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Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows
Thames Water intentionally diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups towards other costs including bonuses and dividends, the Guardian can reveal.
The company, which serves more than 16 million customers, cut the funds after senior managers assessed the potential risks of such a move.
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Single-use plastic bags are not only wasteful,they cause serious damage to the environment and our health. Anne-Marie Bonneau, 56, is on a mission to put more reusable produce bags into the world. With the help of her sewing bee group, who make them from upcycled fabric, they’ve given more than 4,000 bags away.
As more cities and states implement plastic bag bans,Bonneau, who is known online as the Zero-Waste Chef, is helping people in California’s Silicon Valley make the move away from single-use plastic bags and spreading joy in the process.
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Every few years, a team from Brazilian state body Funai enter the forest hoping to find signs of the community in order to assesses their wellbeing and security. Here is what their most recent mission revealed
In 1999, when Jair Candor came across four huts, several hunting blinds and a fishing spot used by a previously unknown group of people, he immediately followed government policy and retreated.
Brazil’s 1988 constitution requires that such places – where uncontacted peoples or isolados are proven to be – be declared Indigenous territory and outsiders should avoid making unwanted contact with communities living there.
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Exclusive: Efforts to eradicate American mink help boost population of river-residing mammal in 11 areas of country
Water voles continue to decline in their distribution across Britain but there are signs of recovery in some regions, with populations bouncing back in 11 key areas, according to a report.
The river-residing mammal, which inspired Ratty in the Wind in the Willows, has revived in number in parts of Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and East Anglia thanks to targeted conservation work.
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For ecologists restoring the vast bogs of remote Karelia, wild reindeer are not just part of the environment but entwined with the ancient culture of the boreal forests
The Finnish folk musician Liisa Matveinen lives in a mustard-coloured house in Ilomantsi, 12 miles (20km) from the Russian border. Large books of folk songs line her walls. Sitting in her kitchen, Matveinen sings about a humble hunter going into the woods to find reindeer.
The song tells us how they were “honoured” providers of food, clothing and a sense of place, says Matveinen, who is recognised as a doyenne of Finnish folk music.
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Machynlleth, Powys: After many decades of the closest observation, good humour and protection, she will be much missed
Every other Saturday for 41 years, the word “Machynlleth” would alert nature-lovers to Bill Condry’s latest dispatch for the Guardian’s country diary. His milltir sgwâr – “square mile” – was the RSPB’s Ynys-hir nature reserve, of which he was warden.
On my way north this week, I turned in here. While there, two ravens quarrelled
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OECD’s Pisa program will measure the ability of students to take action in response to climate anxiety and ‘take their position and role in the global world’
“It’s going to get hot and everything’s going to be on fire and the oceans will rise,” says a year 11 student, Josh Dorian. “That’s just like the worst of the worst. How do you combat that?
“Well, you fix it, you stop it from happening, you take preventive measures,” says Josh, who is studying VCE environmental science at Mount Lilydale Mercy College, a high school in Melbourne’s outer east. “Involving kids in that is scary but I think it’s necessary.”
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Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in Aceh in 2004. Now warning systems are in place, but some feel more could be done
It was just before 8am on Sunday 26 December 2004 when the earthquake struck. Abdul Rahem, 47, a fisher, was strolling along the beach, enjoying the morning breeze near to his home in Lam Awe, a sleepy fishing village on the coast of Aceh in Indonesia. He retreated to paddy fields when the violent shaking and swinging stopped. But it wasn’t until he heard the cries of neighbours that he realised something was seriously wrong. People were shouting: “The water is coming.”
Rahem raced home to get his elderly father, and supported him as they tried to flee along the broken road, which had been twisted and torn by the quake. His father urged him to go ahead and leave him, but Rahem refused. “I said, ‘No, no, no, if we die, we die together.’”
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Elevate the basics with cupboard staples and when it’s all finished store the leftovers quickly
Turning a dish from what you might have at the weekend to something special to impress guests can often be achieved just by adding something which is already in the fridge or cupboard.
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Critically endangered grasslands in Tasmania’s Midlands were being destroyed by agriculture, but an innovative partnership has protected the remaining ecosystem – and local farmers’ profits
When Tasmania’s lowland native grasslands were first recommended for national listing as a critically endangered ecosystem in 2007, mistrust between farmers and conservationists was high.
“We walked out of a stakeholder meeting in the Ross pub,” says Simon Foster, whose family have been farming on the Midlands since 1823.
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Večernji obroci mogu utjecati na metaboličko zdravlje, upozorava nedavno objavljena studija. Naime, konzumirati više od 45% dnevnog unosa kalorija nakon 17 sati, može pridonijeti višim razinama glukoze u krvi kod starijih osoba s predijabetesom ili ranim dijabetesom tipa 2, a loše regulirana razina glukoze u krvi može tijekom vremena pridonijeti razvoju dijabetesa tipa 2, većem kardiovaskularnom riziku i kroničnoj upali.
