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In anticipation of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars Thursday, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is taking an opportunity to slam space agencies and governments for using billions of dollars to visit other planets when our own’s suffering. Thunberg, 18, released a satirical tourism ad for the Red Planet that is aimed at the ‘one percent,’ … Read more
In anticipation of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars Thursday, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is taking an opportunity to slam space agencies and governments for using billions of dollars to visit other planets when our own’s suffering. Thunberg, 18, released a satirical tourism ad for the Red Planet that is aimed at the ‘one percent,’ … Read more
All across the northern hemisphere from Athens, Greece, to Athens, Texas, snowfalls have blanketed streets and temperatures have plunged to freezing in places where winter usually requires no more than a jacket. Snow has covered nearly three quarters of the United States, to an average depth of six inches, compared to 35.5 per cent last year … Read more
All across the northern hemisphere from Athens, Greece, to Athens, Texas, snowfalls have blanketed streets and temperatures have plunged to freezing in places where winter usually requires no more than a jacket. Around the North Pole, winter’s ultra-cold air is usually kept bottled up 15 to 30 miles high. That’s the polar vortex, which spins … Read more
Met Office ‘to give forecasts from abroad’ as £1.2 billion energy-guzzling supercomputer risks torpedoing the service’s public stance on fighting climate change Sources say the Met Office will house a new supercomputer outside the UK There are fears it will use so much energy it will hinder stance on climate change It is hoped supercomputer … Read more
Met Office ‘to give forecasts from abroad’ as £1.2 billion energy-guzzling supercomputer risks torpedoing the service’s public stance on fighting climate change Sources say the Met Office will house a new supercomputer outside the UK There are fears it will use so much energy it will hinder stance on climate change It is hoped supercomputer … Read more
Great white sharks are being forced to move into cooler waters due to climate change – but the move is putting local endangered wildlife at risk, experts warm. Researchers from Monterey Bay Aquarium tracking the movement of young Great White Sharks noticed dramatic changes in their movements from 2014 onwards. They found that following a … Read more
Waves crashing and water churning are typical sounds humans may hear from the ocean, but creatures that call it home are being objectified to noises from ships, drilling and even surfing – and it is becoming unbearable. A team of 25 international scientists analyzed more than 10,000 papers of marine acoustics starting back to the … Read more
Bad news for hay fever sufferers! Pollen seasons start 20 days earlier, are 10 days longer, and feature 21% more pollen than in 1990 – with climate change to blame Researchers analysed measurements taken from 60 pollen stations in the US The results revealed that pollen seasons today start around 20 days earlier They suggest … Read more
Political civil war has broken out in the Johnson family — and not for the first time. The Prime Minister’s father, 80-year-old Stanley, has denounced the Government’s decision not to block the construction of Woodhouse Colliery, Britain’s first new deep coal mine in over 30 years. Last week, Johnson Sr pronounced this to be ‘a … Read more