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European scientists warn of consequences for weather patterns, the global climate and marine life
Temperatures on the ocean surface have hit a record high, raising fears of another burst of extreme heat this summer.
On 21 June, temperatures outside the polar regions exceeded the extraordinary highs observed at the same time in 2023 and 2024, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Wednesday.
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Despite contamination at Malkins Bank in Cheshire, it is deemed suitable for golf … and now a children’s play area
One morning in Sandbach, a neighbour appeared at Graham Warner’s door with a large folder: a delivery, she said, from an unidentified source.
“I think you’ll find this very interesting. Happy reading,” she said.
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Cumbria police and National Trust appeal for information after young tree taken from Wray parkland and castle
A sapling taken from the Sycamore Gap tree has been stolen from the grounds of a castle just months after it was planted.
The Sycamore Gap tree, on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, was one of the UK’s best-known and most loved trees. It was criminally felled for no apparent reason on a stormy night in September 2023.
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Past and present leaders of wealthy nations such as UK and Germany have argued their actions are insignificant
On first hearing, it is a position that sounds reasonable. “When our share of global emissions is less than 1%,” Rishi Sunak argued when he was the UK prime minister in 2023, “how can it be right that British citizens are now being told to sacrifice even more than others?”
Sunak is not the only world leader to have cited such figures while delaying cuts to pollution. In 2019, Scott Morrison, Australia’s then prime minister, used his country’s 1.3% of global emissions to reject any suggestion Australia was not “doing our bit” on climate breakdown. In July, the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, pointed to his country’s 2% share of global emissions while supporting loopholes in European climate targets. A few months later the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, followed suit, flagging the EU’s 6% share.
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The class politics of extreme heat are very real and very dangerous – but that doesn’t stop the billionaire press from peddling its agenda
Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it discovers a new level. It turns out there’s an even deeper hole you can dig for yourself than climate-science denial: heat-stress denial. Across the billionaire press last week, columnists and leader writers minimised the health impacts of the heatwave, particularly in schools. Expect more of this next week, when temperatures are forecast to soar again.
An editorial in the Telegraph (which represents the newspaper’s view) titled “Hot weather alarmism treats the public like children” maintained that “unlike in the seventies, when people were largely trusted to look after themselves, officialdom now feels the need to lecture the public about the risks of hot weather at every opportunity”. Extreme heat warnings are issued and weather maps are “painted in an alarming red”. Outrageous! Instead of issuing warnings, the government should just trust people to “take the appropriate precautions”. We should all “learn to live” with it. Quite right too: whatever happened to the bulldog spirit of ignorance and needless death? Cricket, warm beer, excess mortality: these are the markers of national character.
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Charmouth, Dorset: On a busy beach day, I find bright green gutweed thriving by the river mouth. It’s resilient – and loves the nutrients found in sewage
Charmouth beach is always busy. Even on grey and stormy winter days, walkers and their dogs patrol the hissing waves, and fossil hunters pick over rubble newly fallen from the black cliffs.
With summer here and school holidays approaching, the sands are strewn with visitors and the car park packed with glittering windscreens. It’s a lovely place to swim, as long as you heed the council signs warning of E coli and keep away from the River Char and its immediate outflow, which is often contaminated.
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Study reveals extreme heat causes sharp drop with knock-on effect for pollination of food crops in following years
We know heatwaves have serious health consequences for humans, but what about other species? A study has shown they severely diminish bees’ fertility, with significant implications for the pollination of food crops in the following years.
Prof James Gilbert of the University of Hull his and colleagues simulated a three-day UK heatwave in the lab and measured its effect on solitary red mason bees, compared with those kept under control conditions of an ordinary summer.
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Reasons for increase not clear but experts say it could be welcome sign marine ecosystem is becoming healthier
The Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast have long drawn fans of the natural world keen to catch sight of the resident guillemots and puffins.
But as recently as last week, another much bigger black-and-white animal has been delighting wildlife spotters. Orcas have been appearing more regularly than ever before.
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Study shows falling dust levels are making clouds more reflective, an effect not taken into account in climate models
Cleaner clouds are helping to slow the rate of global heating, a study shows. Falling levels of dust in the atmosphere are making clouds more reflective. This previously unidentified effect is not being taken into account by current climate models, which may mean they are slightly overestimating the projected rate of global heating.
Researchers analysed satellite observations of high clouds in the northern hemisphere and assessed the ratio of ice crystals to liquid droplets over the period 2008 to 2018. Their findings, published in Geophysical Research Letters, show that clouds have become less icy over that time. Weakening surface winds (due to climate change) have resulted in less dust being whipped up into the atmosphere over the last two decades. Dust particles help to seed ice crystals, so less dust means fewer ice crystals in clouds. The effect is not observed in southern hemisphere clouds because there is far less dust in the southern hemisphere atmosphere in the first place.
