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In response to a request from Hvar's registered charity Dignitea, the EC has sent a full explanation of the regulations which should be applied to the proposed oil and gas drilling in the Adriatic.
British Veterinary Association president tells MPs surge in cases putting farmers under severe pressure and stress
The worst bluetongue season on record has been a major animal welfare crisis in Great Britain, MPs have been told, putting farmers under “severe emotional stress”.
Bluetongue, a viral disease that affects sheep, cattle and goats, can cause fever, lesions, stillbirths and death. The tongue may go blue and protrude from the mouth.
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Researchers find the birds’ guano feeds algal blooms that absorb significantly more solar energy
Penguin poo is making the Antarctic snow melt faster, a study shows. As temperatures rise, penguins are waddling closer to the south pole, with potential for this previously unrecognised phenomenon to affect a wider area.
Snow algae are tiny single-celled plants that make a home in some of the coldest places on Earth. When nutrients are scarce, the algae produces red pigments to protect itself from the sun and slow growth.
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Farmers in Gurez store their harvests underground to last the Himalayan winter. As the practice fades, local varieties and handed-down skills are disappearing too
Hajra Begum rolls a potato in her hands, checking its skin for cuts, soft spots and signs of rot. After a day harvesting in her family’s field in Chorwan, a remote mountain village in Gurez, Indian-administered Kashmir, she is sorting the crop for winter storage. Some of the potatoes will feed her family through the cold months; others will be saved for planting in spring.
“It should be perfect for planting,” she says. “If you keep a bad potato, you will waste the whole next year.”
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Frome, Somerset: Dippers and fritillaries and pink campion … there is a deep satisfaction in accumulating associations with a regular haunt
Enchantment surely fills the eyes of first-time visitors who come upon this little stone bridge over the stream. Do they marvel at the judgment of hands in building, wedding rock with rock, face against face? Do they arrive on a brighter morning than this, one on which sunbeams chase each other under the arch and cast sparkling reflections of water on the underside? Does their pulse quicken watching the brook breaking out of its tunnel and skittering over the pebbled bed, hastening through even in times of sluggish drought?
Me? I see a bird that isn’t there.
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Guardian and Mongabay reveal approaches to officials and MPs on behalf of Vantara zoo ahead of UK-chaired Cites meeting on endangered animal imports
British government ministers were told not to engage formally with Vantara, the controversial mega-zoo run by the Indian billionaire Anant Ambani, after lobbying efforts by the private animal sanctuary in the run-up to a UK-chaired meeting on the trade in endangered species, according to documents.
This week, the UK heads a 32-country committee meeting in Geneva of Cites, the United Nations body that regulates trade in endangered species. The meeting will examine how India has responded to compliance concerns about imports of endangered animals.
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Cop30 host sets out steps to break link with coal, oil and gas as it aims to move focus from negotiating to implementing
All countries can start to break their dependence on fossil fuels now without needing to wait for new technologies or economic changes, Brazil’s government has said ahead of a global climate summit.
Brazil, the host of last year’s UN climate conference, set out the world’s first global “roadmap” for phasing out fossil fuels on Tuesday, showing that countries could boost their economies and pull people out of poverty while breaking the link with coal, oil and gas.
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Garden Climate Assessment Tool will allow users to predict a plant’s response to the projected climate in a given location
“In the 20th century, we could pretty much grow the same things with confidence, we could learn from previous generations,” said Prof Sam Brockington, a curator at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
“But now we’re moving into climate scenarios that we just don’t have the traditions to understand fully.”
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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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With globe-spanning artists – including Charlotte Church doing angry electropop – the Flow project is hoping to make an impact at this month’s Cop31
Amid tense and long-winded negotiations, and with the future of the planet at stake, emotions can often run high at Cop climate summits. But last year, when the annual conference arrived in Brazil, one UN official was unexpectedly moved to tears by five women singing about the power of water.
“She gave me a massive hug after the event and said, ‘We need to bring music into Cop,’” says Nikita Llerena, the project manager for Flow, a music collective that’s hoping to bring art to the centre of the climate movement. What started as a handful of musicians meeting over Zoom last year has grown into a full-length album that unites female artists from around the world, including Charlotte Church, Maxine Peake and Nadine Shah. This month, members of the collective will return for Cop31, in Turkey, where they have been promoted to a slot at Global Cultural Action’s opening event.
