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Daniela Lučić izvještava o tragičnom događaju uoči velike proslave u Jelsi.
Four-year study warns destabilised marine food webs could jeopardise food security by 2050
Warming seas around the UK and the wider north-east Atlantic could destabilise marine food webs, weaken ocean health and jeopardise food security by 2050, according to a four-year study.
Scientists who projected the impact of climate breakdown on four key groups of marine life crucial to maintaining ocean ecosystems in the region said their results challenged assumptions that in middle latitudes, such as the UK, marine biodiversity was likely to increase across the board.
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Events that deliver about half of global rainfall are getting shorter but more intense, with wide-ranging implications
The world’s wettest rainstorms produce about half of the global annual rainfall. Now a study shows that these intense downpours have become shorter in duration and fewer in number, compressing the same amount of rain into quicker and more extreme events, with implications for flood and drought risk.
Chiyuan Miao and colleagues from Beijing Normal University in China analysed daily measurements between 1980 and 2022 from more than 19,000 rain gauges around the world. They found that an average of about half of the world’s rainfall fell during about nine multi-day storms, delivered over a cumulative time of about 28 days.
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We were promised a panacea for the climate crisis and a way to save our food system. So why is nobody firing up the chicken vats? I went to find out
On 5 August 2013, a man and a woman ate a burger. Not just any burger: a world-historic burger, made from cattle cells grown in a laboratory by Mark Post, a professor of vascular physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The burger had taken two years to produce and cost €250,000 (about £210,000 at the time), money furnished by the Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Now it was being tasted in public for the first time at Riverside Studios in London, at an event attended by 200 members of the press and livestreamed to thousands.
To make this particular burger, Post had extracted stem cells from the shoulder muscle of a living cow, then cultivated them in plastic containers filled with a nutrient-rich supplement called foetal bovine serum, which is derived from cow foetuses. The cells eventually became 20,000 strands of tissue, which in turn became a single 140g patty. Post believed that beef produced this way had the potential to dramatically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and slow the climate crisis. Raising cattle for consumption requires massive amounts of land and water – and massive amounts of feed grown at a high environmental cost. He projected that global demand for meat would soon outstrip our ability to produce it the old-fashioned way, at which point our food systems would become unsustainable. But that didn’t have to mean a mass recalibration of our consumption habits or a global shift away from red meat. Post and his team had found another way.
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Liverpool: Their summer flowers provide the name and the fame, but this species is arguably at its best now
Beech mast crunches underfoot, and the occasional conker catches the sunlight, tiny beacons leading me to Camp Hill, south Liverpool, with its distant views over the Mersey estuary. Goldfinches erupt from desiccated knapweed, and a flock of pink-footed geese fly overhead. For once, the birds are not my goal, but a tree: the tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera).
Every autumn, the Camp Hill tulip tree flaunts its flamboyant presence: the Lady Gaga of the parkland. Named because its flowers resemble a tulip flower, and its leaves a tulip silhouette, few can resist its tulle lace canopy of butter-gold leaves. The luminescence is enhanced by the sheen of its leaf cuticles, and the fissured trunk adds yet more sensory impact. Yet this year there is a strangeness: instead of the golden monotone you would expect of this moment, there is a messy mix of different shades. Might the summer drought have disrupted the pigment battle between anthocyanins and carotenoids?
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Ministers urged to go further than proposed cut to 110 decibels to ease acute stress on birds and others animals
Campaigners are calling on the UK government to protect the welfare of wild animals by cutting the maximum noise level of fireworks sold to the public from 120 to 90 decibels.
The Center for Wild Animal Welfare (CWAW) has said lowering the limit to 90dB – which is about one-eighth of the loudness of 120dB – would help to protect millions of wild animals from acute stress by reducing the area over which a firework disturbs surrounding wildlife.
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British Veterinary Association president tells MPs surge in cases putting farmers under severe pressure and stress
The worst bluetongue season on record has been a major animal welfare crisis in Great Britain, MPs have been told, putting farmers under “severe emotional stress”.
Bluetongue, a viral disease that affects sheep, cattle and goats, can cause fever, lesions, stillbirths and death. The tongue may go blue and protrude from the mouth.
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Researchers find the birds’ guano feeds algal blooms that absorb significantly more solar energy
Penguin poo is making the Antarctic snow melt faster, a study shows. As temperatures rise, penguins are waddling closer to the south pole, with potential for this previously unrecognised phenomenon to affect a wider area.
Snow algae are tiny single-celled plants that make a home in some of the coldest places on Earth. When nutrients are scarce, the algae produces red pigments to protect itself from the sun and slow growth.
