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Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis
The El Niño climate phenomenon is “supersizing before our eyes”, the UN has said. The event is near certain to shatter temperature records, according to the latest forecasts.
The El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into an atmosphere where temperatures are already rising rapidly due to global heating. The combination means 2027 is set to “blow apart” the record and be the hottest year ever recorded.
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Huge rollout of fish farms could harm ecosystems and threaten vulnerable communities’ food sources, say experts
Nearly half of the world’s wild fish catch will be ground into animal feed for farmed fish if plans to expand aquaculture go ahead, a report has found.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is aiming to increase aquaculture – where fish are farmed rather than caught in the wild – production by 75% by 2040.
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Climate crisis could increase incursions of Aedes aegypti, which can transmit Zika virus and dengue, experts say
An mosquito capable of transmitting tropical diseases has been found breeding in homes in east London, with experts warning that the rapidly warming climate will lead to greater “incursions of invasive mosquitoes”.
This is the first time the species has been identified breeding in the UK and the fourth time it has been detected.
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As graduates of an online training course gather from across the continent, the consensus is overwhelming: computers and saving animals go together
On a bitingly cold night in Lapalala Wilderness nature reserve in South Africa’s Limpopo province, Duncan Kanyakera watches as instructor Jacques Viljoen deploys a thermal drone in search of a lone cheetah. Once the drone has disappeared into the inky sky, Kanyakera, from Tsavo in Kenya, and 20 other conservation professionals from across Africa turn their attention to the open-air screen in anticipation.
Many of the students – from 11 African countries as far flung as Benin, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar – witnessing the demonstration have earned their places at Lapalala after performing well on an online training programme for protected area technicians (PAT) run by the Connected Conservation Foundation (CCF). Also on the course, are five members of Peace Parks staff in training.
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Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps more than 80 times as much heat than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period and causes 25% of global heating today. We definitely don’t want this gas spewing needlessly into the atmosphere, but in 2023 that’s exactly what environment editor Damian Carrington found was happening when he reported on 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks across the globe. Now Turkmenistan, the worst country for mega-leaks, has begun to plug them. Damian tells Madeleine Finlay why some experts call stopping leaks the climate ‘emergency brake’ and reveals which countries are still failing to act.
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Appledore, Devon: By-the-wind sailors have been washed up in great numbers this summer. I stumble on a single one of these bright blue beauties
Amid the hot grit of the estuarine beach, a cool light glints. Not the habitual shade of mussel shells, nor even the shimmer of sea glass, this is a blue so bright that at first I mistake it for a kind of plastic, perhaps the discarded part of a pair of goggles.
I’m about to pick it up when something prompts me to pause, mid-swoop; an inkling that this is not synthetic, but animal.
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Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities
Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found.
Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to be an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year.
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In this week’s newsletter: The full scale of the disaster is still emerging, but as rescue efforts continue, scientists warn that a warming Himalayas could mean more deadly hazards
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At 8.37am local time last Wednesday, a huge mass of rock and ice sheared free from a mountain, sliding 1,200 metres to the valley floor in Nepal’s Langtang national park, about 60km north of the country’s capital, Kathmandu.
Horrifying images and videos soon emerged of a torrent of mud, water and debris that swept down the Lhende Khola valley at speeds approaching 150km/h. Flowing down the Lhende Khola, Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers that run between Tibet and Nepal, the flood water swept away homes, roads, bridges and power plants. Along the Trishuli, water levels rose by as much as nine metres in half an hour. As of the time of writing, the death toll of the disaster approached 1,000 people, with more than 4,400 on both sides of the border missing.
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Scientists say ultrafine particles in cruise ship emissions associated with reduced ability to resist common viruses
More than 2.5 million cruise passengers travelled through Southampton in 2025. It is also the UK’s leading vehicle and deep-sea trading port. You can see the ships and port machinery from miles around. All of this is downwind of a city of 260,000 people.
A team of 32 researchers began investigating air pollution from the docks in 2018. Their research has revealed that the types of air pollution that come from ships may be more harmful than those from road traffic.
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Wildfire victims rebuilt their homes in Lahaina only to find USPS had ‘eliminated’ their addresses – while houses that didn’t burn receive mail as normal
Two months after a devastating wildfire whipped through Lahaina in August 2023, Pam Reader was allowed back to see what was left of her home. With a heavy heart, she returned to the Hawaiian oceanside town now filled with endless blocks of burned houses. As she rounded her corner, she saw the only thing remaining was her bright turquoise mailbox.
