Warnings issued over toxic caterpillars
The oak processionary moth caterpillar can cause breathing difficulties and skin rashes.
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How NASA Uses Light to Detect Waste From Mines
1 min read How NASA Uses Light to Detect Waste From Mines Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Science Agriculture Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at Work Earth…
The long voyage helped a Times journalist better understand his late father.
A chance discovery aboard the research vessel led to a kind of reconnection.
‘Flavour is under siege’: how food in America lost its taste
In the last century, industrialized farming has killed off delicious food – but a brigade of chefs, breeders and farmers are fighting to bring it back Bill Tracy is clearly not one to brag, but after a while, it seems…
Growing Stem Cells in Space to Improve Cancer and Disease Treatments
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir works on InSPA-StemCellEX-H2 inside the Life Sciences Glovebox. Microgravity samples will be frozen and returned to Earth for further analysis of stem cell expansion in space. NASA Expedition 74 astronauts aboard the International Space Station are…
How much suffering do invasive species cause? Researchers are measuring that
Avian vampire flies (Philornis downsi) were not discovered in the Galápagos Islands for almost three decades after they were thought to have arrived from mainland Ecuador in the 1960s. Even then, the first were found by accident. Birgit Fessl, a…
Irish datacentres have increased household bills by hundreds of euros, report finds
Growing fleet of datacentres last year used 22% of the country’s electricity Energy demand by datacentres in Ireland has added hundreds of euros to household electricity bills in a pattern that could be replicated across Europe, according to a new…
How Utility Companies and States Shaped America’s Clean Energy Transition
A new book examines “renewable portfolio standard” laws and the ways utilities drove the bus. By Dan Gearino Not long ago, the rise of U.S. renewable energy was largely tied to state policies that required or encouraged utilities to meet…
Blair’s fossil fuel ideas ‘bizarre’ in face of energy and climate crises, experts say
Energy specialists say abandoning net zero and increasing oil and gas drilling would cause more instability for Britons Abandoning net zero and drilling for more oil and gas in the North Sea would be a massive setback for the UK…
Ministers in talks over shelving carbon tax on fertiliser to curb food inflation
Exclusive: Package of measures discussed with farmers, including pause on duty due to come into effect next year Ministers are in discussions about suspending a carbon tax on fertilisers, due to come into effect early next year, in an effort…