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Emissions from exported oil would not count against carbon budget, insiders say – reasoning likely to draw dismay from climate campaigners
The giant Rosebank oilfield can be approved without breaching the UK’s emission targets, according to government insiders, in a boost to those in the cabinet who are pushing for it to be given the go-ahead.
The Guardian revealed last week that Miatta Fahnbulleh, the energy secretary, was leaning towards rejecting the project, but her position has put her at loggerheads with cabinet colleagues, including the chancellor, John Healey, who are lobbying for an approval.
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Scientists uncover ancient hills and swamps that disappeared as sea levels rose across northern Adriatic
Venice is famed for being a floating city, but research shows the land it sits on once lay many miles inland. Dramatic changes in sea level over 10,000 years have reshaped the northern Adriatic coastline, with much of the land that our ancestors roamed now lying beneath the waves.
Samuele Ongaro, at the University of Southampton, and colleagues combined seismic data with sedimentary cores from the coastal basins of northern Italy, Slovenia and northern Croatia to model changes in sea level across the region and reconstruct past landscapes over the past 10,000 years.
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The radical Stern report showed that a low-carbon future is also good economics. But it seems that capitalism needs a reminder
Saving the only planet we have makes good economic sense. There is, after all, no money to be made on a dead Earth. There may be costs involved now, but they are worth paying to protect our children from certain destruction.
These propositions seem self-evident now. But two decades ago, mainstream economists had very different ideas. They had proved that the climate crisis would be a mere economic blip, easily absorbed by growing economies and therefore not worth spending money on. In their accounting, they considered ice caps and glaciers functionally worthless, that trees only add to GDP when they are cut down, and that a livable climate shouldn’t even merit a line on a spreadsheet.
Fiona Harvey is an environment editor at the Guardian
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Extreme heat accelerated disappearance of Triglav glacier from mountain revered as a symbol of Slovenian identity
The final ice patch has vanished from Slovenia’s Triglav glacier, the latest Alpine casualty of Europe’s scorching summer.
The once mighty ice mass lost 93% of its surface area between 1983 and 2003, shrinking to cover less than a hectare of overheated rock, but went on to surprise researchers who feared its imminent demise, clinging on to the mountain for two more decades.
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A striking transformation takes place along the coast of Qinqdao in autumn, when a native seepweed turns a brilliant shade of red.
The ‘red beach’ phenemon can be seen in the salt marshes and wetlands on the coast of China’s Shandong province, where the Suaeda glauca plantmatures and absorbs water, changing it from green to crimson between September and November
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Wharram and York, North Yorkshire: It’s the nervy few days before a ceremony that will honour our local waterways, and I have work to do
I visit the source of the tiny stream called the Gypsey Race now and then, drawn by the everyday miracle of its water welling to catch sunlight like a plaything and alchemise it into colours and sparks. Today, though, is different, because I’ve come to ask for something. Something like permission, or approval maybe.
I’ve been helping to organise a gathering of river advocates to co-draft a regional charter of river rights – making explicit our responsibilities towards them. We will be holding a ceremony to blend waters from across Yorkshire to make ink in which the charter will be written. I want to collect water from the Gypsey, but I also want some of its potent reputation. Its course is regarded as auspicious thanks to an extraordinary concentration of nearby prehistoric barrows, cursuses and henges, not to mention England’s tallest standing stone. Local folklore insists that its capricious flow holds the power of prophecy.
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Chris Packham says £24bn earmarked for projects with ‘ludicrously uncertain results’ should be redirected to help lower bills and cut emissions
Campaigners are calling on the chancellor to cut the government’s £24bn spending plans for “fairytale” carbon capture technologies in favour of funding green schemes that can reliably cut emissions and lower energy bills.
The environmentalist Chris Packham is leading an 11th-hour appeal for the Treasury to use this week’s budget to scale back the government’s “exorbitantly expensive” support for carbon capture, which is now more than the planned spending for the US, the EU, Norway and Japan combined.
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My mother was a keen swimmer, and she lived with depression. I wonder if she found the same respite in the water that has helped heal me since she passed away
It was early morning in late September, off the coast of Kaş in Turkey. Watching the slightly choppy sea from a boat, the last thing I felt like doing was embarking on another 5km (3-mile) swim. Mind fog had sapped my energy, and my mood was decidedly Eeyore-like. But as I pulled on my cap and flippers, adjusted my goggles and took the plunge, something shifted.
Head in the water, the knotted feeling in my throat began to loosen. Breathing came properly. There was respite.
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All it took was one or two careless teenage girls giving the vermin a taste of their snacks and they became the most well-fed animals imaginable
I’ve written a fair amount about my boarding school years in Nigeria in the 90s, but never about the rats that accompanied my school experience. Picture it: thousands of girls from across the country, each bearing a suitcase or two of a term’s worth of “provisions” – cornflakes, sugar cubes, powdered milk, hot chocolate powder, and so on. All it took was one or two careless girls giving the rats a taste of the exotic and they became among the most well-fed rats in the country, enjoying a steady stream of delicious teenage-girl snacks.
