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Green concern over liquefied gas expansion plan - BBC  (Jul 1) |
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Jul 1 · One of Europe's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals has confirmed plans to expand capacity at its site after backing from investors. South Hook in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, processes about 20% of UK current demand for natural gas. But new research has revealed LNG's environmental costs, and Friends of the Earth Cymru are "very concerned". The Welsh government said it is developing Wales' pathway to a net zero system. South Hook has been importing liquefied gas from various parts of the world before turning it into gas and delivering it to homes since 2010. At the moment, the site can process about 15.6m tonnes of gas per ... Read more ... |
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Extraordinary images of eclipse that transfixed North America - BBC  (Apr 8) |
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Apr 8 · Millions of people across Mexico, the US and Canada looked to the skies on Monday to witness a total solar eclipse carve a narrow path of darkness across the continent. Its shadow first touched the surface of the Earth in the Pacific Ocean before travelling across Mexico, turning daylight into darkness as crowds watched on. The eclipse rolled over the border into the US and brought darkness to large areas of Texas, including the cities of Austin and Dallas. Total solar eclipses happen about every 18 months, but they’re often in unpopulated or remote areas whereas this one passed over several big cities across three countries. While neither Washington DC nor ... Read more ... |
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Tracking the world's biggest iceberg as it drifts towards oblivion - BBC  (Apr 6) |
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Apr 6 · The world's biggest iceberg - more than twice the size of Greater London - is on the move. After a few weeks loitering on the fringes of Antarctica, it’s begun to drift at pace once more. A23a, as it’s known, broke away from the Antarctic coastline way back in 1986, but it's only recently begun a big migration. For more than 30 years, it was stuck rigidly in the bottom-muds of the Weddell Sea like a static "ice island". A 350m-deep keel had anchored it in place. It took gradual melting until 2020 to allow the berg to re-float and start moving again, slowly at first, before currents and winds then swept it north towards warmer air and waters. A23a is now ... Read more ... |
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Easter eggs costs rise as climate change hits crops - BBC  (Mar 21) |
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Mar 21 · Climate change is a key reason your chocolate Easter egg could cost more this year, according to researchers. Most chocolate is made from cocoa grown in West Africa, but a humid heatwave has blasted the crops and massively cut yields. Experts say that human-induced climate change has made the extreme heat 10 times more likely. Which? found some popular eggs have risen in price by 50% or more. The shortage of cocoa resulting from the heatwave has seen prices soar to almost $8,500 (£6,700) a tonne this week. Cocoa trees are particularly vulnerable to changes in the climate. They only grow in a narrow band of about 20 degrees latitude around the ... Read more ... |
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New US-Russian crew heads to space station - BBC  (Mar 3) |
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Mar 3 · A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut has blasted off from Florida bound for the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-8 mission will be in space for six months. Space is one of the few areas where the US and Russia continue to co-operate closely despite the war in Ukraine. The three men and one woman are in a capsule used in space four times before by Elon Musk's SpaceX firm. They plan to do various experiments. One will involve growing artificial replicas of human organs in the low-gravity environment - which is not possible on Earth. It will be one of more than 200 science experiments that are to ... Read more ... |
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Parts of UK may have had wettest February on record - BBC  (Mar 1) |
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Mar 1 · Parts of the UK including East Anglia, the Midlands and areas of South Wales have had their wettest February on record, the Met Office is expected to confirm on Friday. This winter's statistics from the UK's national weather service will also likely show it's been a mild winter with fewer frosty nights than normal. Data is expected on Friday afternoon. Farmers say they are losing crops to floods while less frost hurts the growth of trees like apples and pears. If confirmed, the weather statistics will be in line with long-term projections of warmer, wetter winters due to climate change. The Met Office collects weather data every day. ... Read more ... |
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Mystery sea creature discovered in UK waters - BBC  (Feb 29) |
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Feb 29 · A new species of sea slug has been discovered in UK waters. It was caught off the south-west of England from a research ship. The creature has been named Pleurobranchaea britannica. It belongs to a group found in warmer waters, which could be migrating north due to climate change. With ocean temperatures at record levels there is concern about the impact on marine life. Ross Bullimore of the Centre for the Environment, Food and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) made the serendipitous discovery. About 100 different sea slugs are found in the seas off Britain and Ireland, but he knew instantly this was something special. "It was like a light bulb going ... Read more ... |
