First Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season makes landfall in the US
We have a statement from the Alabama governor, Kay Ivey:
Right now, we are worried about strong winds, heavy rain and possible spinoff tornadoesin certain parts of the state. As we approach the weekend and any travel plans, make sure you have reliable information as conditions develop. We often hear in emergency management: Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst. That is the approach we need with this particular storm system. After all, we only want to see one Tide roll this weekend. Y’all be safe, heed local warnings and stay weather aware.”
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Changing tide levels, shifting sands and hardened shorelines put waves at risk, affecting more than just surfers
The climate crisis is coming for some of the world’s greatest surf breaks, submerging some as sea level rises and wiping out others as classic breaks get crushed against coastal developments.
Analysis of dozens of famous waves in world surfing reserves (WSR) found more than three-quarters were at high risk because of changing tide levels, hardened shorelines and shifting sands.
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Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
Water companies in the UK made more than £340m in revenue last year by pouring billions of litres of industrial and commercial wastewater into sewage treatment works that experts say are not designed to remove most chemicals, leaving pollutants to pass into rivers, seas and farmland.
Water companies in England are required by law to take industrial wastewater and issue permits called “trade-effluent consents” that allow businesses to send it to sewage works, though water companies can refuse applications.
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Lockerbrook, Derbyshire: Last week they were here, now they are not. Yet the details of their epic migration are still a mystery to us
The sudden absence of something, even though you know it’s coming, can dent the heart a little. The Japanese, inevitably, have a phrase for it: mono no aware, the pathos of things – and by things, in this case, I mean house martins.
Last week I had stood in the same spot, looking across the same valley. The weather then was much the same as it was today, low‑angled sunlight through patchy cloud lighting up the yellowing birch leaves and bronzing moors on the north-eastern slopes of Kinder Scout. It had picked out the spread wings of a buzzard a little below my eyeline, along with a haze of large insects, which in fact, I quickly realised, were house martins.
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‘The climate issue is the security issue,’ says Turkish minister at Pacific pre-Cop summit in Fiji
Wealthy countries should spend far more on dealing with the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence because “the climate issue is the security issue”, the host of the next UN summit has said.
But, in comments that are likely to prove contentious, the Cop31 president-designate, Murat Kurum, hedged on whether countries should try to repeat a previous agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels” – the primary cause of the climate crisis – when they meet in Turkey next month.
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Installation of eight canopy bridges in Alta Floresta has enabled 15,000 safe crossings by animals including spider monkeys and marmosets – and more bridges are planned elsewhere
By about 7am, with dense fog blanketing the landscape, Gabriel Falquetto had already come across several road-killed animals along the ES-164 highway in Brazil’s Espírito Santo state. The biologist was on his way to Kaetés private natural heritage reserve (RPPN) in the Atlantic Forest, where he monitors wildlife and roadkill.
Then he spotted the lifeless body of a primate on the pavement. It was a buffy-headed marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps), a species listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list. An estimated 2,500 individuals remain in the wild, making it one of the world’s most threatened primates.
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Plans for a 200-room project on an unspoiled beach have pitted developers against the conservationists fighting for smaller-scale schemes to protect the island’s habitat
Visitors to Rocky Point in south-west Tobago are drawn to its sandy beach, fringed by coral reefs and dark rock formations and carpeted with the fruit-bearing trees found on Caribbean coastlines – almonds, sea grapes, coconuts, and the poisonous manchineel. The beach is part of Back Bay, a 500-metre swathe of land, and trekking through its undulating terrain, thickly covered in bush and shrubs, feels akin to walking through a rainforest.
But this still relatively unspoiled location is at the centre of a struggle between two opposing interests – those who see large-scale development as the most profitable path and those who believe smaller, incremental developments owned by the community would be best.
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As archaeologists find treasure trove along new floodplain, conservationists say another Nova Kakhovka would be ecocide
On a warm September day, a group of underwater archaeologists and researchers were boiling water for tea on their campfire on the banks of the Dnipro River, tents pitched on the sandy shoreline. They were three weeks into an archaeological expedition of the waters around Khortytsia – a rocky island 12.5km long and 2.5km wide that lies just downstream of the city of Zaporizhzhia, in south-eastern Ukraine.
