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The talks in Azerbaijan have seen nations at odds over how much money developed countries should provide to poorer ones
Marching in silence with their arms crossed high, activists from around the world protested the draft deal at the Cop29 venue last night.
“Pay up or shut up!” the campaign group Demand Climate Justice said in a post on social media.
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Conservationists failed to capture elusive insects this summer, so Kristina Kenda offered to step in
When British conservationists flew to Slovenia this summer hoping to catch enough singing cicadas to reintroduce the species to the New Forest, the grasshopper-sized insects proved impossible to locate, flying elusively at great height between trees.
Now a 12-year-old girl has offered to save the Species Recovery Trust’s reintroduction project. Kristina Kenda, the daughter of the Airbnb hosts who accommodated the trust’s director, Dom Price, and conservation officer Holly Stanworth in the summer summer, will put out special nets to hopefully catch enough cicadas to re-establish a British population.
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Advocates and officials argue that consequences of Israeli siege are inextricably linked to tackling the climate crisis
As countries negotiate over climate finance, Palestinian officials and advocates have come to Cop29 in Baku to highlight global heating’s intersection with another crisis: Israel’s siege on Gaza.
“The Cop [meetings] are very keen to protect the environment, but for whom?” said Ahmed Abu Thaher, director of projects and international relations at Palestine’s Environment Quality Authority, who had travelled to Cop29 from Ramallah. “If you are killing the people there, for whom are you keen to protect the environment and to minimise the effects of climate change?”
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When the rain kept coming down, people began to worry. We were afraid the dam up the hill might not hold up. This is Jie’s story
Location Guangdong, China
Disaster Extreme rainfall, 2024
Li Jie lives in Xianniangxi, a mountainous village in southern China’s Guangdong province with her family, where she is a social worker for a rural non-profit organisation and also works in the fields. The climate crisis has increased heavy rainfall in Guangdong and exacerbated floods in the province in April 2024, which have since killed at least 47 people.
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Low-pressure system brings deaths and power outages to region, while an Arctic blast sweeps swaths of Europe
Large parts of the US have been battered by severe weather this week, as low pressure developed over the north-west coast. The weather system intensified into a phenomenon known as a bomb cyclone, which rapidly intensified to an estimated central pressure of 942 hectopascals (hPa) – close to the lowest pressure recorded in that area.
To be classified as a bomb cyclone, the central pressure of a low pressure system must fall by at least 24hPa in 24 hours. Wind speeds exceeded 70mph (113km/h) near Seattle, while Canada had the strongest winds with gusts of about 100mph. There were two deaths and almost 500,000 people in the region were left without power.
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Steve Reed says he may not agree on inheritance tax changes but government will listen to rural Britain
The UK environment secretary has promised to reform the food system to ensure farmers are paid fairly for the food they produce, after many filled the streets of Westminster to campaign against inheritance tax changes.
Speaking at the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) conference, Steve Reed said: “I heard the anguish of the countryside on the streets of London earlier this week. We may not agree over the inheritance tax changes, but this government is determined to listen to rural Britain and end its long decline.”
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From YouTube video guides to sourcing parts, here are some ways to extend the life of your appliances and sentimental items
One of the best ways we can reduce our household’s carbon footprint is to repair things instead of throwing them away. But it’s also a way of life for many people.
“Seems I’ve spent most of my life fixing stuff because I was brought up that way,” observes Phil, from Bedfordshire. “I look at everything that comes my way as potentially useful and more often than not, it is,” writes Richard, a designer from Essex.
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Residents concerned as North Carolina city lifts boil advisory and scientists detect lead in water at area schools
When the western North Carolina town Swannanoa was battered by Hurricane Helene in September, two large trees crushed Stephen Knight’s home. His family of six was launched into a complicated web of survival: finding a temporary home, applying for disaster relief, filing insurance claims.