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UK power station still burning rare forest wood - BBC  (Feb 28) |
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Feb 28 · A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world's most precious forests, the BBC has found. Papers obtained by Panorama show Drax took timber from rare forests in Canada it had claimed were "no go areas". It comes as the government decides whether to give the firm's Yorkshire site billions more in environmental subsidies funded by energy bill payers. Drax says its wood pellets are "sustainable and legally harvested". The Drax Power Station, near Selby in North Yorkshire, is a converted coal plant which burns wood pellets. In 2023, it produced about 5% of the UK's electricity. The site ... Read more ... |
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Apple unplugs electric car project, reports say - BBC  (Feb 27) |
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Feb 27 · Apple has reportedly cancelled its plans to build electric vehicles (EV) a decade after the iPhone maker was rumoured to be working on the project. The firm has never publicly acknowledged the project, which involves around two thousand people. Many employees from the project will be moved to the iPhone maker's artificial intelligence (AI) division, according to Bloomberg News. Apple did not immediately respond to a BBC request for a comment. The Apple car team was reportedly known as the Special Projects Group as part of its chief executive Tim Cook's Project Titan. As it spent billions of dollars on research and development, the company was ... Read more ... |
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Catalonia's farmers demand more help over drought - BBC  (Feb 27) |
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Feb 27 · The smell of barbecued artichokes wafts along a row of dozens of tractors parked in central Barcelona, as rock music blares out of speakers, and wine is poured into plastic cups. The scene is festive, but this is a protest, not a party. Hundreds of Catalan farmers have driven into their region's capital to voice their grievances, central to which is the climate. "We're now in a situation where we have a full-on drought," says Xavier Oliva, an artichoke farmer who owns land just outside the city. "If it doesn't rain you can't plant anything." Oliva and his colleagues are protesting about a range of issues, including what they see as overly tight ... Read more ... |
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'Ice bumps' reveal history of Antarctic melting - BBC  (Feb 26) |
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Feb 26 · Scientists say they now have a better idea of exactly where and when the margin of Antarctica started melting. They've traced the changing shapes of bumps on the ice surface that mark locations where glaciers are anchored in place. Half a century ago, few of these frozen moorings, or "pinning points", showed much change. Since 2000, however, more than a third have reduced in size, emphasising the acceleration in melting. The study's focus was the ice shelves that fringe 75% per cent of Antarctica's coastline. The shelves are the floating fronts of glaciers that have pushed out into the surrounding ocean. Many of them - especially in ... Read more ... |
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Why firms are racing to produce green ammonia - BBC  (Feb 26) |
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Feb 26 · In the 19th Century, Europeans realised what the Inca had known long before. Bird droppings, or guano, made a fantastic fertiliser. And so sprung up a gigantic industry dedicated to the harvesting of guano from Latin American bird colonies, where there were huge piles off the stuff. It was so rich in ammonia, the key ingredient, that a mere whiff could induce coughing and sneezing. Not exactly a pleasant cargo to ferry across the world. As demand for fertiliser rose in the early 1900s, someone began to think, "Perhaps there's another way?" That someone was Fritz Haber, a German chemist who, along with Carl Bosch, developed the Haber-Bosch process for ... Read more ... |
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UK quits treaty that lets oil firms sue government - BBC  (Feb 22) |
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Feb 22 · The UK has withdrawn from an international treaty that lets fossil-fuel companies sue governments pursuing climate policies for billions in compensation for lost profits. The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is meant to make it easier and cheaper to trade energy between countries. But signatories have struggled to reform it - and late on Wednesday, the UK quit the treaty calling it "outdated". Green campaigners welcomed the news. Energy Security and Net Zero Minister Graham Stuart said: "Remaining a member would not support our transition to cleaner, cheaper energy and could even penalise us for our world-leading efforts to deliver net zero." Since 2001, ... Read more ... |
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Mystery over persistent mercury levels in tuna - BBC  (Feb 21) |
