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Back to SearchKeep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal
For the world to have a decent chance of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, 90 per cent of remaining coal reserves and 60% of unexploit…
4 years, 6 months ago
Hurricane season intensifies
When hurricane Ida struck the coast of Louisiana last weekend, almost to the day that Katrina did 16 years ago, comparisons between the two events we…
4 years, 6 months ago
World’s first DNA Covid-Vaccine
Indian authorities have approved the world’s first DNA-based Covid vaccine for emergency use. Not all the data that has led to the opening of the pha…
4 years, 6 months ago
Seismic citizen science in Hispaniola
The epicentre of the tragic earthquake in Haiti last week was just 100km from that of the even more deadly 2010 one. Unlike then, a network of small …
4 years, 7 months ago
Methane - a climate solution?
The latest IPCC assessment raised alarm about the rate at which manmade emissions are contributing to climate change. Much of the focus for action is…
4 years, 7 months ago
Record-shattering weather
July 2021 saw temperatures in the western US and Canada smash previous records by 5 degrees. And that’s what we should expect, according to a study p…
4 years, 7 months ago
The earliest traces of animal life on earth
Do rocks found in Canada show animal life 350 million years older than any found before? And, delving to the core of Mars, the guts of cats, and into…
4 years, 7 months ago
Your molecular machinery, now in 3D
Back in November it was announced that an AI company called DeepMind had near enough cracked the problem of protein folding - that is they had manage…
4 years, 8 months ago
Science when the funding dries up
This week the UK parliament voted to accept the Government’s continued cap on Official Development Aid. This disappointed many researchers around the…
4 years, 8 months ago
Human induced climate change heats up fast
Scientists say the record-breaking Pacific North-West heatwave of recent weeks must have been caused by human induced climate change, but as Geert Ja…
4 years, 8 months ago