“It was an old crappy mailbox,” Reader said. “It was metal, though, which is why I think it survived.”
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Uobičajeno korišteni sistemski antifungalni lijek može pomoći u smanjenju simptoma kod podskupine pacijenata s upalnom bolešću crijeva (IBD) obnavljanjem zdravijeg crijevnog mikrobioma, tvrdi nova studija.
Nova studija je otkrila da je kvaliteta života kod osoba s multiplom sklerozom snažno povezana s njihovim performansama hodanja i funkcionalnim kapacitetom. Rezultati pokazuju da su među osobama s relapsno-remitentnom multiplom sklerozom (RRMS) niže razine invaliditeta, bolje performanse hodanja i više razine dnevne tjelesne aktivnosti povezane s boljom percipiranom kvalitetom života.
Rezultati nove studije ukazuju da je neuroaktivni potencijal bakterija koje žive u ljudskim crijevima povezan s razinama ključnih kemikalija u mozgu. Istraživanje pruža nove dokaze o biološkoj vezi između crijevnog mikrobioma i funkcije mozga.
Ginekološki tumori, uključujući rak vrata maternice, rak endometrija i rak jajnika, predstavljaju značajan globalni zdravstveni teret za žene. Posljednjih godina, i incidencija i stope smrtnosti od ovih malignih bolesti pokazuju uzlazni trend, posebno u zemljama s niskim i srednjim prihodima.
Prema rezultatima novog istraživanja, kod pacijenata sa srednje-visokorizičnom plućnom embolijom, kateterom usmjerena tromboliza poboljšala je kratkoročne kliničke ishode u usporedbi sa standardnom antikoagulacijskom terapijom.
Rutinski invazivni pristup ne bi se trebao zamijeniti selektivnijim pristupom kod starijih pacijenata s najčešćim tipom srčanog udara, tvrdi nova studija. Infarkt miokarda bez elevacije ST segmenta (NSTEMI) najčešći je tip srčanog udara. Općenito se preporuča da se NSTEMI liječi invazivnom strategijom koja uključuje angiografiju - gdje se protok krvi u koronarnoj arteriji vizualizira pomoću kontrastnog sredstva ubrizganog kroz kateter - s ponovnim otvaranjem blokiranih arterija gdje je potrebno.
Program vježbanja koji kombinira kratkoročni nadzor s dugoročnim vježbanjem kod kuće povezan je sa smanjenim opterećenjem atrijske fibrilacije i drugim značajnim koristima, pokazala je nova studija. Dok je incidencija nekih kardiovaskularnih bolesti stabilna ili se smanjuje, prevalencija fibrilacije atrija raste. Iako su promjene načina života i modifikacija faktora rizika priznate kao središnje komponente liječenja fibrilacije atrija, prilagođeno vježbanje i dalje je nedovoljno korišteno.
Rani početak uzimanja statina nakon dijagnoze dijabetesa tipa 2 povezan je s nižim rizikom od demencije, tvrdi nova studija. Inače, gotovo polovica slučajeva demencije teoretski bi se mogla spriječiti uklanjanjem 14 čimbenika rizika.
Oralni agonist relaksina, AZD5462, poboljšao je srčanu funkciju kod pacijenata s kroničnim zatajenjem srca, pokazala je nova studija. Ranije je utvrđeno da hormon peptida trudnoće, relaksin, ima potencijalno povoljna svojstva kod pacijenata sa zatajenjem srca. Raniji pokušaji razvoja lijekova koji stimuliraju relaksin receptor RXFP1 bili su neuspješni, dijelom zbog izazova nuspojava koje su moguće povezane s doziranjem koje je iznad fiziološkog. Međutim, podaci iz predkliničkih i ranih kliničkih studija s prvim oralnim RXFP1 agonistom, AZD5462, bili su obećavajući.
KRAS je jedan od najopsežnije proučavanih onkogena kod raka, a varijanta G12C postala je klinički važna nakon razvoja inhibitora specifičnih za mutacije. Iako je terapija usmjerena na KRAS G12C utvrđena i kod drugih malignih bolesti, njezina učestalost i genomske karakteristike u genitourinarnim karcinomima ostale su manje definirane.
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.
