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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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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
‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks
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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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Campaigners say pheasants and partridges reared ‘on industrial scale’ do not have same protections as chickens
The government is considering a crackdown on pheasant shooting in England as part of a consultation on strict new animal welfare laws that would affect shoot organisers.
Ministers are already considering plans for the issuing of licences for those who run game bird shoots. The proposals mean anybody associated with wildlife crime, such as the poisoning or shooting of birds of prey, would be banned from hosting shooting events.
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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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From New York to Quebec, photographer Bryan Anselm spent months capturing spaces overrun with plastic and the actions individuals and groups are taking to reduce waste
In New York City, the plastic we discard has a way of remaining in plain sight. There are few alleys to hide residents’ refuse, and the clear recycling bags leave their contents on full display. In a city built on a dense grid, lightweight wrappers, bags and bottles spill from overflowing bins and skitter down sidewalks, collecting in gutters and corners before the wind carries them on.
All that plastic is a layer of the urban landscape, as familiar as subway grates and fire escapes, revealing a messy and unflattering aspect of city life. “Garbage is not what we cast out, but the prime locus of meaning in our lives,” the character Nick Shay says in Don DeLillo’s Underworld.
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A fragment of temperate rainforest lies on the edge of Dartmoor, and following years of conservation work, its owners have now opened up a sustainable campsite next to this fragile ecosystem
Mist blankets the valley as I wheel my camping gear down the small hill towards a clearing ringed by trees and shrubs. A picnic bench sits at its edge, angled towards the reason why I’m here: one of the last remaining fragments of temperate rainforest in Britain. I’m pitching my tent at Wray Valley Camping, a low-impact site on Dartmoor’s eastern edge between Lustleigh and Moretonhampstead, where I’ll spend five days on one of the site’s “nearly wild” pitches.
Also known as Atlantic woodland, temperate rainforests depend on a rare combination of high humidity, rainfall and consistently mild coastal temperatures where the sea moderates the climate. They once stretched from the western Highlands of Scotland down to Cornwall, covering 20% of the UK, and sheltering rare and delicate lichens and plants. Today more than 95% of our temperate rainforest cover is gone, but Devon’s near-constant dampness and its exposure to the Atlantic make it one of the last strongholds for this rare habitat.
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El Niño is associated with weaker monsoons in India – but research suggests it can also bring more extreme rainfall
The world is bracing for a “super” El Niño, and its effects are already being felt in India, where the monsoon has brought less rain than average but more intense downpours.
Meteorologists predict that the current El Niño, which is developing over the Pacific, could be one of the strongest in living memory. India is likely to be heavily affected, particularly later in the monsoon, when El Niño’s influence tends to strengthen.
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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.