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We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors
This week, from 2023: A year ago, Germany’s vice-chancellor was one of the country’s best-liked public figures. Then came the tabloid-driven backlash. Now he has to win the argument all over again
By Philip Oltermann. Read by Sam Peter Jackson
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With globe-spanning artists – including Charlotte Church doing angry electropop – the Flow project is hoping to make an impact at this month’s Cop31
Amid tense and long-winded negotiations, and with the future of the planet at stake, emotions can often run high at Cop climate summits. But last year, when the annual conference arrived in Brazil, one UN official was unexpectedly moved to tears by five women singing about the power of water.
“She gave me a massive hug after the event and said, ‘We need to bring music into Cop,’” says Nikita Llerena, the project manager for Flow, a music collective that’s hoping to bring art to the centre of the climate movement. What started as a handful of musicians meeting over Zoom last year has grown into a full-length album that unites female artists from around the world, including Charlotte Church, Maxine Peake and Nadine Shah. This month, members of the collective will return for Cop31, in Turkey, where they have been promoted to a slot at Global Cultural Action’s opening event.
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For the first time since 1937, no open permits to hunt ruffed grouse in Ohio have been issued due to falling numbers
Every November, hundreds of hunters descend on four designated wilderness areas in southern Ohio in pursuit of the elusive ruffed grouse.
But not this year.
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Kliničko ispitivanje u trajanju od 16 tjedana otkriva potencijalno korisne promjene u inzulinskim odgovorima u regijama mozga povezanim s pamćenjem, nakon svakodnevne konzumacije neslanog, pečenog kikirikija, nudeći nove tragove o tome kako prehrana može utjecati na kognitivno zdravlje.
Nova studija provedena u SAD-u rasvjetljava ulogu majčinog mlijeka u poticanju razvoja crijeva i sprječavanju hiperbilirubinemije – stanja u kojem se bilirubin, otpadni produkt razgradnje crvenih krvnih stanica, nakuplja u krvi i uzrokuje žutu boju kože i očiju, poznatu kao žutica.
Slušne halucinacije – ili slušanje glasova koje drugi ne čuju – pogađaju više od 70% osoba sa shizofrenijom. Unatoč liječenju antipsihoticima, otprilike 40% i dalje ima trajne halucinacije. Za ove pacijente hitno su potrebni novi pristupi liječenju.
Nova studija je otkrila da žene koje su češće jele hranu s visokim udjelom šećera imaju veći rizik od raka dojke, dok ni ukupni šećer u prehrani ni konzumacija voća nisu pokazali statistički značajnu povezanost. Voće je činilo oko 43% ukupnog šećera u prehrani, a prosječni unos šećera bio je 44 grama dnevno. Žene koje su konzumirale više od dvije porcije hrane s visokim udjelom šećera tjedno imale su 28% veći rizik od onih koje su jele jednu porciju mjesečno ili manje.
Protein koji sudjeluje u izgradnji zuba mogao bi se jednog dana koristiti kako bi se oštećenim zubima omogućilo da se sami obnove, pokazuju rezultati nove studije provedene u SAD-u.
Od otpornog škroba do staničnih stijenki biljaka, znanstvenici istražuju skrivenu konkurenciju i suradnju među crijevnim bakterijama, postavljajući intrigantna pitanja o tome što se događa s različitim vlaknima nakon što dođu do debelog crijeva.
U nedavno objavljenoj studiji znanstvenici su procijenili učinke konzumacije oraha na imunoglobuline (Ig) i antitijela usmjerena protiv lipoproteina niske gustoće modificiranih malondialdehidom (MDA-LDL). Nakon dvije godine, dugotrajna konzumacija oraha bila je povezana s ukupnim koncentracijama IgG-a u serumu koje su bile približno 6% više nego u kontrolnoj skupini, što upućuje na mogući utjecaj prehrane na cirkulirajuće imunološke biomarkere.
Aorta se često prvenstveno smatra najvećom krvnom žilom u tijelu - izdržljivim kanalom koji dostavlja krv bogatu kisikom iz srca u svaki organ. No, sve više dokaza upućuje na to da je stijenka aorte također aktivno imunološko okruženje. Imunološke stanice koje se nalaze unutar ili su regrutirane u različite dijelove aorte mogu utjecati na to kako se ova žila razvija, prilagođava mehaničkom stresu i postaje osjetljiva na bolesti.
Međunarodna studija izvještava o 60-postotnom preživljenju bez progresije bolesti 10 godina nakon autologne transplantacije koštane srži, pružajući važne dokaze o trajnim pozitivnim kliničkim ishodima i dugoročnoj sigurnosti kod pacijenata liječenih zbog rane, teške sistemske skleroze.
Novo istraživanje pokazuje da osobe s glioblastomom imaju aktivnije trombocite – stanice koje sudjeluju u zgrušavanju krvi. Trombociti također komuniciraju s drugim stanicama i mogu utjecati na imunološku aktivnost. Hiperaktivni trombociti kod osoba s glioblastomom usporavaju djelovanje T-stanica koje se bore protiv raka, što može pridonijeti rastu tumora i napredovanju bolesti.
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.