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From LNG to drilling in Alaska, here’s everything you need to know about Trump’s energy and climate executive orders
Through a flurry of executive orders, a newly inaugurated Donald Trump has made clear his support for the ascendancy of fossil fuels, the dismantling of support for cleaner energy and the United States’ exit from the fight to contain the escalating climate crisis.
“We will drill, baby, drill,” the president said in his inaugural address on Monday. “We have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have – the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are going to use it. We’re going to use it.”
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As the captain of a royal research ship, I break ice to get to British stations in the Antarctic. It’s great fun - but getting stuck is always a risk
I have been working for the British Antarctic Survey since I was 19. I started icebreaking on my first trip to the Antarctic and got hooked. Now I am the captain of the royal research ship Sir David Attenborough and I find icebreaking addictive.
It’s unique in a maritime career to have the ability, even as a junior officer, to do quite intricate ship handling and manoeuvring at all stages. Ships break the ice continually, 24/7 – so the whole bridge team gets to do it.
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A decade ago, up to 1,000 of the apex predators lived in one South African bay. Now they have gone, fleeing from killer whales. But the gap they have left creates problems for other species
The first carcass of a great white, a small female, washed up in South Africa on 9 February 2017. The 2.6-metre-long body had no hook or net marks, ruling out human involvement. Whatever had killed her had vanished. So too had all the other great white sharks in Gansbaai on the Western Cape, Dr Alison Towner noticed.
“We had several sharks acoustically tagged, and later realised three had moved as far as Plettenberg Bay and Algoa Bay, more than 500km [300 miles] east,” says the Rhodes University marine biologist.
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Mark Avery to stand down from role with Wild Justice but won’t completely give up campaigning, he insists
If government ministers and civil servants are grey squirrels, they may think they can rest easy – the predatory pine marten in the Westminster jungle is leaving them in peace.
A campaigner who has “created a landscape of fear” over the authorities’ failure to protect nature is stepping back from Wild Justice to spend more time with the wildlife – and grandchildren – in his garden.
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The Marches, Shropshire: As the ice thins and the paths begin to stick, the ravens and owls are getting busy with their breeding season
Up on Cyrn y Bwch (Horns of the Buck), known as Old Racecourse Common, a plateau on the edge of the Oswestry Uplands, winter comes and goes in a week. There are still white punctuation marks fallen from the rich quiet of a snow spell that feels dreamlike now as the puddle ice thins to kitchen film and paths turn claggy.
The thaw is a kind of recall as the past returns. Mounds of heather, the grey, private memories of a heath, like an old tune muffled by bracken and birch. The racecourse grandstand ruins where 18th-century punters watched their fortunes gallop away like horses over the hills. West, the green folds of Powys. East, the sunlit plains of north Shropshire fading towards the Wrekin floating on the horizon. South, a track rolls down through conifers where a small stand of beech and oak are trapped, shadowy apparitions imprisoned in the vertical lines of the plantation.
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Representatives of Heartland Institute linking up with MEPs to campaign against environmental policies
Climate science deniers from a US-based thinktank have been working with rightwing politicians in Europe to campaign against environmental policies, the Guardian can reveal.
MEPs have been accused of “rolling out the red carpet for climate deniers” to give them a platform in the European parliament, amid warnings of a “revival of grotesque climate denialism”.
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Many palm species in the city are receptive to embers and hard to extinguish – and they likely helped spread the fires
When the Los Angeles wildfires broke out on the morning of 7 January, some of the most dramatic images were of palm trees set ablaze along Sunset Boulevard. In the days that followed, burning palms became a symbol to illustrate what may be the costliest wildfires in history, which left at least 25 dead and destroyed thousands of structures.
The trees are icons of the city. They also played a role in spreading the flames, researchers and fire officials say.
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Fans of the flower – known as Putricia – say they are ‘obsessed’ with the plant, although they have ‘never smelt that before’
In Sydney, word is spreading: a rare endangered plant named after a deformed penis is beginning to unfurl.
Outside Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden greenhouse on Thursday, a diverse crowd of hundreds has formed. International tourists wait expectantly by families and young, trendy couples. Babies are everywhere.
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Acronyms, in-jokes and online fan clubs spring up as viewers across the globe prepare for Sydney’s first corpse bloom in 15 years – from a safe distance
In a Sydney greenhouse, a tall pointed flower is about to bloom for the first time in years.
