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Refugee Council says ‘many refugees themselves could also be prosecuted’ under proposals
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Q: The Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary says you are wrong, and the third runway won’t be built until you are 70. You are 45 now. Why is he wrong?
We’re signing off decisions on wind farms, on solar farms, a commitment to a new stadium at Old Trafford. We are upgrading the Transpennine route to make journey times easier between York and Manchester via Leeds and Huddersfield. Those things are happening right now.
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Critics say chancellor’s ‘growth at all costs’ plans are not compatible with UK’s climate targets
Rachel Reeves has been accused by environmental experts of putting the climate at risk with high carbon projects including the expansion of Heathrow airport.
The chancellor made airports the central focus of her plan for growth, despite having previously promised to be the first green chancellor and having extolled the benefits of green growth.
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While the US president seems hellbent on securing Greenland, local experts advise that achieving control of its potentially lucrative shipping route will be no mean feat
If shipping boss Niels Clemensen were to offer any advice to Donald Trump or anyone else trying to get a foothold in Greenland, it would be this: “Come up here and see what you are actually dealing with.”
Sitting on the top floor of his beamed office in Nuuk harbour, where snow is being flung around by strong winds in the mid-morning darkness outside and shards of ice pass by in the fast-flowing water, the chief executive of Greenland’s only shipping company, Royal Arctic Line, says: “What you normally see as easy [setting up operations] in the US or Europe is not the same up here.” As well as the cold, ice and extremely rough seas, the world’s biggest island does not have a big road network or trains, meaning everything has to be transported either by sea or air. “I’m not saying that it’s not possible. But it’s going to cost a lot of money.”
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Court says UK government green light for Rosebank and Jackdaw permits does not take into account CO2 emissions
The decision to greenlight a giant new oilfield off Shetland has been ruled unlawful by the courts in a major win for environmental campaigners.
The proposed Rosebank development – the UK’s biggest untapped oilfield – had been given the go-ahead in 2023 under the previous government.
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Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on
Something was happening to the birds at Tiputini. The biodiversity research centre, buried deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, has always been special. It is astonishingly remote: a tiny scattering of research cabins in 1.7m hectares (4.2m acres) of virgin forest. For scientists, it comes about as close as you can to observing rainforest wildlife in a world untouched by human industry.
Almost every year since his arrival in 2000, ecologist John G Blake had been there to count the birds. Rising before the sun, he would record the density and variety of the dawn chorus. Slowly walking the perimeter of the plots, he noted every species he saw. And for one day every year, he and other researchers would cast huge “mist” nets that caught flying birds in their weave, where they would be counted, untangled and freed.
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Garrigill, Cumbria: The further we walk along the South Tyne river, the grander the gorges – till we reach a sweeping amphitheatre
The felltop road from Nenthead to Garrigill is still icy and we have to go carefully. Patches of snow linger behind dry stone walls despite the sunlight that delineates the workings and ruins of these heavily mined moors. Garrigill village, once a hub of industry where 1,000 people lived, is now a quiet collection of houses around a triangular green. The Spine Race ultramarathon recently passed through here on the Pennine Way and I think of those runners, way-finding by head torch, keeping on going through the night, challenged by weather, heading for the Scottish borders.
It’s the geology that drew people to settle here and to mine the hills for lead and silver, and it’s the geology that has fashioned the landscape of our walk. Looking over Garrigill Bridge, it’s extraordinary to think that this stripling river, rushing through its narrow gorge, is the South Tyne. Water tumbles over horizontal layers of limestone, sandstone and shale, sedimentary rocks laid down 330m years ago as mud silt and sand, thrust through by mineral veins of galena and fluorspar.
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Mete Coban, 32, says climate policy will bring ‘social, economic and racial justice’ to deprived communities
Working-class people and those from ethnic minorities will benefit most from a range of environmental policies being implemented in London, the capital’s deputy mayor has said.
Mete Coban, 32, grew up in a council flat in the borough of Hackney and saw for himself the difficulties the lack of green space, poor or overcrowded housing and polluted air can cause.
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Across the continent, millions of hectares of land are being used and run by local people coexisting with wildlife in spaces where both can thrive
Africa’s first national park was created 100 years ago by the Belgian colonial state in the Congo, and since then hundreds more have been developed – but in many areas there is more wildlife in protected areas run by local people.
Tens of millions of hectares across the continent are home to community-run “conservancies”, managed by herders, farmers and hunter-gatherers, who coexist with herds of large animals such as elephants, giraffes and buffalo.
