na isti način na mikrodoziranje psihodelika.
Celijakija je autoimuna bolest kod koje imunološki sustav nepovoljno reagira na gluten. Konzumacija glutena uzrokuje upalu u crijevima, što može oštetiti crijevo i narušiti njegovu sposobnost apsorpcije hranjivih tvari. Bolest se liječi potpunim izbjegavanjem glutena. Iako se mnoge osobe s celijakijom strogo pridržavaju prehrane bez glutena, trenutni krvni testovi ne pokazuju uvijek jasno postoji li i dalje upala ili oštećenje crijeva.
Dvije velike međunarodne studije pružaju novi uvid u regulaciju sastava majčinog mlijeka, pokazujući da neke komponente reagiraju na prehranu majke, dok druge ostaju stabilne ili odražavaju biološke procese uključene u laktaciju i rast dojenčeta.
Iako se čini da se stopa pretilosti odraslih u SAD-u usporava, pretilost djece ostaje povijesno visoka, pogađajući gotovo 1 od 5 djece školske dobi. Mnogi napori za rješavanje ove trajne zdravstvene krize potiču djecu da odjednom naprave više promjena u prehrani - poput povećanja tjelesne aktivnosti, poboljšanja prehrane i više sna - ali te su intervencije često teško provedive i nerealne za djecu i obitelji.
Novo američko istraživanje sugerira da biste trebali dobro razmisliti prije nego što posegnete za kasnonoćnim zalogajem ako želite očuvati zdravlje jetre. Naime, studija bilježi povezanost između konzumacije hrane kasno u noć i povećanog rizika od dviju vrsta bolesti jetre: steatotičke bolesti jetre povezane s metaboličkom disfunkcijom i ciroze jetre.
Endometrioza je multifaktorijalna, estrogenom ovisna upalna bolest karakterizirana visokom kliničkom varijabilnosti. Sve više dokaza ističe ulogu disbioze crijevnog mikrobioma u patofiziologiji endometrioze. Međutim, povezanost između mikrobioma, težine simptoma i genetike domaćina ostaje slabo opisana.
Globalna analiza otkriva kako infekcije koje se mogu spriječiti utječu na pojavnost raka s obzirom na regije, uzročnike infekcija i populacije. Nedavno objavljena studija procijenila je da je 2024. godine zabilježeno 2,3 milijuna novih slučajeva raka povezanih s infekcijama, što čini 12% svih slučajeva raka. Većina slučajeva pripisana je infekcijama bakterijom Helicobacter pylori i humanim papiloma virusom (HPV).
Mikrobiom osobe može pomoći u određivanju hoće li razviti vrućicu nakon cijepljenja, tvrdi nova studija. Naime, rezultati sugeriraju da bi crijevni mikrobiom i potencijalno prehrana jednog dana mogli biti usmjereni na smanjenje upale povezane s cjepivom bez ugrožavanja imunološke zaštite koju pružaju cjepiva.
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.
