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YouGov survey finds support for tree planting and emissions taxes but opposition to air travel and fuel levies
Europeans believe human-made climate change is real, a survey has shown, with most feeling action must be taken soon – as long as they do not have to sacrifice too much to achieve it.
The YouGov poll of six European countries showed between 69% (Germany) and 80% (France) of respondents believed the climate was changing, with few (1%-4%) denying it and 14-20% believing it was changing, but not as a result of human activity.
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This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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From energy prices to datacenters, climate became a cost-of-living issue – and a winning one
Climate-forward Democrats swept into power on Tuesday night as a blue tsunami flipped the Senate, House and several governor’s races. Voters were laser-focused on affordability, and experts said Democrats succeeded in linking cost-of-living concerns with rising energy prices, datacenters and, to some extent, the climate crisis. They may have even created a path for a “new climate politics”.
The results delivered a sharp rebuke of Donald Trump, who started a war with Iran that raised gas pump prices across the country and exposed the fragility of fossil fuels, all while the US oil industry earned $130bn in profits since the war began. Household energy costs soared, driven by various factors including constraints on renewables, climate disasters and a datacenter boom.
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Clophill Lakes, Bedfordshire:Bank vole or wood mouse? On a series of nine-second videos, they’re not so easy to tell apart
Bank vole or wood mouse? That is the question. I’m working my way through a series of nine-second videos from Clophill Lakes nature reserve, taking notes on how many bank voles appear in the clips. Unfortunately, I can’t tell my voles from my mice.
The footage begins at 4.47pm, when wildlife volunteer Stephen Plummer switches on the trail camera in his mostela trap: a wooden box with a drainpipe entrance leading to a scattering of nuts and seeds. Both wood mice and bank voles star in the Clophill Saga – a rodential drama set in deciduous woodland beside old ponds – but I’m struggling to tell the two species apart, especially in the monochrome infrared light. I take notes as they enter: BV, 2BV, WM, BV. Or is it WM? I check the differences between them for the umpteenth time – 216 clips later (at 4.46am), I reckon I’ve got my eye in.
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The move to clean electricity will form the focus of the climate summit, which begins next week in coal-obsessed Turkey. The outlook doesn’t look good
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Holding a climate conference under the presidency of one coal-obsessed country might be regarded as a misfortune for the planet – sharing it between two starts to look provocative. But at this year’s Cop31 UN climate summit in Antalya, coal exporter Australia and coal consumer Turkey will be trying to shift the focus away from dirty fossil fuels and towards clean electricity, with a target on the table to meet 35% of final energy demand from electricity by 2035.
Will they succeed? The geopolitical outlook for Cop31 is worse than for almost any recent “conference of the parties” under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Conflicts in Ukraine, Iran and Gaza are destabilising global alliances, an unpredictable White House is sowing economic uncertainty and AI is threatening to unleash digitised chaos.
‘Bunch of baloney’: calls grow for Cop summit reforms as countries on track to fail nature targets
The Amazon’s canary in the coalmine: what a tropical fish can tell us about climate upheaval
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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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With parts of region served by company in severe drought still, regulators give it six weeks to come up with action plan
Repeated failures by South West Water to tackle leaks are putting customers at higher risks of losing water supplies as parts of the region remain in severe drought, regulators have said.
In a warning to the privatised company that serves 1.8 million people across the south-west of England, the regulators said it had been failing to meet targets to reduce leaks and repair burst pipes for seven years.
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Juneau has little arable land, a short growing season and few farmers – and deep traditions of residents and the land feeding each other
Forty miles north-west of Alaska’s capital, the highway just ends.
At Glacier Highway’s most northern point, the pavement turns to gravel, the gravel widens into a turnaround and the tire tracks curve back the way they came. At the far end, the woods begin, a narrow hiking trail slipping toward the southern end of Berners Bay.
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The BLVD is home to 250 enterprises, from banks, tattoo shops and restaurants to museums and a performing arts centre
Passing through the Mojave desert on State Route 14, going by landscapes Hollywood uses to represent alien planets, a driver might not expect to find a walkable, tree-lined boulevard.
But there are nine beautiful, leafy blocks on West Lancaster Boulevard, a piece of what used to be Highway 14. They were redeveloped as part of a mixed-use urban streetscape in the city of Lancaster, California in 2010.
The BLVD, as it’s been rebranded, is home to 250 public and private enterprises, from banks, tattoo shops and restaurants to museums, a performing arts centre and a public library. City Hall is just a block south.
The city invested $11.5m (£8.5m) to transform a busy thoroughfare into an inviting public space. The three lanes in the centre of the former five-lane road were replaced by a series of tree-lined ramblas – Spanish for “avenue” and “watercourse,” because dry stream beds served as streets in early cities.
The redesign was planned and funded by the city of redevelopment agency. Within four years of completion, it had generated more than $270m in economic output, attracted $130m in investment, created hundreds of jobs and prompted the building or renovation of hundreds of housing units, according to the city.
The revitalisation has also created more intangible benefits, residents say. The city centre the feels like a gathering space, they said — somewhere where they can feel like part of a community.
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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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.
Nova studija pokazala je da pacijenti s Alzheimerovom bolešću s ranim početkom – kod kojih se simptomi javljaju prije 65. godine – imaju opsežnije naslage tau proteina, koji je ključno obilježje ovog stanja, u usporedbi s pacijentima kod kojih se simptomi javljaju nakon 65. godine. Štoviše, tau protein se kod mlađih pacijenata nakuplja više nego dvostruko brže nego kod starijih te se širi po cijelom mozgu.
Terapija kombinacijom triju lijekova može preoblikovati tumorsko mikrookruženje u bolesnika s uznapredovalim rakom želuca te pokazuje obećavajući sigurnosni profil, ukazuju rezultati nove studije. Ova studija pruža detaljan uvid u to kako navedeni lijekovi preoblikuju imunološke stanice u neposrednoj blizini tumora te otkrivaju obećavajuće ciljeve za buduće imunoterapijske pristupe.
Vizualne abnormalnosti nakon upotrebe psihodelika desetljećima se prepoznaju kao poremećaj perzistentne percepcije halucinogena (HPPD), ali ovo stanje se ne dijagnosticira često jer zahtijeva klinički značajnu nelagodu i oštećenje. Najčešća nuspojava nakon primjene psihodelika su svjetlije boje.
Žene s nasljednim stanjem kolesterola, obiteljskom hiperkolesterolemijom, mogu imati nešto veći rizik od razvoja preeklampsije, stanja u trudnoći koje može uzrokovati ozbiljne komplikacije, pokazuje nova studija.
Antihipertenzivni lijekovi se široko propisuju, ali kliničke značajke i genetska predispozicija koja je u osnovi oštećenja jetre koje povremeno uzrokuju ostaju slabo shvaćene.
Imunološki sustav posjeduje snažne stanice koje mogu prepoznati i uništiti rak, no ta sposobnost može postupno slabjeti kada se te stanice nalaze unutar tumora. No, znanstvenici s Medicinskog fakulteta Yong Loo Lin pri Nacionalnom sveučilištu u Singapuru (NUS Medicine) identificirali su protein koji bi mogao pomoći u održavanju aktivnosti tih imunoloških stanica koje se bore protiv raka, te potencijalno ponuditi novi način za jačanje terapija modificiranim T-stanicama u borbi protiv raka debelog crijeva.
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.
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.