The Nashulai conservancy in southern Kenya. The country now has more than 230 community-run reserves covering 16% of the country. Conservancies have helped wildlife recover while benefiting local people
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This week the EU will argue the UK’s ban on catching the tiny fish, celebrated by conservationists, amounts to discrimination against Danish fishers
“We did it!” These were the words uttered by the RSPB last year when, after 25 years of campaigning, the UK government banned fishing for sandeels in the North Sea and Scotland. The small eel-like fish might not seem a likely species to inspire a decades-long fight – but they are the treasured food of one of Britain’s rarest and most threatened seabirds, the puffin, as well as many other UK seabirds and marine species.
The celebrations, however, were short-lived. The EU threw its weight behind Denmark – the country with by far the biggest sandeel fishing fleet – and challenged the ban, meaning that this week, the humble sandeel will become the focus of the first courtroom trade battle between the UK and the EU since Brexit.
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Royal Botanic Gardens scientists are heading to the Victorian national park in search of plant survivors amid the charred landscape
The Grampians globe-pea, a critically endangered wiry shrub, had finished flowering and was fruiting when fires tore through its home in the Grampians national park, in western Victoria. The spiny plant with vibrant orange and yellow flowers is extremely rare and restricted to a handful of sites, including areas within the 76,000 hectares that burned over December and January.
Finding the globe-pea will be a priority when a plant rescue mission led by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria heads to the Grampians to search for survivors and signs of life amid the charred landscape.
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Rezultati nove studije pokazali su da čak 45% oboljelih od dijabetesa tipa 2 pati od višestrukih nedostataka vitamina, minerala i elektrolita. Vrlo niske razine vitamina D bile su najčešći nedostatak, koji je utjecao na više od 60% osoba s dijabetesom tipa 2.
Prema podacima Hrvatskog zavoda za javno zdravstvo (HZJZ), tijekom sezone gripe 2024./2025., do 2. tjedna 2025. godine, zabilježen je porast broja oboljelih od gripe u Hrvatskoj. Posebno zabrinjava visoka stopa incidencije kod djece predškolske dobi, dok osobe starije od 65 godina bilježe najniže stope oboljenja.
Nova studija provedena u Turku PET Centru u Finskoj pokazala je da promjene u funkcioniranju opioidnih neurotransmitera u mozgu mogu biti uzrok anoreksije nervoze.
Eksperimentalni test krvi može učinkovito i točno otkriti rak debelog crijeva kod osoba srednje i starije životne dobi, pokazuje nova studija. Test krvi bio je 81% točan u otkrivanju raka debelog crijeva među ljudima koji imaju tu bolest. Također je bio 90% točan u isključivanju raka debelog crijeva kod zdravih ljudi.
Pacijenti s metastatskim kolorektalnim rakom (mCRC) koji nose mutacije BRAF V600E imali su koristi od prve linije liječenja s ciljanim terapijama encorafenibom i cetuksimabom plus mFOLFOX6 režimom kemoterapije, ukazuje nova studija.
Rezultati nove studije pokazali su, da su pacijenti s pretilošću i cirozom jetre povezanom s masnom jetrom koji su imali barijatrijsku operaciju (gubljenje tjelesne težine) značajno smanjili budući rizik od razvoja ozbiljnih jetrenih komplikacija u usporedbi s pacijentima koji su primali samo medicinsku terapiju.
Endometrioza je povezana s kroničnom sustavnom upalom, oksidativnim stresom i visokim razinama lipida, što sve doprinosi aterosklerozi. Formiranje i progresija ateroskleroze koronarnih arterija povećava rizik od kardiovaskularnih bolesti poput koronarne arterijske bolesti (CAD) i hipertenzije.
Nova studija otkrila je da mikroplastika remeti vaskularne i neurobihevioralne funkcije uzrokujući da imunološke stanice koje su je progutale postanu mehanički zarobljene u uskim cerebralnim žilama.
Neuroblastom je najčešći ekstrakranijalni solidni tumor u djece, s gotovo 50% slučajeva dijagnosticiranim u uznapredovalom stadiju, često s metastatskom bolešću. Unatoč napretku u liječenju, stope preživljavanja visokorizičnog i relapsiranog/refraktornog neuroblastoma i dalje su loše, a mogućnosti poput autologne transplantacije matičnih stanica i imunoterapije često su nedostupne u slabije razvijenim zemljama.
Američki znanstvenici sa University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus pronašli su obećavajućeg kandidata za lijek koji bi mogao pomoći u vraćanju vida kod osoba s multiplom sklerozom (MS) i drugim neurološkim stanjima koja oštećuju neurone.
