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Simon Stiell makes opening address at summit in Turkey, where talks are under way about speeding up shift to electrification
A global fossil fuel price crisis is “spreading inflation like a cancer” around the planet, the UN’s climate chief, Simon Stiell, told the opening plenary of critical UN climate talks in Turkey.
Stiell joined Cop31 hosts Turkey and Australia, which is leading the negotiations, in promoting renewable energy and a new electrification goal as an optimistic alternative to a planet still tied to oil, coal and gas.
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Established in UK cities for decades and much loved for their green plumage, the Himalayan birds have been recast as an ecological threat. But is the idea of invasive species itself a problem?
Before we saw a single parakeet, we heard them: a disembodied static that grew louder as we approached Hither Green cemetery in south-east London. It was an early evening in late June, and we had come to witness an invasion. By the time my friend and I reached the cemetery’s western edge, the clamour was all-encompassing. We hopped the fence and picked our way through the gravestones. Above us now were the birds themselves, their kryptonite-green plumage, scab-red beaks, pearly black collars and trailing tail feathers unmistakable: Psittacula krameri, the ring-necked parakeet.
Hither Green cemetery hosts one of the city’s largest roosts. Every day at dusk, a sizeable chunk of London’s feral parakeet population returns here, to a specific line of poplars. They like to spend the night in the company of their own kind. We watched them come first in ones and twos, and then in larger chirrupping squadrons. Hundreds of them, and then thousands. At maximum capacity, the trees fizzed. Here was a pandemonium, a parakeet concourse. It gave the impression of community, greeting and conversation. “This,” my friend said, “would make a great cheap first date.”
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Skagway’s 1,100 permanent residents are caught between a boom time – when the ships bring more than a million tourists – and a lull in winter
October comes to the small Alaska coastal town of Skagway like a sigh. The shops that were bustling throughout the crazed tourist season are reducing their opening hours or beginning to close. The hordes of employees sleeping in overcrowded bunkhouses are leaving or have left.
The crowds of cruise passengers who have filled the streets since April, wearing lanyards emblazoned with the names of their ships, have dwindled to a trickle. Soon, they will all be gone. Snow is visible on the nearby mountains.
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However, authors of a comprehensive assessment to be presented at Cop31 warn talk of a global turnaround premature
Soaring oil and gas prices following the war in Iran have encouraged people to look beyond fossil fuels, leading to an easing of climate-damaging carbon emissions this year.
Carbon dioxide from oil, gas and coal is forecast to flatline for 2026, based on data from the year so far, according to a comprehensive assessment by scientists. Emissions from burning oil alone will drop by 2% as drivers economise on fuel use and flock to electric vehicles instead.
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Increased heat will supercharge extreme weather events, warns UN agency as Cop31 climate summit begins
Heat is accumulating in Earth’s systems at an accelerating rate, the UN’s weather agency has reported as the Cop31 climate change summit begins in Turkey, with 2026 on track to be one of the four warmest years on record.
The imbalance between incoming energy from the sun and energy leaving Earth reached its highest level since monitoring began, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its State of the Global Climate update.
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Prime minister says he’s committed to meeting climate targets, but some believe his actions suggest otherwise
Andy Burnham insists he is committed to the green transition, but his MPs worry that in decision after decision, he is showing that other priorities come first.
“Our changing climate is a major concern for many Britons, not least because we have just emerged from our hottest summer on record,” the prime minister wrote in the Guardian in September.
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He went to Saudi Arabia to perform the sacred hajj pilgrimage – then the heat came. This is Zirrar Ali’s story
Location: Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Disaster: Heatwave, 2024
After a transformative trip to Iran and one of its mosques, Zirrar started believing in God and writing about the soul of travel. Six years later, Zirrar and his elderly father were participating in the sacred five-day Muslim pilgrimage, the Hajj, when temperatures soared over 51°C. Temperature increases from climate change have made Hajj pilgrimages that happen in the summer, and even during the previously safer spring months, more dangerous.
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Delegates from more than 190 countries are gathering in Turkey for climate talks, but the US will be absent
As the planet faces unprecedented human-caused global heating, heads of government are meeting for the next fortnight for the latest round of climate talks. We ask why it matters and what is likely to be achieved.
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High-stakes talks involving 190 countries begin on Monday as world grapples with El Niño supercharged by fossil fuels
The Cop31 summit must produce progress, “a tangible outcome... that people can see is real”, its host has said as scores of world leaders and representatives of close to 190 countries gather in Turkey for the UN climate talks.
The high-stakes meeting begins on Monday, as countries around the world grapple with the strongest El Niño weather system on record, supercharged by fossil fuels, which is set to take hundreds of thousands of lives and cause damage costing trillions of dollars.