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Feb 21 · Levels of mercury persist in tuna, decades after pollution controls were introduced to limit emissions, scientists say. The poisonous element is released by mining and burning coal and ends up in the ocean, where it builds up in fish. Levels have fallen dramatically in the atmosphere - but remained stable in tuna since 1971. Very old mercury lurks deep in the ocean and wells up into the waters where the tuna swim, experts say. Mercury entering marine ecosystems is converted into methylmercury, the most dangerous form of the chemical. It builds up in tuna when they consume contaminated prey. And humans are then exposed to the element when they eat ... Read more ... |
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Beef trade risks key Brazil ecosystem - campaigners - BBC  (Feb 20) |
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Feb 20 · Beef production by three of the world's biggest meatpackers has been linked to illegal deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado, according to campaigners. The savannah, which featured in Planet Earth III, hosts 5% of Earth's species and is a buffer against global warming. In one part of the Cerrado, nearly half of the farms supplying the companies had cut down trees, the Global Witness investigation suggests. The companies, JBS, Minerva and Marfrig said they acted in line with local law. The Cerrado sits next to the Amazon but unlike its neighbouring habitat has not been afforded the same protections. An upcoming EU law to reduce the import of ... Read more ... |
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'Grandfather satellite' due to fall to Earth - BBC  (Feb 20) |
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Feb 20 · A pioneering European satellite is due to fall to Earth in the coming hours. ERS-2 was a cutting-edge observation platform when it launched in 1995, forging technologies that are now used routinely to monitor the planet. It's been gradually descending since ending operations in 2011 and will take an uncontrolled, fiery plunge into the atmosphere sometime on Wednesday. The European Space Agency (Esa) says most of the two-tonne satellite will burn up on the way down. It's possible some more robust parts may withstand the intense heating generated during the high-speed dive, but the chances of these fragments hitting populated areas and causing damage ... Read more ... |
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Climate change: Plan to capture, ship and bury power station's CO2 - BBC  (Feb 18) |
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Feb 18 · Plans to lay new undersea pipes to carry carbon emissions from one of Europe's largest gas power stations have been unveiled. The scheme would link Pembroke power station with a liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal across the Milford Haven estuary in Pembrokeshire. Supporters said it would secure jobs and launch a new industry shipping CO2 from Wales to be buried at sea. But it involves major building work across a protected marine habitat. Environmental group Friends of the Earth called for the money to be spent on renewable energy rather than keeping a gas plant going. Pembroke power station has the capacity to generate enough electricity from ... Read more ... |
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Methane mega-leak exposed in Kazakhstan - BBC  (Feb 15) |
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Feb 15 · One of the worst methane leaks ever recorded took place last year at a remote well in Kazakhstan, new analysis shared with BBC Verify has shown. It is estimated that 127,000 tonnes of the gas escaped when a blowout started a fire that raged for over six months. Methane is much more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Buzachi Neft, the company that owns the well, denies a "substantial amount" of methane was leaked. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Greenhouse Gas Equivalency Calculator, the environmental impact of such a leak is comparable to that of driving more than 717,000 petrol cars for a year. "The magnitude and ... Read more ... |
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US spacecraft blasts off towards Moon's south pole - BBC  (Feb 15) |
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Feb 15 · A privately-owned spacecraft headed for the Moon has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. If the spacecraft Odysseus's mission is successful, its owner Intuitive Machines will make history as the first private company to land on the Moon. All previous landings have been carried out by national space agencies. The robotic craft will attempt to land on the lunar surface's south pole, where scientists hope there could be a source of water. It is the second commercial mission to be funded by the US space agency Nasa, as it seeks to encourage private missions to the Moon as a way to expand its reach in space. The craft launched at 01:05 EST ... Read more ... |
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Trillion-tonne iceberg A23a spins on the spot - BBC  (Feb 14) |
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Feb 14 · Like a dainty ballerina, the world's biggest iceberg has just completed a perfect pirouette. The near-trillion-tonne frozen block, A23a, began its spin at the beginning of the year, while holding broadly the same position just north of the Antarctic Peninsula. The berg is expected shortly to step into a powerful current that will sweep it away into the Southern Ocean. A23a covers an area more than twice that of Greater London. The video on this page comes from the US space agency's Modis satellite sensor system. A23a broke from the Antarctic coast in 1986, before grounding itself on a shallow part of the Weddell Sea floor for three ... Read more ... |
