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Draft Motion for a Resolution prepared for the EU Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, March 2016
Draft Motion prepared by Rapporteurs Pavel Poc (Socialists and Democrats Group), Kateřina Konečná on behalf of the European United Left and Nordic Green Left group, Bas Eickhout of the Greens / European Free Alliance Group, Piernicola Pedicini of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group, Mark Demesmaeker, Sirpa Pietikäinen and Frédérique Ries. This draft Motion was carried forward for the vote in a Parliamentary Plenary Session in April 2016.
Teenagers Eva Wishart and Emily Smith launch project to breed and release 250 of the tiny animals by September
Children in Devon are being invited to become “citizen captive breeders”, rearing harvest mice at home for release into the wild to help revive endangered nature.
Wild Pets, a new conservation project launched by two 14-year-old friends, is seeking 20 Devon-based children to rear hundreds of mice after the duo’s own successful restoration efforts.
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‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed
Scientists who believe technology will largely solve the problems caused by the climate crisis are less likely to engage in civic action on the issue, according to a study.
The report from the London School of Economics found they are 23% less likelyto sign petitions or take part in protests than peers who doubt that technology is the answer. They are also 18% less likely to make high-impact lifestyle changes, from reducing flights to changing to a vegan or vegetarian diet.
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Climate reporters Jonathan Watts and Gabrielle Canon will be online from 4pm BST (11am EDT) today to answer your El Niño questions.
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This year’s huge El Niño is causing climate chaos around the world. Temperate records have already been broken, with extreme heat reported from western Europe to California. Meanwhile, Bangkok is suffering massive flooding and the weather phenomenon is projected to cause a further 450,000 deaths globally by February.
Jonathan Watts, the Guardian’s global environment writer along with extreme weather reporter Gabrielle Canon will be online from 4pm on Wednesday to answer your questions on the unfolding crisis.
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Research has shown that colourful and patterned species are the subject of more studies, and receive more conservation funding
Large and beautiful butterflies attract far more attention than species that are smaller and dull. Now a new study has shown that this bias towards beauty results in the boring butterflies being overlooked in conservation programmes.
To understand the link between beauty and conservation, researchers surveyed more than 21,000 people from more than 100 countries, asking them to look at photos of European butterflies and rate their beauty on a scale of 1 to 10 based on their first impression. The results, which are published in Current Biology, reveal that larger more colourful and patterned butterflies, like the yellow swallowtail, were consistently rated more attractive than the smaller, less conspicuous brownish species, such as the alpine grayling. That bias also extended into scientific research, with more studies on attractive species, and more funding and resource going into conservation of showier species.
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Allendale, Northumberland: On a hot autumn day, I see rosemary beetles here for the first time. This could be a problem for many thriving plants
This year there have been several firsts in my garden: old lady, vestal and blood-vein moths attracted to the light trap; hummingbird hawk-moths, normally occasional, feeding summer-long from verbena and buddleia; and it’s a painted lady year – a once-a-decade event, these high-flying insects migrating from Africa through successive generations. Southerly winds and heatwaves have added to the species visiting my North Pennine garden.
Now, in a herb bed, I spot something less welcome. Among the resinous leaves of rosemary is a gleaming beetle, its elytra striped in purple and green, scintillating like lustreware. It’s not something I’ve seen before, but I immediately know what it means. Rosemary beetle, Chrysolina americana, is a Mediterranean species with no natural predators in the UK. It is shimmering and beautiful – but can reduce plants of the Lamiaceae family to bare sticks and cause them to die back. This includes my favourites: lavender, sage, thyme – and rosemary.
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Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
Drax’s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all flights out of Gatwick airport each year by burning 4.9m tonnes of wood annually, an analysis has shown.
Campaigners say this would make it “one of the dirtiest datacentres out there”.
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Prime minister tells delegates in Tuvalu and Fiji that ‘super El Niño’ brewing in the Pacific shows climate change is ‘here right now’
Anthony Albanese has warned Australia faces a hazardous summer, likely including floods, cyclones and extreme heat, due to the immediate threat of climate breakdown and a rising “super El Niño”.
Speaking alongside national leaders at a climate summit in Fiji, the prime minister said the expected nasty summer and the demonstrated impact on Pacific island countries – including low-lying Tuvalu – showed the world could not afford to let the goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C “just slip from our grasp”.
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Former ABC presenter, who died aged 70 after a cancer diagnosis, kept an infant flying fox tucked under his shirt
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“There’s a small, furry animal, wrapped up in a handkerchief, keeping warm inside my shirt.”
So begins a 1989 documentary featuring the late ABC broadcaster Richard Morecroft, one of Australia’s most celebrated news anchors. But Morecroft had another deep passion – for wildlife rescuing and advocacy.
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The country’s far-right president is courting billionaire investors by removing a block on foreign ownership of land and natural resources
On 19 September, Marta Sahores, an 84-year-old chemistry professor and activist who has mobilised against mega-mining projects for more than two decades, took to the streets in Argentina. Alongside workers, retirees, students, Indigenous groups and human rights organisations, Sahores was there to protest against the country’s far-right president, Javier Milei. During the marcha de la bronca – the “march of anger” – protesters held signs reading, among other rallying cries, “The land is not for sale”.