High above the island, a Shahed drone whined on its way. A Ukrainian interceptor, and small-arms fire from the ground, tried, unsuccessfully, to bring it down. The archaeologists ignored it. This is life as normal, 28 miles (45km) from the combat zone in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Almost a third of global greenhouse gas emissions are connected to food production. Does where you buy your fruit and vegetables still matter?
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Food miles – the distance between farm, factory and plate – gained prominence in the early 2000s. The idea was that longer, more complex supply chains caused higher emissions than food sourced closer to home. The simple solution? Buy locally grown and shop nearby.
The intervening decades have underlined other environmental concerns with the modern food system, from the emissions associated with animal agriculture to the problems of food and packaging waste.
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The strongest El Niño recorded is expected to bring a cascade of hazards to a state still facing wildfire and heat risks, while budget cuts have weakened disaster response agencies
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Before this year, the US National Weather Service had never issued a September coastal flood advisory for the San Francisco Bay Area. In the past month, it has had to issue two.
As flood water swallowed intersections and eroded beaches up and down the California coast last week, scientists and emergency managers warned that this is just an early signal of a coming tumultuous winter as an already exceptional El Niño continues to strengthen. It’s been called everything from “super” to “Godzilla”, as forecasters hammer home the message that conditions brewing in the Pacific Ocean could soon climb off the charts, and fuel extreme weather around the world.
Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say
Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey
To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark
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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.
Antipsihotici se koriste za liječenje shizofrenije, kao i bipolarnog poremećaja i velikog depresivnog poremećaja. Međutim, ti lijekovi mogu biti povezani s hiponatremijom, ozbiljnim smanjenjem razine natrija u krvi. Iako se sugerira da su antipsihotici druge generacije povezani s manjim rizikom od hiponatremije u usporedbi s antipsihoticima prve generacije, ostaje nejasno razlikuje li se taj rizik među pojedinim lijekovima druge generacije.
Nedavna studija ispitala je kako unos hrane, posebno hrane bogate šećerom, utječe na dinamiku crijevnog mikrobioma praćenjem 9.419 obroka koje su konzumirali pacijenti koji su podvrgnuti transplantaciji hematopoetskih stanica (HCT) i analizom naknadnih promjena mikrobioma. Znanstvenici su otkrili da je veći unos šećera tijekom izloženosti antibioticima širokog spektra povezan s većim poremećajem crijevne mikroflore, dok su eksperimenti na miševima podržali uzročnu interakciju između šećera i antibiotika.
Epidemiološke studije povezuju izloženost svjetlu noću (LAN), rad u smjenama, kronični jet lag (CJL) i mutacije ključnih gena biološkog sata s povećanim rizikom od raka i njegovim agresivnim širenjem, osobito kod raka dojke i kolorektalnog karcinoma.
Prednosti cjepiva protiv HPV-a mogle bi nadilaziti zaštitu od raka, naime, nova studija je pokazala da su žene cijepljene protiv HPV-a imale manju vjerojatnost za pojavu nekoliko komplikacija u trudnoći i pri porodu, posebice prijevremenog poroda.
Osobe s epilepsijom koje koriste određene metode hormonalne kontracepcije mogu biti izložene riziku od smanjene djelotvornosti kontracepcije zbog interakcija s određenim lijekovima protiv epileptičkih napadaja, pokazuje nova studija.
Nova studija otkriva da upala crijeva može promijeniti način na koji crijevne bakterije razgrađuju hranu - moguće izazivajući imunološke reakcije na hranu koja je prije bila prihvatljiva za jelo. Smatra se, da rezultati mogu pomoći objasniti zašto toliko ljudi s upalnom bolešću crijeva (IBD) loše reagira na hranu poput mliječnih proizvoda ili glutena, čak i u remisiji.
U izravnom usporednom ispitivanju istraživalo se može li promjena prehrane preoblikovati crijevni mikrobiom i utjecati na dva ključna cilja liječenja dijabetesa tipa 2. Naime, znanstvenici su usporedili terapijsku učinkovitost intervencije prehranom bogatom vlaknima sa standardnom monoterapijom metforminom u liječenju odraslih osoba s dijabetesom i pretilošću.
Nova studija koju su vodili znanstvenici Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Pittsburghu otkriva da se odrasli s poremećajem pažnje s hiperaktivnošću (ADHD) suočavaju sa značajno većim rizikom od razvoja demencije ili blagog kognitivnog oštećenja kasnije u životu.
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.