700 million people produce 50% of carbon emissions, 3.5 billion emit just 10%
The world’s richest 10% - 700 million people – produce 50% of all carbon emissions, compared to the poorest 3.5 billion who produce just...
Migratory birds at serious risk of extinction due to habitat loss along flight paths
Migratory birds are at serious risk of extinction due to the loss of **habitat and lack of protection along their flight paths, a team...
Superflare could knock out electricity supplies sending us back to pre-industrial era
A solar superflare could knock out our global electricity supply and send us back to pre-industrial times, with households using candles for lighting and...
Artificial intelligence centre launched by the University of Cambridge
An artificial intelligence centre is being launched by the University of Cambridge to explore the challenges and opportunities to humanity, thanks to a generous...
Vikings not driven to colonize Greenland because of warmer weather, study suggests
The belief that 10th-century Vikings were driven or encouraged to colonize Greenland because of unusually warmer weather is probably wrong – the climate was...
Moon and Jupiter seen very close in night sky
If you got up super early on Friday morning you would have seen the Moon and Jupiter providing the night sky with a stunning...
Electricity generation requires right mix of green energy technologies, says UN report
Electricity generation will require the right mix of green energy technologies if we want to reduce the global impact of pollution for our children...
Tim Peake to do marathon in space, first astronaut to run to do so
UK astronaut Major Tim Peake plans to do a 26.2-mile marathon aboard the ISS in space and become the first astronaut to run that...
Boris Johnson and other mayors in green solutions for cities
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, along with eighty other mega-city mayors from across the world, have been listening to how cities could use...
Solar superflare possible and could wreck our electricity supply
A solar superflare, which is thousands of times more powerful and devastating than normal flares from the Sun, could destroy our electricity supply, GPS...