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Nasa team focused on getting Moon mission astronauts back to Earth safely
17+ hour, 6+ min ago (521+ words) Nasa officials are ensuring "they don't take their eye off the ball" as astronauts near their return to Earth after travelling deeper into space than anyone before. The Artemis II crew, who successfully completed a test flight around the Moon,…...
Solar saved Europe "3bn in fossil fuel imports in March: Which country is leading the way?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (887+ words) Solar is helping to rescue Europe from the crippling costs of fossil fuel imports, as the war on Iran sends oil and gas prices soaring. Brent crude, which is used as the worldwide benchmark for oil prices, has increased by…...
Alert issued as plume of volcanic ash reaches West Coast
2+ week, 5+ day ago (298+ words) Ash from a volcanic eruption in Russia reached the West Coast this weekend, prompting an advisory for pilots flying over Washington and southern British Columbia. The volcano began erupting last week, sending plumes of ash more than 11 kilometres into the…...
You can't live without us': Have fossil fuel giants gone back on their green promises?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (801+ words) Oil majors have been accused of "quietly abandoning" their climate pledges in an attempt to justify the continued use of polluting fossil fuels. New research from Clean Creatives, a project for climate-conscious PR and advert professionals, has tracked how Big…...
Yukon University Earth Sceinces team builds interactive online geology tours
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (56+ words) Yahoo News Canada At Yukon University, the Earth Sciences team has built an interactive online tool that lets students explore glaciers, ice fields and even volcanoes, all from their laptops. It's a virtual window into northern landscapes designed to spark…...
A former dump sits near a world-class fossil site. These volunteers want it cleaned up
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (18+ words) Yahoo News Canada...
Sensors placed under city to measure geothermal heating potential
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (352+ words) The 100 sensors, or seismic nodes, are being placed across a mixture of public and private green spaces to record the natural and manmade vibrations from waves, wind and traffic. They will remain in place for one to two months, and…...
Solar and wind overtake fossil fuels in the EU for the first time. Can the power grid keep up?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (22+ words) Yahoo News Canada...
Japan taps rare earth-rich mud from deep-sea floor to cut reliance on China
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (414+ words) Sediment containing rare earth was retrieved from ocean depths of 6, 000 metres (20, 000 feet) on a Japanese test mission, the government said Monday, as it seeks to curb dependence on China for the valuable minerals. Japan says the mission was the world's…...
Trump covets mineral-rich Greenland, but what natural resources does it actually have?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (888+ words) Donald Trump has made clear he covets Greenland. Now he claims to have secured the "framework" of a future deal, to address defence on the island - a deal that he says includes rights to rare earth minerals. So what natural…...