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What are the relationships and dominant interests in play, as the summit kicks off after a bitter row over its hosting?
Hosting Cop was a key pledge from Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese in 2021, while in opposition, before his successful election campaign. But arcane rules meant the country had to wait its turn to bid and was then embroiled in an angry row with Turkey over the hosting. The final compromise put Australia in charge of the negotiations which will take place in the Turkish city of Antalya. The bitter taste left by the row lingers and Australia has seemed to some a rather half-hearted host. The country’s media has been much quieter on Cop than previous host countries, and although Albanese will speak at the opening of the leaders’ segment, he is unlikely to stay long.
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Majčino mlijeko sadrži niz hranjivih tvari i zaštitnih čimbenika, uključujući proteine, ugljikohidrate, lipide, antitijela, lizozim, laktoferin i majčine imunološke stanice. Urea je još jedna komponenta, ali znanstvenici znaju relativno malo o tome kako se njezine razine mijenjaju tijekom dojenja ili kako djeluje s bakterijama u crijevima dojenčeta. Većina studija o urei umjesto toga ispitivala je njezinu prisutnost u krvi, urinu, slini i znoju.
Žene koje konzumiraju četiri ili više alkoholnih pića u jednoj prilici jednom mjesečno ili češće imaju povećane šanse za uznapredovalu fibrozu jetre, sugerira nova studija. Steatotična bolest jetre (SLD) - ranije poznata kao bolest masne jetre - uključuje nekoliko stanja jetre povezanih s konzumacijom alkohola i/ili metaboličkom disfunkcijom.
Za pacijente sa srčanim udarom koji razviju kardiogeni šok - najozbiljniju komplikaciju srčanog udara - kangrelor, potentan intravenski razrjeđivač krvi, rezultirao je boljim oporavkom srčane funkcije u usporedbi s oralnom antitrombocitnom terapijom.
Znanstvenici su razvili terapiju koja "ponovno budi" stanice srčanog mišića, potičući ih na diobu i sudjelovanje u popravku oštećenog mišićnog tkiva. U studiji provedenoj na miševima, nakon srčanog udara, ovaj je postupak rezultirao snažnijim otkucajima srca i povećanjem količine krvi koju srce ispumpava pri svakom otkucaju za oko 10% u usporedbi s miševima koji su primili lažnu terapiju. Iako ovo ne predstavlja potpuno izlječenje, čak su i manja poboljšanja srčane funkcije povezana sa smanjenom smrtnošću pacijenata i boljom sposobnošću obavljanja svakodnevnih aktivnosti.
Vrsta stanične terapije, izvorno razvijena za liječenje raka, pokazuje potencijal kao mogući oblik liječenja za osobe s lupusom koji je teško suzbiti, navodi se u novoj studiji. Ovaj pristup, poznat kao terapija T-stanicama s himernim antigenskim receptorom (CAR T-stanice), sve se više istražuje u kontekstu liječenja sistemskog eritemskog lupusa (SEL).
Svakodnevni plastični proizvodi, uključujući boce za vodu, jednokratne čaše i ambalažu, mogu se s vremenom razgraditi na sitne fragmente poznate kao nanoplastika. Ove čestice su nevidljive golim okom i mogu dospjeti u zrak, što izaziva zabrinutost zbog njihovog potencijala da dopru duboko u pluća prilikom udisanja.
Ponavljajući akutni rinosinusitis (RARS) medicinski je izraz za četiri ili više infekcija sinusa u godini. U nedavnom znanstvenom pregledu, otkriveno je da 29%-57% odraslih osoba s tim stanjem također imalo alergijski rinitis, koji se obično naziva peludna groznica.
Novo istraživanje rasvjetljava kako se promjene povezane s različitim neurodegenerativnim bolestima mogu preklapati u mozgu – te kako se to preklapanje može razlikovati između žena i muškaraca. Pokazalo se, da žene, osobito one s demencijom povezanom s Parkinsonovom bolešću, imaju veću učestalost amiloidne patologije karakteristične za Alzheimerovu bolest.
Može li jednostavna promjena u prehrani pomoći osobama koje pate od zatvora? Izgleda da konzumacija kivija može pomoći u liječenju funkcionalnog zatvora te sindroma iritabilnog crijeva s prevladavajućim zatvorom, pokazuje nova studija.
Četrdeset i peta je nova šezdeseta – barem kada je riječ o kolonoskopijama. Možda to nije događaj kojem se veselite, ali mogao bi vam spasiti život. Prema podacima Cancer Research Institute, jedan od pet slučajeva kolorektalnog karcinoma dijagnosticira se kod pacijenata mlađih od 55 godina, što znači da je bolest, koja se nekada smatrala bolešću starijih osoba, postala jedna od onih čija učestalost najbrže raste među mladima.
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.