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Polar bears face starvation threat as ice melts - BBC  (Feb 13) |
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Feb 13 · Some polar bears face starvation as the Arctic sea ice melts because they are unable to adapt their diets to living on land, scientists have found. The iconic Arctic species normally feed on ringed seals that they catch on ice floes offshore. But as the ice disappears in a warming world, many bears are spending greater amounts of time on shore, eating bird's eggs, berries and grass. However the animals rapidly lose weight on land, increasing the risk of death. The polar bear has become the poster child for the growing threat of climate change in the Arctic, but the reality of the impact on this species is complicated. While the number of bears ... Read more ... |
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Nuclear fusion leap brings clean power dream closer - BBC  (Feb 8) |
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Feb 8 · Nuclear fusion has produced more energy than ever before in an experiment, bringing the world a step closer to the dream of limitless, clean power. The new world record has been set at the UK-based JET laboratory. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers stars. Scientists believe it could produce vast amounts of energy without heating up our atmosphere. European scientists working at the site said "we have achieved things we've never done before". The result came from the lab's final experiment after more than 40 years of fusion research. Andrew Bowie, UK Minister for Nuclear, called it a "fitting swansong". Nuclear fusion is the ... Read more ... |
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World breaches 1.5C warming threshold for full year - BBC  (Feb 7) |
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Feb 7 · For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU's climate service. World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts. This first year-long breach doesn't break that landmark Paris agreement, but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term. Urgent action to cut carbon emissions can still slow warming, scientists say. "This far exceeds anything that is acceptable," Prof Sir Bob Watson, a former chair of the UN's climate body, told the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. "Look ... Read more ... |
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World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit - BBC  (Feb 7) |
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Feb 7 · For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU's climate service. World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts. This first year-long breach doesn't break that landmark Paris agreement, but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term. Urgent action to cut carbon emissions can still slow warming, scientists say. "This far exceeds anything that is acceptable," Prof Sir Bob Watson, a former chair of the UN's climate body, told the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. "Look ... Read more ... |
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'Godfathers of wind' share engineering's QEPrize - BBC  (Feb 6) |
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Feb 6 · Two men who made critical contributions to the development of wind power will share the £500,000 QEPrize, nicknamed the "Nobel of engineering". Denmark's Henrik Stiesdal framed the early design principles for wind turbines and led the installation of the world's first offshore wind farm. The UK's Andrew Garrad developed the computer models that optimise and certify turbine and farm designs. Their innovations had changed the world, the judges said. And they had "enabled wind energy to fulfil a crucial role in today's electricity generation mix". The 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering laureates were announced at a ceremony in ... Read more ... |
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Lords urge action on electric car 'misinformation' - BBC  (Feb 5) |
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Feb 5 · The government must do more to counter "misinformation" on electric vehicles published in parts of the UK press, a Lords enquiry has said. Despite the UK passing the milestone on Monday of 1m electric cars registered, growth of the sector has flatlined. The Lords Climate Change Committee urged the government to build consumer confidence and push back against what it called mistruths on range and cost. The government did not comment on this but said £2bn was committed to EVs. Nearly a quarter of the UK's carbon emissions - responsible for climate change - are produced by road transport, according to the latest figures. Switching to electric vehicles could ... Read more ... |
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Antarctica mysteries to be mapped by robot plane - BBC  (Feb 2) |
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Feb 2 · A team of scientists and engineers have landed in Antarctica to test a drone that will help experts forecast the impacts of climate change. The autonomous plane will map areas of the continent that have been out of bounds to researchers. It has been put to the test in extreme weather around Wales' highest peaks. Its first experiment will survey the mountains under an ice sheet to predict how quickly the ice could melt and feed into global sea-level rise. Scientists want to understand Antarctica better but they are limited by the existing technology. Strong winds, below-freezing temperatures and sudden storms are common. These dangerous conditions, ... Read more ... |
