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Climate campaigners win Heathrow expansion case

Holland-Kaye said opposition to enlarging Heathrow on environmental grounds is misplaced. The Government is not appealing against the ruling. "We have not f...

NASA unveils InSight lander's findings on Mars

Scientists still have their fingers crossed for "the Big One". But there are magnetizing ancient rocks which are now around 200 feet below the surface of Mars. ...

Ride-hailing increases emissions, contributes to climate pollution, study finds

The researchers conducted an analysis of pollution from ride-hailing vehicles across seven major USA cities, finding that these services generate 69 percent mor...

Here’s how the Moon looks in 4K resolution

If you ever wanted to see the moon from the perspective of the Apollo 13 astronauts, this is probably what you were waiting for. NASA said the astronauts ...

China bans trade, consumption of wild animals due to coronavirus

China has introduced a complete ban on the commerce and consumption of untamed animals on Monday because of the corona virus. Deputies to the 13th Nation...

Astronomer Discovers Mini-Moon Orbiting Earth

These objects rarely pose a threat to Earth, and even if an object the size of 2020 CD3 were to tumble toward Earth rather than flying back out into space, fric...

Antarctica's Eagle Island has large-scale snowmelt amid record temperatures

In addition to the record warmth, an iceberg twice the size of Washington, D.C., broke off a glacier there . These high temperatures lasted till 13 February....

Oldest green seaweed ever discovered may be ancestor of most land plants

The micro-fossil seaweeds - a form of algae known as Proterocladus antiquus - are barely visible to the naked eyed at 2 millimeters in length, or roughly th...

Humans in Asia survived Toba super-eruption 74,000 years ago

But it may not have been the global catastrophe we once thought it was. The Toba super-eruption was one of the largest volcanic events over the last two milli...

Branson's Virgin Galactic posts quarterly loss of $73 million

Those flights took off from Mojave, California, where Virgin Galactic's manufacturing subsidiary, The Spaceship Company, is based. So far, the company has 600 f...

Unique Non-oxygen Breathing Animal Discovered

For the scientists, understanding how the H. salminicola is surviving without oxygen is still a mystery. "Aerobic respiration was thought to be ubiquitous i...

NASA robotic lander InSight confirms quakes on Mars

The two primary components of dust devils are present around InSight in abundance - thousands of convective vortices and plenty of dust. The two largest...

Equinor Dumps Great Australian Bight Oil Drilling

NOPSEMA accepted Equinor's environment plan for petroleum drilling in the Great Australian Bight on December 18, 2019. Equinor is now the third oil and gas co...

Mars Lander Confirms 'Marsquakes' And Aftershocks On Red Planet

According to their paper, Mars is encased by a regolith layer just a few metres in depth, under which a much deeper crustal layer extends down to 8 and 11 kilom...

Coal exports likely in 2050: Albanese

The political problem of the "drastic climate extinction style solutions to climate change" is convincing the Australian public to pay, even though Labor sugg...

Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician Portrayed in Hidden Figures, Dies at 101

She was one of the first African-American women to work for NASA , and helped put Americans on the moon. Glenn wasn't keen on putting his life in the hands o...

MI panel to consider limits on 'forever chemicals' in drinking water

EPA will specifically regulate two compounds, PFOA and PFOS, which are banned in the US. Now, the EPA suggests water shouldn't have more than 70 parts per trill...

New polymer £20 featuring painter Turner enters circulation

The new £20 is the 3rd plastic banknote to be issued in the United Kingdom after the fiver featuring Winston Churchill - introduced in 2016 - and the tenner fea...

Queensland and Northern Territory preparing for wild weather amid Cyclone Esther threat

The tropical low in the Gulf's centre is predicted to strengthen into a category 1 system overnight, the Bureau of Meteorology says. It's likely the system wi...

MIT Shows How to Deflect Killer Asteroid, Report

Space rocks have rained down on Earth long before humans were here, and they're not going to stop now. Tracking an asteroid and working out ways to deflect it i...

Met Office warning for ice and snow which could affect Flintshire

Conditions are expected to improve throughout the morning as temperatures rise. He warned snow and wintry showers would make it "a bit hard for people" on the...

[NASA Records 'Hottest Temperature' in Antarctica, Shows Shocking Images of Melting Snow]

According to the report, "The warm temperatures arrived on February 5 and continued until February 13, 2020". NASA's Earth Observatory has released two phot...

SpaceX hoping to send tourists higher up into space than ever

The cost of launching a Falcon 9 rocket is $ 62 million, according to publicly available figures, then there will be the cost of building a fresh Dragon capsule...

Fossil fuels cause more methane emissions than estimated

Tiny bubbles of historical air trapped in ice cores from Greenland recommend we have been critically overestimating the pure cycle of methane, whereas vastly un...

PM Johnson says looking forward to meeting Trump in June

Media reported Sabisky was hired following an unusual appeal earlier this year from Johnson's senior adviser Dominic Cummings for " weirdos and misfits with od...

NSW to ease water restrictions after heavy rains

Water restrictions in Greater Sydney are expected to be relaxed to Level 1 on the 1 of March as Sydney Dam levels reach 80 per cent following recent rainfall. S...

MIT Develops Guide to Deflect Killer Asteroids

Thankfully, more recent observations have confirmed that the asteroid will sling by Earth without incident in both 2029 and 2036. Scientists at MIT are report...

Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to climate change fund

He's committed $10 billion to start the fund, making it one of the largest charitable pledges to date. This global initiative will fund scientists, activists, N...

SpaceX will launch private citizens into orbit

We reached out to SpaceX for more information about the trip, and they connected Mashable to a Space Adventures spokesperson who said trip details will be fin...

Humans responsible for much higher methane emissions than estimated

The findings are particularly worrying as although methane naturally breaks down quickly in the atmosphere (relative to CO2), it's also a very powerful greenhou...