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Climate change: Why weather changes worry Wales’ ‘wettest town’
By Steffan MessengerBBC Wales Environment Correspondent Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The area around Blaenau Ffestiniog is alongside Egypt’s Pyramids, India’s Taj Mahal and the Grand Canyon as a Unesco World Heritage site Appropriately enough, it’s drizzling on the day we visit the town billed as Wales’ wettest. A grey sky blends in with the …
Science and tech: The app founder inspiring kids
Pearce Jarrett is a machine learning engineer and founder of Gwaan, a motivational fitness app that uses AI technology. The 28-year-old began the app 18 months ago and it has since won a UKRI Young Innovators Award. Fewer than 2% of academic staff working in science, technology, engineering and maths are black according to new …
Amazon rainforest reaching tipping point, researchers say
Commenting, Dr Bonnie Waring of the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London, said: “These latest findings are consistent with the accumulating evidence that the twin pressures of climate change and human exploitation of tropical forests are endangering the world’s largest rainforest, which is home to one out of every 10 species …
Drone cameras record social lives of killer whales
A new study led by the University of Exeter and the Center for Whale Research suggests killer whales may socialise with each other based on age and gender, with younger whales and females more sociable than other groups. The research used drone cameras to study one pod of southern resident killer whales off the US …
Optical illusion of orangutan wins award
A mind-bending photograph of an orangutan with the sky reflected in water has won first prize in the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2021 competition. image copyrightThomas Vijayan The image, by Canadian photographer Thomas Vijayan, is called The World is Going Upside Down. It beat 8,000 entries from around the globe to win the …
Then and now: Pandemic clears the air
In our monthly feature, Then and Now, we reveal some of the ways that planet Earth has been changing against the backdrop of a warming world. Air pollution has long been one of the biggest killers, claiming an estimated seven million victims annually. However, the Covid-19 global pandemic showed how quality we could clear the …
Former miner: Why I’m giving up my coal fire
Stan Renton and his wife Audrey, have been heating their home with coal for their entire married lives. New rules, in England, on the sale of coal for burning in households have recently come into force to try and cut air pollution. People will still be able to use open fires but they will need …
Coronavirus: Training dogs to identify the scent of Covid-19
Researchers have found that the coronavirus has a particular scent and believe that training dogs to identify the virus could contribute to containing the virus in densely populated areas as society reopens. Scientists running the trials have found that the dogs correctly identified 88% of positive cases – meaning, for every 100 cases, the dogs …
Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic waste – study
US-based ExxonMobil is the biggest producer of single-use plastic, the report says, followed by: Dow, Sinopec, Indorama Ventures, Saudi Aramco, PetroChina, LyondellBasell, Reliance Industries, Braskem, Alpek SA de CV, Borealis, Lotte Chemical, INEOS, Total, Jiangsu Hailun Petrochemical, Far Eastern New Century, Formosa Plastics Corporation, China Energy Investment Group, PTT and China Resources. Source link
HS2 high-speed rail project begins underground tunnel
The largest tunnelling machine ever used on a UK rail project is officially starting work. Florence – named after Florence Nightingale – will spend the next three-and-a-half years cutting through the chalk beneath the Chiltern hills in Buckinghamshire. The tunnel will form part of controversial high-speed rail project HS2’s first phase, which will link London …
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