Science / Environment / Energy

This Market Business News category includes all of our articles that are related to science or the environment. This includes research projects in science and events that have an impact on the environment (be it beneficial or detrimental). This page is where you will find information on what is happening in the renewable energy industry, news to do with the electric or hybrid vehicle market, and information about electricity consumption, etc.

Carbon Emissions report by Oxfam during Paris Climate Talks

700 million people produce 50% of carbon emissions, 3.5 billion emit just 10%

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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 in trouble says study

Migratory birds at serious risk of extinction due to habitat loss along flight paths

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Migratory birds are at serious risk of extinction due to the loss of **habitat and lack of protection along their flight paths, a team...
Strong superflare could cause a mass extinction on Earth

Superflare could knock out electricity supplies sending us back to pre-industrial era

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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 good or bad for us

Artificial intelligence centre launched by the University of Cambridge

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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 led by Eric the Red

Vikings not driven to colonize Greenland because of warmer weather, study suggests

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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 in the night sky early Friday morning

Moon and Jupiter seen very close in night sky

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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 UNEP

Electricity generation requires right mix of green energy technologies, says UN report

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Electricity generation will require the right mix of green energy technologies if we want to reduce the global impact of pollution for our children...
Major Peake to do marathin in space during London race

Tim Peake to do marathon in space, first astronaut to run to do so

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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 photo

Boris Johnson and other mayors in green solutions for cities

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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...
stellar superflare solar superflare

Solar superflare possible and could wreck our electricity supply

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A solar superflare, which is thousands of times more powerful and devastating than normal flares from the Sun, could destroy our electricity supply, GPS...