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      Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 15:13

    A process called biofortification puts nutrients directly into seeds and could reduce global hunger, but it’s not a magic bullet

    In 2004, Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas made an alarming discovery: 43 foods, mostly vegetables, showed a marked decrease in nutrients between the mid and late 20th century.

    According to that research , the calcium in green beans dropped from 65 to 37mg. Vitamin A levels plummeted by almost half in asparagus. Broccoli stalks had less iron.

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      ‘Being so helpless is hard to describe’: can rescuers win the race against time to save an orphaned orca?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 12:19

    Experts are trying everything from drums to whale calls to lure kʷiisaḥiʔis – or Brave Little Hunter – out of the Canadian lagoon she has been trapped in since the stranding death of her mother

    As a two-year-old orca calf circled a lagoon off the west coast of Canada on Monday, she heard a comforting sound resonating through the unfamiliar place in which she found herself: the clicks and chirps of her great-aunt.

    But the calf, named kʷiisaḥiʔis (pronounced kwee-sahay-is, which roughly translates as Brave Little Hunter) by local First Nations people, could not locate another whale in the shallow waters. The calls, broadcast from speakers placed underwater, were part of a complex and desperate operation still under way to try to save the stranded calf.

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      The planetary health diet: ‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken from them’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 09:54

    A group of hospitals in Germany serve up a menu rich in plants and light in animals – and say they have had few complaints

    Patrick Burrichter did not think about saving lives or protecting the planet when he trained as a chef in a hotel kitchen. But 25 years later he has focused his culinary skills on doing exactly that.

    From an industrial park on the outskirts of Berlin, Burrichter and his team cook for a dozen hospitals that offer patients a “planetary health” diet – one that is rich in plants and light in animals. Compared with the typical diet in Germany, where the cuisine is best known for bratwurst sausage and doner kebab, the 13,000 meals they rustle up each day are better for the health of people and the planet.

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      Sinking US cities increase risk of flooding from rising sea levels

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 06:00

    Subsidence linked to extraction of groundwater and natural gas, and weight of buildings pressing into soft ground

    A number of cities on the US east coast are sinking, increasing the risk of flooding from rising sea levels.

    Between 2007 and 2020 the ground under New York, Baltimore and Norfolk in Virginia sank between 1mm and 2mm a year, other places sank at double or triple that rate, and Charleston, South Carolina, sank fastest, at 4mm a year, in a city less than 3 metres above sea level.

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      ‘We’d like to shoot them all’: growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 06:00

    Experts say the hybrids risk ‘polluting’ the genetic stock, but scientists disagree on how to deal with them. In Piedmont, Italy, the sight of a blond wolfdog signals the risk of another new litter

    • Photographs by Alberto Olivero

    From the moment the rangers first saw him on their trail cameras, the problem was apparent. The wolf, spotted deep in the woods of Italy’s Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park, was not grey like his companion, but an unusual blond. His colouring indicated this was not a wolf at all, but a hybrid wolfdog – the first to be seen so far into Piedmont’s alpine region. And where one hybrid is found, more are sure to follow.

    “We thought he would go away,” says Elisa Ramassa, a park ranger in Gran Bosco who has tracked the local wolves for 25 years. “Unfortunately, he found a female who loves blonds.”

    Elisa Ramassa and fellow ranger Massimo Rosso search for wolf tracks in Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park

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      Surge of new oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 06:00

    World’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds

    The world’s fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.

    There can be no new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid careering past 1.5C (2.7F) of global heating, above pre-industrial times, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has previously stated . Breaching this warming threshold, agreed to by governments in the Paris climate agreement, will see ever worsening effects such as heatwaves, floods, drought and more, scientists have warned.

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      From a graceful turn to a dangerous toy: the World Nature Photography awards 2024 – in pictures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 03:04


    The World Nature Photography award winners have been announced from a pool of entries from all corners of the globe – including a baby elephant in Kenya and an owl-like plant in Thailand. The top award and cash prize of $1,000 went to Tracey Lund from the UK for her image of two gannets under the water off the coast of the Shetland Islands. Lund and her fellow winners were drawn from thousands of images

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      Macron calls proposed EU-Mercosur trade pact ‘very bad deal’ lacking strong climate commitments

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 01:16

    French president tells Brazil forum both parties need to be ‘much stronger’ on biodiversity and climate

    Emmanuel Macron has called a proposed trade agreement between the EU and South America’s Mercosur bloc a “very bad deal” that lacks proper climate considerations.

    “As it is negotiated today, it is a very bad deal, for you and for us,” the French president told Brazilian businessmen in São Paulo on Wednesday while on a three-day trip to Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy.

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      Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 18:00

    Global adoption of diet low in meat would aid health, land and food systems as well as reducing emissions, researchers say

    A global shift to a mostly plant-based “flexitarian” diet could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help restrict global heating to 1.5C, a new study shows.

    Previous research has warned how emissions from food alone at current rates will propel the world past this key international target.

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