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Novosti: Ekologija.hr
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Four dead as Isaias weakens to post-tropical cyclone after striking Florida panhandle
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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Despair after 200-year-old ‘grandmother’ tree toppled for Trump’s border wall: ‘It crushes your heart’
Protesters spent months occupying an ancient cottonwood. Then a tense standoff with US border patrol came to a head
A 200-year-old cottonwood tree near the US-Mexico border, known as the “grandmother”, has been destroyed to make way for the construction of Donald Trump’s border wall, despite a months-long effort by protesters trying to save it.
In late July, land defenders began a tree-sit in the ghost town of Lochiel, Arizona, taking turns occupying a platform high in the tree’s canopy. The group remained there for more than 70 days.
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Climate crisis is coming to crush many of world’s best surf breaks, study warns
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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Retrofit schools and consider moving exams to beat extreme heat, says teaching union leader
NEU’s Daniel Kebede says earlier start times and longer summer breaks may be needed to help pupils and teachers
Schools should consider changing start and finish times, reordering holidays and moving exams from the summer months in an effort to adapt to the UK’s increasingly severe heatwaves, according to the leader of the country’s biggest education union.
Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said this summer’s repeated bouts of extreme heat had a devastating impact on teachers and pupils, as classroom temperatures topped 40C and hundreds of thousands of young people were sent home.
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Blooming beautiful! The Tesselaar tulip festival – in pictures
The annual month-long festival takes place at a flower farm in the Victorian town of Silvan when tulips and other springs flowers are at their most vibrant
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Tourism expansion v turtle nests: the dispute dividing communities in one Tobago resort
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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Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies
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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Still wielding a chainsaw at 85: the Australians restoring nature in retirement
For a growing band of older Australians, retirement has become an unlikely second act, spent rewilding mountains, counting sea slugs and coaxing damaged country back to life
When Susan Downes stepped into the hallway of an old farmhouse for sale in York, Western Australia, she felt an oddly certain sense of knowing. “Oh, this is my house,” the retired GP remembers thinking. There was just one problem: it came with 200 hectares.
Widowed and with her children grown, Downes, then in her 60s, was finally able to act on a long-held wish to move to the countryside. She had imagined something modest: an old house with “a little bit of garden and stuff”. Two hundred hectares was rather more than she had in mind, no matter how charming she found the high ceilings. “I thought, the house is lovely, but I can’t possibly do that.”
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‘We cannot accept foxes as part of our landscape’: the plan to save Australia’s threatened wildlife
Draft national strategy accepts the wily invasive species can’t be eradicated but outlines steps to protect native animals most at risk
They dart across playgrounds on dainty paws, sneak into back yard coops to eat suburban chickens and kill more than a million native animals every day.
The European red fox – a wily invasive species – is “one of the most impactful threats” for native mammals, says Sarah Legge, a professor at Charles Darwin University and author of a new draft plan to curb their predation.
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How a South African billionaire is turning a corner of Somerset into ‘one man’s estate’
Koos Bekker’s Newt estate encompasses luxury hotels, pubs and high street business, with local concerns including flooding
When South African billionaire Koos Bekker bought an old country estate in a sleepy corner of Somerset to turn it into a luxury hotel, residents thought it was a sign their area was on the up.
Walking through his peaceful manicured gardens, which feature a maze of apple trees twisted into perfect shapes using the espalier method, it’s easy to feel that all is well in this quiet, picturesque pocket of England.
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Novosti: Cybermed.hr
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Crijevne bakterije mogu pomoći objasniti zašto se bol kod endometrioze razlikuje
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.
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Infekcije su u 2024. godini uzrokovale jedan od osam slučajeva raka u svijetu
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).
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Određene crijevne bakterije mogu pojačati upalne reakcije na cjepiva
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.
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Rizik od hiponatremije razlikuje se među pojedinim antipsihoticima druge generacije
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.
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Hrana bogata šećerom može pogoršati poremećaje crijeva povezane s antibioticima
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.
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Poremećeni cirkadijalni ritmovi mogu utjecati na imunološki odgovor na tumor i širenje raka
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.
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Cijepljenje protiv HPV-a povezano s manjim rizikom od komplikacija u trudnoći
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.
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Lijekovi protiv epilepsije mogu smanjiti djelotvornost hormonalnih kontraceptiva
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.
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Upala crijeva može objasniti osjetljivost na hranu kod pacijenata s upalnom bolešću crijeva
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.
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Prehrana bogata vlaknima nadmašila metformin u pogledu razine šećera u krvi i tjelesne težine
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.
Novosti: Biologija.com
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Candid cameras catch a glimpse of rare wildlife
Deep in the mountains of Palawan, Conservation International scientists are capturing what few people ever see: the secret lives of the Philippines’ rarest species.
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How a family farm in the Amazon landed on the world’s best menu
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.
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‘A profound loss’: Conservation world mourns Jane Goodall
“Jane Goodall forever changed how people think about, interact with and care for the natural world,” said Daniela Raik, interim CEO of Conservation International.
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Conservation International expert earns global recognition on TIME100 Next
Conservation International’s Neil Vora was selected for TIME’s Next 100 list — alongside other rising leaders reshaping culture, science and society.
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What on Earth is ‘coral bleaching’?
Climate change is happening. And it’s placing the world’s reefs in peril. What can be done?
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Landmark high seas treaty crosses finish line
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.
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News spotlight: Deforestation linked to dramatic decline in Amazon rainfall
The Amazon rainforest, known for lush green canopies and an abundance of freshwater, is drying out — and deforestation is largely to blame.
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5 ways the ocean keeps our climate in check
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.
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Off Mexico’s coast, divers nab biggest ‘ghost’ yet
In a grueling and delicate dance, a team led by Conservation International removes a massive undersea killer.
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Protect wildlife: Buy a print
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.