To the scientific community, the Botanic Gardens of Sydney’s corpse flower is known as amorphophallus titanum, which translates to large, deformed penis. But online, the rare endangered plant has taken on a new name: Putricia.
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First Quantum Minerals’ copper operation was shut down more than a year ago, but Indigenous people report restrictions on movement and unexplained illness and death
For the people of the nine Indigenous communities within the perimeter of the sprawling Cobre Panamácopper mine, travelling into and out of the concession is far from straightforward. An imposing metal gateway staffed by the mining company’s security guards blocks the road. People say the company severely restricts their movement in and out of the zone, letting them through only on certain days.
The mining concession, located 120km (75 miles) west of Panama City, is owned by Canada-based First Quantum Minerals, which operates through its local subsidiary, Minera Panamá. The company’s private security guards, not the national police, patrol the concession. Local residents, mostly subsistence farmers of modest means, say that First Quantum operates as a state within a state.
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U nedavnom istraživanju znanstvenici su istraživali povezanost između unosa masnih kiselina iz hrane i vjerojatnosti razvoja bubrežnih kamenaca među odraslim osobama. Rezultati su pokazali da ljudi koji konzumiraju više polinezasićenih masnih kiselina (PUFA), mononezasićenih masnih kiselina (MUFA) i zasićenih masnih kiselina (SFA) mogu imati veće izglede za razvoj bubrežnih kamenaca.
Unatoč značajnom terapijskom napretku, rak dojke ostaje vodeći uzrok smrti kod žena povezanih s rakom. Liječenje obično uključuje operaciju i naknadnu hormonsku terapiju, ali kasni učinci ovih tretmana uključuju osteoporozu, seksualnu disfunkciju i krvne ugruške. Sada su znanstvenici stvorili novi tretman koji je eliminirao male tumore dojke i značajno smanjio velike tumore kod miševa u jednoj dozi, bez problematičnih nuspojava.
Izgleda da prekomjerne količine proteina RELMβ, kojeg luče crijevne vrčaste stanice, mijenjaju profil crijevnih mikroba na način koji uzrokuje da tijelo ne tolerira određene namirnice, otkriva nova studija.
Rezultati nove studije pokazali su da pojedinci s višim razinama korisne crijevne bakterije pod nazivom Faecalibacterium također imaju manje štetnih bakterija poput E. coli.
Rak mokraćnog mjehuraima stopu izlječenja od preko 90% kada se rano otkrije, ali ima visoku stopu recidiva od 70%, što zahtijeva kontinuirano praćenje. Kasno otkrivanje često zahtijeva velike operacije poput uklanjanja mjehura nakon čega slijedi implantacija umjetnog mjehura ili korištenje vrećice za urin, što značajno smanjuje kvalitetu života pacijenta.
Osobe s kožnom bolešću psorijazom često imaju nevidljivu upalu u tankom crijevu s povećanom sklonošću "propusnim crijevima", ukazuje nova studija. Inače, kronične upalne bolesti crijeva (IBD), posebice Crohnova bolest, češće su u bolesnika s psorijazom nego u ostatku populacije.
Izgleda da COVID-19 povećava rizik od razvoja sindroma kroničnog umora. Naime, ljudi koji su dobili COVID-19 imaju gotovo pet puta veću vjerojatnost da će razviti sindrom kroničnog umora, ukazuj rezultati nove studije.
U nedavno objavljenoj studiji znanstvenici su utvrdili kako specifične značajke retinalne vaskulature mogu pomoći u predviđanju rizika od moždanog udara kod pojedinca. Moždana vaskulatura ima mnogo zajedničkih značajki s moždanim krvnim žilama. Zapravo, fundoskopski pregled retine (mrežnice) tako otkriva zdravlje krvožilnog sloja mozga.
Svakih 40 sekundi netko u SAD-u doživi moždani udar. Kod preživjelih od ishemijskog moždanog udara, najčešće vrste moždanog udara, samo 5 posto njih se potpuno oporavi od moždanog udara. Većina drugih pati od dugotrajnih problema, uključujući slabost, kroničnu bol ili epilepsiju.
Više kemijskih spojeva pronađenih u dimu cigareta i e-cigareta može promijeniti funkciju ključne vrste imunoloških stanica koje se nalaze u plućima, ukazuje nova studija.