U novoj velikoj studiji otkriveno je da su genetske varijante koje povećavaju mogućnost disleksije povezane s razlikama u područjima mozga koja su uključena u motoričku koordinaciju, vid i jezik.
Ispijanje više šalica kave tijekom dana može pomoći u sprječavanju kognitivnog pada kod osoba s fibrilacijom atrija, ukazuju rezultati novog istraživanja. Inače, fibrilacija atrija je najčešći poremećaj srčanog ritma u odraslih osoba koji povećava rizik od demencije.
Nova studija pokazala je da se plazmatske razine proteina znanog kao placentni faktor rasta (PlGF), potencijalno mogu koristiti kao biomarker za probir i praćenje kognitivnih oštećenja i demencije.
Prema rezultatima nove studije dodatak stereotaktičke radioterapije tijela (SBRT) sistemskoj terapiji sorafenibom značajno poboljšava preživljenje bez progresije bolesti (PFS) i vrijeme do progresije u bolesnika s lokalno uznapredovalim hepatocelularnim karcinomom.
Rezultati nove studije pokazali su da većina hranjivih tvari dobivenih iz jaja (lecitini, apolipoproteini i nezasićene masne kiseline) nije povezana s povećanim rizikom od pretilosti. Iznenađujuće, većina istraživanja sugerira da te hranjive tvari smanjuju vjerojatnost pretilosti putem regulacije metabolizma lipida.
Poznato je da sleep apneja pridonosi srčanim problemima, dijabetesu i bolestima jetre. No, čini se da ona također ima izravne učinke na zdravlje mozga, pokazuje nova studija. Naime, pokazalo se da osobe sa sleep apnejom doživljavaju ubrzano starenje bijele tvari mozga, koja služi za povezivanje različitih regija mozga.
Rezultati nove studije ukazuju da zanemarena vrsta neizravnog oštećenja mozga pridonosi trajnoj invalidnosti nakon moždanog udara. Naime, pokazalo se, da je talamus - neka vrsta središnjeg mrežnog čvorišta koje regulira funkcije kao što su jezik, pamćenje, pažnja i kretanje - pogođen mjesecima ili godinama nakon što je osoba doživjela moždani udar.
Znanstvenici upozoravaju da su ljudi koji žive s neurodegenerativnim bolestima poput demencije ili Parkinsonove bolesti posebno osjetljivi na pogoršanje zdravlja uslijed toplinskih valova zbog većeg rizika od komplikacija povezanih s vrućinom.
Unatoč medicinskim smjernicama koje podržavaju upotrebu antivirusnih lijekova kod male djece s dijagnozom gripe, nedavna studija izvješćuje o premaloj upotrebi spomenutih lijekova. Inače, gripa čini do 10% svih pedijatrijskih hospitalizacija tijekom zimske sezone.
Doba u kojem živimo obilježeno je sve bržim promjenama koje se name?‡u morskom okolišu, a gotovo za sve odgovorni su ljudi. Obalna zona Sredozemlja, pa tako i našeg Jadranskoga mora, mjesto je na kojemu obitava više od polovice ukupnog stanovništva Mediterana te zbog toga ovo usko područje predstavlja i jedan od najugroženijih morskih okoliša.
U našem dijelu svijeta, koji zovemo zapadnim i smatramo razvijenim, prije samo 50 godina nisu sve žene imale pravo glasa na izborima, nisu imale jednak pristup obrazovanju, nisu mogle voditi države i nisu imale pristup visokim pozicijama u poslovnom svijetu.
Gotovo svi su upoznati s činjenicom kako oceani i mora prekrivaju više od 70 % površine Zemlje. Me?‘utim, nedovoljno je prepoznato kako su oceani, mora i obalna područja esencijalni dio Zemljinih ekosustava te kako o njima ovisi cijelo čovječanstvo, bilo na obali ili u dubokoj unutrašnjosti kontinenata! Zašto?
Ovaj cilj održivog razvoja odnosi se na ostvarivanje održive proizvodnje i potrošnje u čemu trenutačno ne uspijevamo jer je ekološki otisak koji ostavljamo i dalje ve?‡i od resursa koje imamo na raspolaganju. Dakle, potrebno je promijeniti načine na koji proizvodimo hranu, smanjiti bacanje hrane, pove?‡ati udjele obnovljive izvore energije u ukupnoj proizvodnji energije, pravilno gospodariti otpadom tijekom čitavog njegovog životnog ciklusa kako bi, me?‘u ostalim što manje utjecali na zaga?‘enje zraka, vode i tla.
Razvoj industrije i infrastrukture kao temelja za pove?‡anje životnog standarda za sve ljude, uz okolišno prihvatljiva rješenja te uključivanje novih tehnologija tema je cilja održivog razvoja koji se odnosi na okolišno prihvatljivu industrijalizaciju, kvalitetnu, pouzdanu, održivu i prilagodljivu infrastrukturu, a sve uz primjenu novih tehnologija, istraživanja i inovacija.
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