I will never forget the sight of rats – six or seven deep – congregating at dusk on the scraggly lawn next to my dormitory, like an illegal gathering of political dissidents. They were large (what with their rich diet), thick tails twitching, noses pushed together, damn near whispering. At first, they would scatter when humans approached. Then we had to clap and stomp to get them to shift. Like the proletariat, the rats began to understand their power, and stand their ground. They were no longer pests but now a sort of predator. If this sounds like the beginning of a highbrow horror, that’s how it felt.
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Company imitates reflection of sun from mirrors, prompting pushback from some scientists, environmentalists and California locals
Locals in a rural area of California were recently startled to see dazzlingly bright light shining down from nearby mountains at night, illuminating a swathe of the desert below.
Unbeknown to them, the strange nocturnal illumination was the latest step in a company’s plan to erect thousands of giant mirrors in space to reflect sunlight on to the Earth during night-time.
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Pacijenti s uznapredovalim oblikom raka pluća živjeli su 56 posto dulje bez progresije bolesti kada je lokalna konsolidacijska radioterapija dodana standardnoj terapiji, uključujući kemoterapiju i/ili imunoterapiju, pokazuje nova studija.
Promjena u načinu primjene oksitocina nakon poroda može pomoći u smanjenju postporođajnog krvarenja, sugerira nova studija. Postporođajno krvarenje vodeći je uzrok majčinih bolesti i smrti. Iako se oksitocin široko koristi za pomoć maternici u kontrakciji i smanjenju krvarenja nakon poroda, optimalna doza i protokol primjene i dalje se proučavaju.
Rezultati nedavno objavljene studije sugeriraju da vaginalni mikrobiom može biti povezan s odabranim psihološkim osobinama i lokalnim metaboličkim obrascima. Različiti tipovi stanja vaginalne zajednice (CST) bili su povezani s odgovorom na nagradu, motivacijskim pogonom i inhibicijom ponašanja. Znanstvene analize sugeriraju da metaboliti mogu statistički objasniti neke od ovih povezanosti. Potrebne su veće longitudinalne studije žena kako bi se utvrdilo jesu li ovi obrasci važeći i kako bi se bolje razumjelo kako se vaginalni mikrobiom može povezati s psihološkim zdravljem.
Sarkopenija, značajan gubitak mišića, snage i fizičke funkcije koji dolazi sa starenjem, pogađa do 29% starijih osoba koje žive u zajednici, a još više u bolnici, u domovima za starije i među osobama s multimorbiditetom ili krhkošću.
Pacijenti s prethodno liječenim uznapredovalim karcinomom pluća ne-malih stanica (NSCLC) s mutacijom KRAS G12C živjeli su značajno dulje i imali su poboljšanu kontrolu bolesti kada su liječeni ciljanom terapijom KRAS-a sljedeće generacije divarasibom, pokazuju rezultati nove studije.
Analiza 21 studije pokazala je da su žene u perimenopauzi i postmenopauzi imale značajno veću vjerojatnost simptoma anksioznosti u usporedbi s ženama u premenopauzi, s najvećom vjerojatnošću uočenom tijekom perimenopauze. Ovi rezultati podupiru veću kliničku svijest o simptomima anksioznosti tijekom menopauzalnog prijelaza, ali ne utvrđuju da menopauza uzrokuje anksioznost ili da se simptomi povećavaju kod pojedinih žena tijekom vremena.
Dodavanje abiraterona standardnom liječenju pruža trajnu korist za preživljavanje muškaraca čiji se rak prostate već proširio pri dijagnozi, pojačavajući vrijednost ranog intenziviranja liječenja, pokazuje nova studija.
Režim temeljen na imunoterapiji koji kombinira durvalumab i inhibitor PARP-a, olaparib, pokazao je ohrabrujuće dugoročne ishode preživljavanja za pacijentice s uznapredovalim ili rekurentnim rakom endometrija, tvrdi nova studija.
Rezultati kliničkog ispitivanja pokazali su da su kod gotovo trećine (29,2 posto) pacijenata s uznapredovalim melanomom tumori potpuno nestali nakon primjene TIL terapije (lifileucel) u kombinaciji s inhibitorom imunoloških kontrolnih točaka, pembrolizumabom, kao terapije prve linije. Osim toga, kod otprilike dvije trećine (62,5 posto) pacijenata u istoj skupini došlo je do značajnog smanjenja tumora, pri čemu su mnogi ostvarili snažan i dugotrajan odgovor na kombinirano liječenje.
Eksperimentalno cjepivo pomoglo je imunološkom sustavu da prepozna i odgovori na mutacije koje potiču većinu karcinoma gušterače, pokazuju rezultati nove studije. Gotovo svaki pacijent koji je procijenjen nakon primanja cjepiva razvio je imunološki odgovor protiv mutiranog KRAS-a, gena koji igra glavnu ulogu u raku gušterače.
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.