The new logistics of living included the daily search for food and water. Until earlier this week, most residents of this town east of Asheville had no drinkable tap water for 52 days. After the storm damaged infrastructure around the region, water had been partly restored in mid-October. It was good for flushing toilets but not safe for consumption. In some places, sediment left the water inky like black tea.
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As Ford announced cutting 800 UK jobs it said rules forcing companies to sell more EVs each year are ‘unworkable’
When Ford announced this week that it was cutting 800 jobs in the UK, the US carmaker also had stern words for the government. It has joined in a chorus of criticism of rules that force car companies to sell more electric vehicles each year. The rules, known as the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate, are simply “unworkable”, Ford said.
Someone should have told Ford back in 2022, when the carmaker strongly backed the policy. In fact, it went further, calling for the British government to force carmakers to sell even more electric cars each year.
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Food and garden rubbish is sorted and then cooked to produce rich compost at this waste management centre
Ash Turner sizes up a four-metre-high, 60-tonne mound of food waste and garden rubbish and points out the problematic interlopers amid the grass clippings, hedge trimmings, mango seeds, calla lilies and biodegradable bags full of food.
“So that’s a biodegradable bag … that’s not … that’s oversized,” he says, pointing to a tree stump that will be too big to be broken down by the various machines in the plant.
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Rezultati nedavno objavljenog istraživanja sugeriraju da bi električna stimulacija mogla biti ključna za održavanje zdravlja tetiva, nudeći nove mogućnosti za popravak i regeneraciju tetiva.
Prema rezultatima nove studije, dnevna doza vitamina B3 smanjuje upalu u plućima pacijenata s kroničnom opstruktivnom plućnom bolesti (KOPB). Ovo otkriće je važno jer upala može dovesti do smanjene funkcije pluća kod oboljelih od KOPB-a.
Nova studija pruža uvjerljive dokaze da gastroezofagealna refluksna bolest (GERB) - stanje koje se tradicionalno prepoznaje kao probavni poremećaj karakteriziran refluksom kiseline i žgaravicama - može utjecati na ključne čimbenike kardiovaskularnog rizika, uključujući krvni tlak, profile lipida i rizik od srčane bolesti.
Rezultati nove studije sugeriraju da mikrobi usne šupljine mogu igrati ulogu u mentalnom zdravlju majke i naglašavaju potencijal za ciljane intervencije tijekom trudnoće za poboljšanje mentalnog zdravlja.
Mlade odrasle osobe s rizikom od psihoze pokazuju smanjenu povezanost mozga, nedostatak koji se čini da se pogoršava korištenjem kanabisa, pokazalo je novo istraživanje. Ovo otkriće utire put liječenju psihoze usmjerenom na simptome koje sadašnji lijekovi propuštaju.
Novo istraživanje pokazalo je da dim cigareta može izazvati poremećaj orofaringealne mikrobiote što pogoršava ozbiljnost infekcije virusom gripe tip A. Inače, već dulje vrijeme poznato je, da je dim cigareta nezdrav i povezan s mnogim različitim respiratornim bolestima.
Žene s poviješću endometrioze i fibroida (mioma) maternice mogle bi imati povećani dugoročni rizik od prerane smrti, pokazalo je veliko istraživanje provedeno u SAD-u.
Unatoč strahovima od akrilamida, ova studija otkriva da kruh od cjelovitih žitarica može zaštititi od raka debelog crijeva, dok bijeli kruh pokazuje potencijalne rizike, ukazuje nova studija.
Rezultati nove studije pokazali su da suplementacija prebioticima, probioticima i sinbioticima rezultira poboljšanom osjetljivošću na inzulin i smanjenom hormonskom neravnotežom kod žena sa sindromom policističnih jajnika (PCOS).
Dijabetes tipa 2 dijagnosticiran prije 50. godine donosi neočekivani zdravstveni rizik, posebno ako ste pretili, ukazuje nova studija. Naime, spomenute osobe izložene su većem riziku od razvoja demencije.
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.
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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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