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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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Andy Burnham has announced a crackdown, but doubts remain over authorities’ ability to take on organised crime
“There were parents dropping their children off and then heaving from the smell,” says Liz Thompson, 45, who runs Blessings Nursery in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
During the recent heatwaves, the smell from an illegal waste dump on Midland Road, just metres from the nursery, became so unbearable that staff had to keep the doors and windows shut and the children couldn’t play outside.
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Meteorologists say mean average temperature of 16.5C was made 130 times more likely by climate crisis
This year’s summer was the UK’s hottest on record, according to provisional data, and the Met Office said the season’s mean temperature was made 130 times more likely by the climate crisis.
Record-breaking and back-to-back heatwaves have scorched much of Europe. In England, temperatures peaked at 38.1C (100.1F) at Kew Gardens in London on 13 August, and June had already been confirmed as the country’s hottest since records began in 1884. Scientists have said these heatwaves are only possible because of the climate crisis driven by burning fossil fuels.
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As families await news of missing loved ones, the disaster is a stark reminder of how the climate crisis is creating a fast-growing threat. Plus, the town considered India’s ‘Jurassic Park’
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It has been hard not to despair while watching the ruinous floods swallow parts of Nepal, and harder, still knowing that the agony compounds each passing day for dozens of Indian families whose members remain unaccounted for.
Social media is awash with desperate pleas, photos and details of the young and old, men and women, from Mumbai to Kolkata, posted by families searching for traces of life. The disaster unfolded when a melting glacier slammed into the valley below, unleashing a deadly cascade of rock and ice down the Bhote Kashi River, which flows from Tibet into Nepal.
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Head of tree collections at Kew ‘very worried about this autumn’ as hot, dry summer has caused brittleness
High winds associated with El Niño could cause widespread mortality among tree species already weakened by a prolonged period of extreme heat and drought, experts have warned.
This summer much of Europe has been scorched by a series of record-breaking climate crisis-induced heatwaves. The impact is notable across much of England’s countryside, where once green land has turned brown, and many trees are undergoing “early autumn” – wilting and losing their leaves early – to cope with extreme heat.
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Savings grow as energy prices in Great Britain rise and cost of panel installation falls, analysis finds
Households in Great Britain’s cloudiest regions could still save more than £400 a year on their energy bills by installing rooftop solar panels, research has found.
Rising wholesale energy prices mean the potential savings from a home solar panel system have climbed in recent years, as the cost of installation has continued to fall, leading to increased demand.
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Who dreams of having a Euro summer now when staying in an ancient, uncooled building in the Old Town is like trying to sleep in a wood-fired pizza oven?
This week the Euro summer comes to an end – and so does a certain type of posting on Instagram.
Waiting at the bus stop in the grey winter dawn, a slanting rain soaking your trouser leg, you can warm yourself by scrolling your feed and seeing pictures of Australians enjoying a Euro summer. There it is again – azure Greek coves, plates of barbecued sardines, the yachts rented by the hour, and selfies on the balcony of some Paris Airbnb, drinking wine in the long, blue night.
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Arthur Downing, author of Power and the People: A History of British Energy, says all-encompassing rapid transition will need a mutualised system
Have you ever wondered why it is that most houses in the UK are reliant on gas boilers? Not what’s stopping more people from replacing them with heat pumps, but instead why and how the gas boiler became so ubiquitous in the first place?
Arthur Downing, the author of the new book Power and the People: A History of British Energy, can tell you exactly why. “We only have boilers in our houses because of a state-owned enterprise that went into everybody’s home and installed natural gas-suitable appliances at no direct cost,” he says. The nationalised gas industry of the 1940s to the 1980s, which oversaw this huge project, was for three decades one of the “most dynamic, innovative, efficient industries in Britain”, Downing says. Yet few of us would use these terms to describe it as such now.
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A week on from the flash flooding disaster, authorities are urging relatives of the thousands of missing and dead to provide blood samples
An army official calls out a name. A young woman stands, two pieces of identification in her hands. She fills out a form, takes another and moves to the back of the hospital to give a vial of blood.
With so many people killed by Nepal’s floods, and hundreds of bodies being buried because the morgues are full, there is now a push to identify victims through DNA. The woman, Prakrit Gurung, 19, is hoping her DNA will be linked to her mother’s body. Her father’s has been found – her brother recognised his picture on a wall outside the hospital.
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Taha Kafil-Hussain flies a drone above Coogee beach. Mostly he zooms in on seaweed or turtles – but occasionally he spots a shark and clears the water
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“Hey Taha, what’s the visibility like?” shouts a man with a towel slung over his shoulder.
“Uh, nice,” says Surf Life Saving New South Wales drone operator Taha Kafil-Hussain.
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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.
Milijuni ljudi diljem svijeta pogođeni su bolestima koje uzrokuju ožiljke na plućima, što često dovodi do poteškoća s disanjem i smanjene kvalitete života. Progresivno ožiljkavanje pluća može ozbiljno oštetiti disanje i obilježje je mnogih kroničnih plućnih bolesti, ponajviše plućne fibroze, za koju su mogućnosti liječenja vrlo ograničene i neučinkovite.
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.
