Twenty-two global leading experts held an urgent virtual workshop, convened by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), about the connection between the degradation of nature and increasing pandemic risks. The resulting report (which you can read here) states that future pandemics will become more frequent, spread more rapidly, do more damage to
Month: October 2020
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses students during a town hall at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, November 12, 2018. Anushree Fadnavis | Reuters Shares of Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Amazon remained down in premarket trading Friday after the companies released quarterly reports that failed to wow Wall Street. Here’s what’s
A NASA spacecraft tucked more than 2 pounds of asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth after losing some of its precious loot because of a jammed lid, scientists said Thursday. They won’t know the precise amount of the cosmic haul from asteroid Bennu, more than 200 million miles (322 million kilometres) away,
A strong earthquake of magnitude 7 has hit holiday hotspots in Turkey and Greece, destroying a number of buildings and leading to a tsunami warning. The epicentre of the tremor was in the Aegean Sea some 11 miles (17 km) off the coast of Turkey’s Izmir province, at a depth of 10 miles (16km). It
More than 560,000 people had coronavirus in England last week with the number of infections rising steeply among secondary school children, figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest. The figures also suggest around 1 in 100 people had COVID-19 in England for the week between 17 and 23 October, as the number of cases
On Halloween, a rare Blue Moon will appear in the sky for the first time since 2001. A Blue Moon occurs when there is more than one full moon during a month. NASA says that it coincides with Halloween every 19 years. The Moon isn’t really blue, but will be in full bloom to make
Donald Trump has been making increasingly desperate pleas to one crucial group of voters – but America’s “suburban housewives” seem determined to send him packing from the White House. The US president‘s last-minute appeals – and even his use of the phrase “suburban housewives” – appear to have backfired spectacularly in the closing weeks of
Britain’s vast fund management sector is holding its breath for the outcome of a key vote on Friday amid fears that thousands of industry jobs could be forcibly relocated to the EU after the end of the Brexit transition period. Sky News has learnt that the Investment Association (IA) has decided to abstain on a
Sky History has axed its new woodworking show The Chop after producers said a contestant’s tattoos “could be connected to far-right ideologies”. The reality show – which was in the style of The Great British Bake Off – was on the hunt for “Britain’s top woodworker”, and featured 10 contestants taking on challenges in Epping
new rogue Earth-sized plant has been discovered by scientists at University of Warsaw. This is said to be the smallest free-floating planet found up until now, and it is sized somewhere between Earth and Mars. Rogue planets are essentially not bound by any star and float freely in space. They are adrift in space after
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has told Sky News he was “disappointed” in his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn’s response to a damning antisemitism report – but has insisted there is “no reason for a civil war” in the party. Mr Corbyn was suspended from Labour on Thursday – a move he condemned as “political intervention” –
In the tightly contested state of Florida, emotions are running high. Outside a Joe Biden rally in Tampa, small but vocal groups of Democrats and Republicans are facing off. “Why are you so dumb?” a Biden supporter shouts out of his car window, with an equally furious Trump fan yelling back. Image: Outside a Joe
A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Jessica Rinaldi | Reuters Exxon said Thursday that it intends to reduce its U.S. staff by around 1,900 employees as the energy giant continues to see its operations pressured by the coronavirus pandemic. The layoffs will occur through a mix of voluntary and involuntary programs.
October 29th, 2020 by Guest Contributor Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists.By Elliott Negin If you aren’t already paying attention to energy storage, you should be. While most people admittedly don’t get giddy at the thought of a lithium-ion battery, energy experts and policymakers do, and they are becoming increasingly excited about the potential role
2:15 PM ET This year’s Champions League compressed group stage is a pedal-to-the-metal sprint — three straight midweek contests, two weeks off, then three more midweek affairs. The odds are shifting and swaying constantly, and they will do so again next week. One-third of the way through, let’s step back and see what has and
Tesla is apparently starting to test discounted rates at Supercharger stations in order to offset expensive peak demand charges. Do you think it’s going to work? Electric utilities are making large energy users pay ‘demand charges’ during peak use that can be quite taxing, especially to charging station operators. Charging stations by nature suffer from
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