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A US engineer had a shocking plan to improve the climate – burn all coal on Earth - BBC  (Feb 1) |
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Feb 1 · Less than a century ago, people believed setting alight every coal mine on the planet would be good for the climate. The fact we've come so far in our understanding since then provides hope for the future, argues historian Thomas Moynihan. Not a week goes by without a steady stream of headlines conveying our worsening climate predicament. There are stories about lack of preparedness, about perverse incentives, about political inaction and record-breaking metrics, or about the brute complexity of the problem. Swirling together, these meld into a general sense of intractability. Given this now-familiar news diet, it's sometimes difficult to maintain optimism when it ... Read more ... |
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Mass tree planting to recreate lost rainforest - BBC  (Jan 29) |
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Jan 29 · The National Trust plans to create vast new areas of temperate rainforest in the south-west of England. More than 100,000 trees will be planted in north Devon to create swathes of humid woodland that will be home to plants facing extinction. Experts say the area's heavy rainfall and high humidity levels provide a unique moisture-rich environment. Other projects to recreate the lost rainforests of Britain are already ongoing. Temperate rainforests once covered large areas of the western coast of Britain. But the habitats have deteriorated due to air pollution, invasive species and diseases and are now one of the most endangered in the UK. It ... Read more ... |
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Japan Moon lander wakes up and resumes mission - BBC  (Jan 28) |
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Jan 28 · Japan's Moon lander has resumed operations after being shut for a week due to a power supply issue. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said it re-established contact with the lander Sunday night, indicating that the glitch had been fixed. Its solar cells are working again after a shift in lighting conditions allowed it to catch sunlight, the agency said. It could not generate power when it landed on 20 January as the solar cells pointed away from the Sun. With the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) spacecraft, Japan became only the fifth country to achieve a soft touchdown on the Moon after the US, the former Soviet Union, China and ... Read more ... |
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World's largest cruise ship sets sail from Miami - BBC  (Jan 27) |
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Jan 27 · The world's largest cruise ship has set sail from Miami, Florida, on its maiden voyage, but there are concerns about the vessel's methane emissions. The 365m-long (1,197 ft) Icon of the Seas has 20 decks and can house a maximum of 7,600 passengers. It is owned by Royal Caribbean Group. The vessel is going on a seven-day island-hopping voyage in the Caribbean. Environmentalists warn the liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered ship will leak harmful methane into the air. Built at a shipyard in Turku, Finland, the Bahamas-registered ship has seven swimming pools and six water slides. It cost $2bn (£1.6bn) to build and also has more than 40 ... Read more ... |
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Mars crash ends Nasa helicopter Ingenuity's mission - BBC  (Jan 25) |
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Jan 25 · Nasa's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which made history by achieving the first powered flight on another world, has suffered mission-ending damage. In a statement, Nasa said the aircraft was forced to perform an "emergency landing" that damaged its rotors. The space agency's Bill Nelson said the aircraft was "the little helicopter that could" and had racked up far more flights than had been intended. He said Ingenuity had "paved the way for future flight in our Solar System". Ingenuity is said to remain "upright" but images showed that "one or more of its rotor blades" were damaged and it was "no longer capable of flight". Nasa said the ... Read more ... |
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Stricken Japanese Moon mission landed on its nose - BBC  (Jan 25) |
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Jan 25 · Japan's Moon lander ended up on its nose when it made its historic touchdown on the lunar surface. The first picture of the stricken Slim spacecraft shows it rotated 90 degrees from how it should have come to rest. This will go some way to explaining the difficulties it has had in generating the electricity needed to operate. The image was captured by the small baseball-sized robot called Sora-Q that was ejected from Slim moments before touchdown last Saturday. "An abnormality in the main engine affected the landing attitude of the spacecraft," the Japanese space agency Jaxa said in a statement. It seems one of the two big thrusters on Slim (Smart ... Read more ... |
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Amazon's record drought driven by climate change - BBC  (Jan 24) |
