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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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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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Some of deaths came from falling trees as nearly a million people are without power and rain and flooding remain 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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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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Lockerbrook, Derbyshire: Last week they were here, now they are not. Yet the details of their epic migration are still a mystery to us
The sudden absence of something, even though you know it’s coming, can dent the heart a little. The Japanese, inevitably, have a phrase for it: mono no aware, the pathos of things – and by things, in this case, I mean house martins.
Last week I had stood in the same spot, looking across the same valley. The weather then was much the same as it was today, low‑angled sunlight through patchy cloud lighting up the yellowing birch leaves and bronzing moors on the north-eastern slopes of Kinder Scout. It had picked out the spread wings of a buzzard a little below my eyeline, along with a haze of large insects, which in fact, I quickly realised, were house martins.
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Exclusive: Former Brazilian environment minister warns of destruction as far-right scion favourite to become president
The former Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva has said that if Flávio Bolsonaro becomes president he will seek to finish the “perverse project” of rampant rainforest destruction initiated by his jailed far-right father.
The Amazon was thrown into chaos during Jair Bolsonaro’s 2019-2022 presidency, when Brazil’s environment and Indigenous protection agencies were gutted and environmental criminals ran riot, causing surges in deforestation and violence.
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Marsala on island’s west coast badly affected after powerful storm approached from Mediterranean
Two tornadoes have struck the coastal town of Marsala in western Sicily, injuring dozens of people, damaging buildings including a school, and overturning cars.
A series of videos began to circulate on Friday morning showing two waterspouts approaching the Sicilian town from the sea as people braced for their arrival.
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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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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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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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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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