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Scientist Adalberto Luis Val’s pioneering research on the tambaqui fish is revealing the effect of climate disruption in Brazil, with global implications for biodiversity and food security
As a boy in rural São Paulo, Adalberto Luis Val used to stare into the lake where his father took him fishing and wonder how all those creatures swimming below stayed alive. One day, he netted a few, put them in a jar, and brought them home to observe. The next morning, they were all dead. Val was devastated but intrigued.
“I needed to know how fish are able to live,” he says.
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Slušne halucinacije – ili slušanje glasova koje drugi ne čuju – pogađaju više od 70% osoba sa shizofrenijom. Unatoč liječenju antipsihoticima, otprilike 40% i dalje ima trajne halucinacije. Za ove pacijente hitno su potrebni novi pristupi liječenju.
Nova studija je otkrila da žene koje su češće jele hranu s visokim udjelom šećera imaju veći rizik od raka dojke, dok ni ukupni šećer u prehrani ni konzumacija voća nisu pokazali statistički značajnu povezanost. Voće je činilo oko 43% ukupnog šećera u prehrani, a prosječni unos šećera bio je 44 grama dnevno. Žene koje su konzumirale više od dvije porcije hrane s visokim udjelom šećera tjedno imale su 28% veći rizik od onih koje su jele jednu porciju mjesečno ili manje.
Protein koji sudjeluje u izgradnji zuba mogao bi se jednog dana koristiti kako bi se oštećenim zubima omogućilo da se sami obnove, pokazuju rezultati nove studije provedene u SAD-u.
Od otpornog škroba do staničnih stijenki biljaka, znanstvenici istražuju skrivenu konkurenciju i suradnju među crijevnim bakterijama, postavljajući intrigantna pitanja o tome što se događa s različitim vlaknima nakon što dođu do debelog crijeva.
U nedavno objavljenoj studiji znanstvenici su procijenili učinke konzumacije oraha na imunoglobuline (Ig) i antitijela usmjerena protiv lipoproteina niske gustoće modificiranih malondialdehidom (MDA-LDL). Nakon dvije godine, dugotrajna konzumacija oraha bila je povezana s ukupnim koncentracijama IgG-a u serumu koje su bile približno 6% više nego u kontrolnoj skupini, što upućuje na mogući utjecaj prehrane na cirkulirajuće imunološke biomarkere.
Aorta se često prvenstveno smatra najvećom krvnom žilom u tijelu - izdržljivim kanalom koji dostavlja krv bogatu kisikom iz srca u svaki organ. No, sve više dokaza upućuje na to da je stijenka aorte također aktivno imunološko okruženje. Imunološke stanice koje se nalaze unutar ili su regrutirane u različite dijelove aorte mogu utjecati na to kako se ova žila razvija, prilagođava mehaničkom stresu i postaje osjetljiva na bolesti.
Međunarodna studija izvještava o 60-postotnom preživljenju bez progresije bolesti 10 godina nakon autologne transplantacije koštane srži, pružajući važne dokaze o trajnim pozitivnim kliničkim ishodima i dugoročnoj sigurnosti kod pacijenata liječenih zbog rane, teške sistemske skleroze.
Novo istraživanje pokazuje da osobe s glioblastomom imaju aktivnije trombocite – stanice koje sudjeluju u zgrušavanju krvi. Trombociti također komuniciraju s drugim stanicama i mogu utjecati na imunološku aktivnost. Hiperaktivni trombociti kod osoba s glioblastomom usporavaju djelovanje T-stanica koje se bore protiv raka, što može pridonijeti rastu tumora i napredovanju bolesti.
Prepune karotenoida i drugih bioaktivnih spojeva, klice brokule i mikrozelenje privlače znanstvenu pozornost. Karotenoidi su prehrambeni pigmenti koji doprinose boji voća i povrća te pomažu u nekoliko fizioloških procesa. Karotenoidi uključuju karotenoide provitamina A, poput beta-karotena, alfa-karotena i beta-kriptoksantina, te karotenoide koji nisu provitamin A, poput luteina, zeaksantina i likopena. Karotenoidi mogu utjecati na osjetljivost na inzulin, metabolizam lipida, adipogenezu i upalnu signalizaciju.
Zubna caklina je visoko mineralizirani vanjski sloj zuba. Caklina štiti unutarnje slojeve zuba od šećera i kiselina koje unosimo hranom, kao i od svakodnevnog žvakanja, grizenja i trenja. Ona je najtvrđe tkivo u ljudskom tijelu.
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.