Marching in Esquel, a town nestled in the foothills of the Andes in Chubut province, she also held up a sign defending the country’s water resources against what she called the government’s “handover” to investors.
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My student house in Manchester had several thousand other occupants. Despite pest controllers regularly dousing the property, the glossy, greasy, relentless insects marched onwards, endlessly reproducing
‘You do know about the cockroaches?” I’ve forgotten most things people said to me in the 80s, but never that. It was said by one of the occupants of the student house in Longsight, Manchester, that I had signed up to live in the following year. When the landlord had shown me and my future housemates the property, the tenants had been out. He told us they were third years doing their finals and must not be disturbed under any circumstances. (What can I say? We were gullible back then.) Days before summer term ended though, I’d knocked on the door to show a friend where I’d be living. Instead, I learned that the house was infested.
The weird thing is, we moved in anyway. In truth, although I understood this was very bad news, I didn’t quite realise what a cockroach was. There was no internet, so I would have had to go to a library to know what I know now: their march, their canter, their crunch if you step on one. Their soft, sweet, sour smell (uric acid which they store in their fat, apparently). Sometimes, in the back of a shop, or a restaurant loo, I catch that scent and I know what it is.
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Nedavno objavljena studija sugerira da mlađe žene u postmenopauzi kojima je izvršena procijena na krhkost kostiju i žene s visokim rizikom od osteoporoze i prijeloma zbog krhkosti kostiju mogu konzumirati manje kalcija nego što se preporuča.
Od 2012. godine, 6. listopada se obilježava Svjetski dan cerebralne paralize. Radi se o inicijativi koja, na globalnoj razini, različitim aktivnostima nastoji podići svijest o cerebralnoj paralizi, životima osoba koje s njom žive te izazovima s kojima se suočavaju one i njihove obitelji. Ovaj dan prilika je za podsjećanje da cerebralna paraliza nije samo medicinska dijagnoza, već stanje koje kroz cijeli život može utjecati na kretanje, komunikaciju, samostalnost, obrazovanje, rad, zdravlje i sudjelovanje u društvu. Naime, potrebno je kontinuirano raditi na tome da osoba s cerebralnom paralizom ne bude definirana svojim ograničenjima, nego prepoznata kroz svoje sposobnosti, interese, prava i osobne ciljeve.
Jednostavan test urina koji su osmislili istraživači sa Stanford Medicine i VA Palo Alto Health Care System može dijagnosticirati ljude s rakom mokraćnog mjehura preciznije od trenutnih standardnih metoda. Test također omogućuje liječnicima ne samo da procijene odgovor raka na liječenje, već i da predvide hoće li imunoterapija ili kemoterapija vjerojatno biti najučinkovitiji za svakog pacijenta.
Kolorektalni karcinom jedan je od najčešćih karcinoma u svijetu, a do polovice pacijenata razvije metastaze na jetri tijekom bolesti. Za te pacijente operacija, ponekad u kombinaciji s lokalnim ablativnim liječenjem, glavna je potencijalno kurativna opcija. Međutim, rizik od recidiva raka ostaje visok.
Izgleda da svakodnevno konzumiranje oraha utječe na raspoloženje, uz mjerljive promjene u metabolitima povezanim sa serotoninom i onima koji potječu iz crijeva, pokazuje nova studija.
Putem procesa poznatog kao autofagija, stanice smještaju deformirane proteine i drugi stanični otpad u biološke spremnike kako bi ih razgradile na njihove molekularne građevne jedinice. Autofagija služi sprječavanju nakupljanja otpadnih tvari koje uzrokuju oštećenje stanica. Smanjenje učinkovitosti ovog procesa stanične reciklaže smatra se jednim od obilježja starenja te se povezuje s mnogim bolestima povezanima s dobi, uključujući rak, kardiovaskularne bolesti, dijabetes i neurodegeneraciju.
Svaka dodatna šetnja do škole, igra nogometa u parku ili odlazak u trgovinu mogli bi imati veći utjecaj na mentalno zdravlje adolescenata nego što se prvotno mislilo, pokazalo je novo istraživanje koje je pratilo tisuće adolescenata u SAD-u.
Nova studija je pokazala da su abnormalne razine vitamina B12 na oba kraja spektra povezane s prijelomima kosti nakon 50. godine života, što sugerira da je taj odnos složeniji od samog nedostatka.
Nedavna studija istraživala je povezanost između crijevne mikrobiote, promjena metabolizma stolice i raka jednjaka korištenjem naprednih metabolomskih pristupa i sekvenciranja gena 16S ribosomske RNA (rRNA). Znanstvenici su otkrili karakteristične obrasce crijevne mikrobiote i stotine promijenjenih metabolita u stolici kod osoba s rakom jednjaka, pri čemu se metabolizam lipida ističe kao ključni potpis.
Australski znanstvenici ispituju nove kombinacije antibiotika za liječenje uporne bakterijske vaginoze, nakon što su došli do važnog otkrića da se to stanje prenosi spolnim putem. Bakterijska vaginoza najčešće je vaginalno oboljenje kod žena reproduktivne dobi, a uzrokovano je gubitkom zdravih vaginalnih bakterija i prekomjernim rastom drugih bakterija, što narušava prirodnu ravnotežu vaginalnog mikrobioma.
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.
