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Government keen to avoid panic as oil price surges, but perhaps households need advice on reducing consumption
Labour ministers sent out in recent days to respond to the looming energy crisis sparked by the Iran war have essentially stuck to that reassuring wartime slogan: keep calm and carry on.
“I think people should go about their lives as normal, knowing that the government is taking action to bring energy bills down,” James Murray, the chief secretary to the Treasury, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday.
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Merlin could disappear in worst-case scenario, with British isles facing ecological ‘point of no return’
The merlin, Britain’s smallest bird of prey, is one of more than 200 species that will become extinct in the UK if action is not taken to curb emissions and unsustainable land use, a study has claimed.
According to the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), there is a 20-year window in which decisions on climate and land use will determine the fate of dozens of Britain’s native species.
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Research from the University of Exeter find that the method could help reduce thefts by as much as 50%
Gulls thrive on snatching chips from unwary beachgoers, but now research shows that painting a pair of eyes on takeaway boxes could put gulls off, reducing thefts by as much as 50%.
Laura Kelley, from the University of Exeter, and colleagues presented herring gulls with tempting takeaways at a number of seaside towns in Devon and Cornwall. When faced with a choice between a box with eyes painted on it and a plain box, the gulls were slower to approach the box with eyes and less likely to peck at it. And the findings, which are published in Ecology and Evolution, show that the effect is sustained, with gulls remaining wary of the boxes with eyes on them, even after repeated exposure.
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Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: These early spring bloomers are a favourite of mine, a model of nature’s generosity, yet so often ignored
The drier days of March are always marked by the hum of dutiful grass-cutting on our urban Midlands housing estate, and so I know I will have to look to the gutters and pavements to spot my favourite spring flower. Sure enough, the first one I see is blooming in a crack beside a crumbling wall on the busy main road. I can’t help but let out a joyful shout, leaning down to cradle its fierce lion head in my fingers. Hello, dandelion, how I’ve missed you!
Perhaps it’s being a wheelchair user, closer to the ground than most, that has given me a special place in my heart for them, or perhaps it’s because I’ve always felt like a weed myself, inconvenient and growing in the wrong place. Either way, I have long been kindred spirits with keen-eyed toddlers who love to carry them in their fists. I’ve often joked that my bridal bouquet will be dandelions, please. I can honestly think of no finer flower. Why? Because there is no better example of nature’s generosity than a dandelion.
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Government told to focus on transition to mix of wind, solar, tidal and nuclear energy
More drilling in the North Sea would do nothing to improve the UK’s energy security, former military leaders have said, as a new analysis finds no fossil fuel importer is safe from chokepoints in the global supply chain.
The government should focus on a rapid transition to a mix of wind, solar, tidal and nuclear energy to ensure the UK’s future security, the former military leaders told the Guardian, as well as a programme of energy efficiency and a “major renewal” of the electricity grid.
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‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink,’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’
Almost 40% of England’s seas are designated as marine protected areas. Their purpose, the government says, is “to protect and recover rare threatened and important marine ecosystems … from damage caused by human activities”.
And yet in the four years to 2024, trawlers using vast nets, including those that scour the seabed, caught more than 1.3m tonnes of fish within them, according to official figures that campaigners say show they are “little more than lines on a map”.
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Brittlestars, sea anemones and a catshark among new-to-science species collected during expedition off the Queensland coast
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Marine scientists have discovered more than 110 new fish and invertebrate species in the Coral Sea – a figure they believe could exceed 200 as more are identified.
The species were found in waters between 200 metres and 3km deep in the Coral Sea marine park, Australia’s largest marine protected area, which spans nearly 1m sq km to the east of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Home to one of the world’s largest deposits of freshwater, the Great Lakes region will soon host next-generation generators – just as prices are being hiked across the US
Submersible hydroelectric technology deployed across the Great Lakes could become a key cog in clean energy efforts, supporters say, amid surging electricity demand and costs.
Home to one of the largest deposits of freshwater on the planet, the Great Lakes region has on its shores some of the largest cities in North America in Chicago, Toronto, Montreal and Detroit, where electricity demand is growing. While none of the five Great Lakes have significant tides or currents to fuel hydropower, several of the waterways that link the lakes do.
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The great naturalist, who is about to turn 100, is still surprised by wildlife in his new series about British gardens. But not every pet owner will be happy with his top tips
Whenever David Attenborough speaks, the world listens – so his latest BBC programme, which heralds the broadcaster’s 100th birthday, is bound to attract attention.
