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How space exploration can improve life on Earth | Leigh Phillips

admin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:00:01 +0000

There is a cynical, ‘anti-space’ ideology emerging, especially on some parts of the left. But this is misguided

John F Kennedy once called space-faring “the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which Man has ever embarked”. We go to space because, he said – like George Mallory said of his reason to conquer Everest – “it is there.”

More than 100 landfills in England may be leaching ‘highly hazardous’ waste

admin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 05:00:56 +0000

Inadequate record keeping means councils do not know whether former waste sites contain toxic substances

More than 100 old landfills in England that may be contaminated with toxic substances have flooded since 2000, potentially posing a serious safety risk, it can be revealed.

Some of these former dumps containing possibly hazardous materials sit directly next to public parks and housing estates with hundreds of households, the analysis by the Greenpeace-funded journalism website Unearthed , in partnership with the Guardian, found.

Pacific island states urge rich countries to expedite plans to cut emissions

admin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 04:00:54 +0000

Developed countries pressed to submit national plans well before Cop30 as time runs out to avoid 1.5C temperature rise

Rich countries are dragging their feet on producing new plans to combat the climate crisis, thereby putting the poor into greater danger, some of the world’s most vulnerable nations have warned.

All governments are supposed to publish new plans this year on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but so far only a small majority have done so, and some of the plans submitted have been inadequate to the scale of action needed.

Six things we learned about the future of energy security at UK summit

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:32:55 +0000

Critical minerals, nuclear power and the ‘weaponisation’ of energy supplies were discussed at international conference

The UK and the International Energy Agency gathered ministers and high-level officials from 60 countries to Lancaster House in London for two days of talks on the future of energy security this week. The EU was out in force, the US sent a top official, but China stayed away. Here’s what we learned.

Britain will find ‘common ground’ with US on energy policy, says Miliband

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:52:43 +0000

Energy secretary says countries must work together during conference at which US delegate called net zero ‘dangerous’

Britain will find “common ground” with the US on energy and the economy including on nuclear power, despite differences over climate policy, the UK energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has pledged.

‘A sweeping catastrophe’: 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, a photo exhibit honors Mississippi victims

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:00:36 +0000

Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers captures the grief and resilience of survivors in the Magnolia state

Twenty years ago this August, the United States Gulf coast was irrevocably changed when Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest and costliest storms to ever hit the country, made landfall. Making landfall as a strong category 3, the storm, which was so vast it stretched the length of the Mississippi Gulf coast all the way into Alabama, hit the Mississippi-Louisiana coastal border before continuing northward.

Week in wildlife: wild ponies, a playful jaguar and penguin chicks taking their first swim

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:00:27 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Drax needs a better policeman

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 04:01:23 +0000

Public confidence in the UK biomass industry is low – robust checks are needed to ensure every wood pellet its power plant burns is sustainable

Lifesize herd of puppet animals begins climate action journey from Africa to Arctic Circle

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 04:00:26 +0000

The Herds project from the team behind Little Amal will travel 20,000km taking its message on environmental crisis across the world

Hundreds of life-size animal puppets have begun a 20,000km (12,400 mile) journey from central Africa to the Arctic Circle as part of an ambitious project created by the team behind Little Amal, the giant puppet of a Syrian girl that travelled across the world.

Elon Musk’s xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 02:09:59 +0000

Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents receive anonymous leaflets that downplay pollution dangers