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Jan 24 · One of our planet's most vital defences against global warming is itself being ravaged by climate change. It was the main driver of the Amazon rainforest's worst drought in at least half a century, according to a new study. Often described as the "lungs of the planet", the Amazon plays a key role in removing warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But rapid deforestation has left it more vulnerable to weather extremes. While droughts in the Amazon are not uncommon, last year's event was "exceptional", the researchers say. In October, the Rio Negro - one of the world's largest rivers - reached its lowest recorded level near Manaus ... Read more ... |
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Climate change behind extreme Amazon drought: study - BBC  (Jan 24) |
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Jan 24 · One of our planet's most vital defences against global warming is itself being ravaged by climate change. It was the main driver of the Amazon rainforest's worst drought in at least half a century, according to a new study. Often described as the "lungs of the planet", the Amazon plays a key role in removing warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But rapid deforestation has left it more vulnerable to weather extremes. While droughts in the Amazon are not uncommon, last year's event was "exceptional", the researchers say. In October, the Rio Negro - one of the world's largest rivers - reached its lowest recorded level near Manaus ... Read more ... |
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Four new emperor penguin groups found by satellite - BBC  (Jan 23) |
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Jan 23 · Four new emperor penguin colonies have been identified in Antarctica from satellite imagery. It brings the number of known nesting sites around the White Continent to 66. With the discoveries, scientists believe they now know the whereabouts of all the world's remaining breeding pairs. It's vital information for conservationists monitoring a species that's under increasing pressure as a result of climate change. Emperors court, mate, lay and hatch eggs, and then bring up their young on the sea-ice connected to the coast - so-called fast ice. But this type of ice has diminished in parts of Antarctica and become more variable, certainly in ... Read more ... |
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Japan hopes sunlight can save stricken Moon lander - BBC  (Jan 22) |
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Jan 22 · Japan may yet manage to salvage its Moon lander, the country's space agency Jaxa says - if sunlight hits it in the right place. The Slim spacecraft was turned off just three hours after its historic lunar touchdown on Saturday to save power. Engineers had realised its solar cells were pointing west, away from the Sun, and could not generate electricity. But the mission team is now hopeful the situation could improve as lighting conditions shift. "If sunlight hits the Moon from the west in the future, we believe there's a possibility of power generation, and we're currently preparing for restoration," the Jaxa statement read. The Slim ... Read more ... |
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Japan lands on Moon but glitch threatens mission - BBC  (Jan 19) |
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Jan 19 · A Japanese robot has successfully touched down on the Moon but problems with its solar power system mean the mission may live for just a few hours. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) put itself gently on the lunar surface near an equatorial crater. The feat made the Asian nation only the fifth country to soft-land on Earth's natural satellite, after the US, the Soviet Union, China and India. Engineers are now battling to save the mission, however. For reasons not yet fully understood, the craft's solar cells will not generate electricity. This leaves Slim totally reliant on its batteries and these will eventually discharge. When ... Read more ... |
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Japan mission is latest effort to land on the Moon - BBC  (Jan 18) |
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Jan 18 · Japan is set to make the latest attempt at a soft touch-down on the Moon. Its Slim (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) mission will aim for a gentle slope, close to an equatorial crater called Shioli. The bid follows the failure this month of a private American company to reach the lunar surface. Statistically, it's proven very hard to land on Earth's natural satellite safely. Only about a half of all attempts have succeeded. Japan's space agency (Jaxa) hopes the precision navigation technologies built into Slim will stack the odds in its favour. Those technologies are behind the mission's nickname of "Moon Sniper". The ... Read more ... |
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US Moon mission on course for fiery destruction - BBC  (Jan 17) |
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Jan 17 · The US company that was hoping to land on the Moon will bring its mission home to destruction in the coming hours. Astrobotic says its Peregrine spacecraft will be directed to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up. The lander suffered a major propellant leak shortly after launching from Florida on its Vulcan rocket last week. Although engineers were able to stabilise the situation, the loss of oxidiser meant a safe touch-down on the lunar surface could never be attempted. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic has decided to dispose of the craft, rather than let it wander aimlessly through space, posing a collision hazard. "Astrobotic has positioned the ... Read more ... |
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