Secret Garden, which features five different UK gardens, might not be what people normally expect from Attenborough, says the show’s series producer, Bill Markham, as “there’s no lions and tigers”.
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For decades, there was no record of Andrena rehni exisiting in the US. In 2018 it was found in Maryland and five years later I found it in New York State
I’ve loved insects ever since I was a kid and spent summers looking for them. My mum would always tell me that from the age of one – even before I could walk – I would happily sit outside, watching ants and trying to follow them back to their colony.
As an adult, I take people out to meadows with nets to catch insects and take a close look at them. It’s about trying to cultivate a childlike curiosity that people have lost or forgotten in daily life.
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Neredovito vrijeme spavanja u srednjim godinama može signalizirati povećani rizik od kardiovaskularnih bolesti, sugerira nova studija. Naime, velike promjene u vremenu odlaska u krevet mogu udvostručiti rizik od ozbiljnih srčanih događaja - posebno među onima koji spavaju manje od osam sati.
Rezultati nove studije pokazali su da odrasle osobe s većim ukupnim unosom šećera imaju veću vjerojatnost razvoja žučnih kamenaca, što dodaje nove dokaze da svakodnevna prehrana može igrati značajnu ulogu u zdravlju žučnog mjehura. Naime, svako povećanje ukupnog unosa šećera od 100 g/dan povezano je s 41% većim rizikom od žučnih kamenaca, čak i nakon prilagodbe s demografskim, kliničkim, načinom života i prehrambenim čimbenicima.
Prijevremeni porod glavni je uzrok neonatalnih bolesti i smrti, posebno među ženama s anamnezom prijevremenog poroda. No, znanstvenici u Japanu istraživali su može li uzimanje probiotika u ranoj trudnoći pomoći u smanjenju rizika od spontanog prijevremenog poroda. Istraživanje je pokazalo, da su žene koje su konzumirale probiotike koji sadrže Clostridium butyricum imale niže stope recidiva u usporedbi s nacionalnim prosjekom, što sugerira da probiotska terapija može ponuditi jednostavnu strategiju za sprječavanje prijevremenog poroda.
Čak i nakon što upala prođe, matične stanice debelog crijeva mogu zadržati skriveno molekularno pamćenje koje povećava vjerojatnost kasnijeg rasta tumora, nudeći novu mehanističku vezu između kronične upalne bolesti i rizika od raka, ukazuje nova studija.
Pacijenti koji imaju zatajenje srca s očuvanom ejekcijskom frakcijom (HFpEF) i visokim krvnim tlakom u plućima (plućna hipertenzija) doživjeli su značajna poboljšanja krvnog tlaka i zdravlja krvnih žila nakon uzimanja lijeka sotatercept, tvrdi nova studija.
Prema rezultatima nove studije, pacijenti s kroničnom potpunom blokadom koronarne arterije koji su primili nekirurški postupak za ponovno otvaranje arterije pokazali su statistički značajno smanjenje boli u prsima i poboljšanje kvalitete života u usporedbi s pacijentima koji su primili placebo postupak.
Kada pacijenti razviju suženje ili začepljenje žučnih kanala liječnici moraju utvrditi je li uzrok rak ili benigno stanje. Lokacija tih začepljenja otežava dijagnozu, a ta nesigurnost može odgoditi odluke o liječenju pacijenata u slučaju da imaju ovu rijetku vrstu raka. No, sada su američki znanstvenici sa UPMC Hillman Cancer Center i University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine razvili BiliSeq, molekularni test koji otkriva rak žučnih kanala s dvostruko većom osjetljivošću od standardnog testa, dajući liječnicima točniju sliku pacijentove dijagnoze.
Multipla skleroza je iscrpljujući neurološki poremećaj uzrokovan neispravnim imunološkim odgovorima koji ciljaju mozak i leđnu moždinu središnjeg živčanog sustava (SŽS). Neuspjeh imunološkog sustava da razlikuje svoje od tuđih entiteta dovodi do prekomjernih autoimunih odgovora protiv vlastitih proteina poput mijelina, koji tvori zaštitni omotač na neuronima.
Nova studija otkrila je da 27 posto pacijenata s rezistentnom hipertenzijom ima hiperkortizolizam. Ovo je značajno otkriće koje pokazuje da je hiperkortizolizam češći kod ovih pacijenata nego što su znanstvenici i kliničari prije mislili.
Terapija za snižavanje kolesterola evolokumabom smanjila je rizik od većih neželjenih srčanih događaja za gotovo jednu trećinu među pacijentima koji nisu imali poznatu značajnu aterosklerozu i imali su dijabetes, pokazuje nova studija.