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More jaguars are killed in Bolivia each year by poachers than in any other country, driving the population to critical levels. But a recent successful release from captivity could radically increase the jaguar’s chances of survival
A tentative paw emerged from a steel cage on to the sandy riverbed deep in the Bolivian rainforest. Then, another. Slowly, the female jaguar looked right, left and right again, as if waiting to cross a busy road. Then, muscles stiff from the long journey, it strolled away and disappeared into the undergrowth.
Yaguara had been in captivity since August 2024, after being orphaned as an eight-month-old cub amid Bolivia’s worst recorded wildfire season. As the fires raged, burning more than 10% of the country’s surface area, authorities handed the cub over to a team of veterinarians from the Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi (CIWY), a wild-animal rescue centre.
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Rezultati nove studije pokazali su da lijekovi agonisti GLP-1 receptora (GLP-1 RA) smanjuju broj smrtnih slučajeva, amputacija i hospitalizacija među osobama s dijabetesom tipa 2 koje su također imale sužene arterije nogu povezane s PAD-om (bolest perifernih arterija).
Liječnici imaju malo mogućnosti za pacijente koji razviju životno opasno plućno stanje zvano akutni respiratorni distres sindrom (ARDS). ARDS, čest uzrok smrti tijekom pandemije COVID-19, nastaje kada upalna kaskada izazvana infekcijom ili ozljedom propušta tekućinu u pluća, smanjujući razinu kisika u krvi. Nažalost, gotovo 40% pogođenih umire.
Viša razina vitamina A u cirkulaciji povezana je s boljom funkcijom pluća kod djece i odraslih s astmom, dok vitamin D pokazuje slične koristi kod odraslih, uključujući sporije biološko starenje, otkriva nova studija.
Visoke doze intravenskog (IV) vitamina C mogu smanjiti rizik od smrti i sepse kod pacijenata s traumom, kao i skratiti boravak u bolnici, sugeriraju rezultati nove studije.
Blokada imunoloških kontrolnih točaka (ICB) preoblikovala je krajolik liječenja uznapredovalog hepatocelularnog karcinoma (HCC), nudeći novu nadu tamo gdje je postojalo malo opcija. Međutim, samo manjina pacijenata postiže trajne odgovore, uglavnom zbog heterogenosti tumora, imunosupresivnog tumorskog mikrookruženja (TME) i primarne ili stečene otpornosti.
Nova studija sugerira da bi uklanjanje nazalnih virusa koji uzrokuju simptome moglo smiriti alergijsku upalu i otvoriti novi put liječenja za milijune ljudi s alergijskim rinitisom. Uklanjanje komenzalnih virusa iz nosa intranazalnim kapima ribavirina poboljšava simptome kod miševa, dok ribavirin sprej poboljšava simptome kod pacijenata u malom ispitivanju faze 2, što sugerira ulogu ovih virusa u razvoju alergijskog rinitisa.
Žene s Parkinsonovom bolešću mogu biti osjetljivije na promjene u mozgu povezane s Alzheimerovom bolešću od muškaraca, tvrdi nova studija. Inače, Parkinsonova i Alzheimerova bolest često se javljaju zajedno kod starijih osoba, no spolne razlike u patologiji povezanoj s Alzheimerovom bolešću među osobama s Parkinsonovom bolešću ostaju nedovoljno istražene.
Prema rezultatima nove studije, osobe s dijabetesom koje su preboljele COVID-19 imaju tendenciju sporijeg oporavka, imaju više dugoročnih komplikacija COVID-19, imaju lošiju kvalitetu života i zahtijevaju pažljivije i dulje praćenje od strane medicinskih timova.
Svjetska zdravstvena organizacija (WHO) preporučuje isključivo dojenje tijekom prvih šest mjeseci života zbog njegovih mnogih dokazanih prednosti, uključujući zaštitu od infekcija i podršku zdravom dugoročnom razvoju. Međutim, percepcija da dojena djeca spavaju manje ili im je potrebno češće hranjenje od dojenčadi hranjene adaptiranim mlijekom i dalje je uobičajena među roditeljima i skrbnicima
Prije nego što zglobovi postanu bolni, psorijatični artritis (PsA) često počinje tiho kao entezitis - upala gdje se tetive i ligamenti pričvršćuju za kost. Ovo skriveno stanje je nevidljivo rutinskim pregledima, ali se može otkriti ultrazvukom. Sada nova studija pokazuje da inhibitor IL-17A sekukinumab može brzo smanjiti ovaj subklinički entezitis.
