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.

Prehistoric engravings of hunter gatherer communities

Prehistoric carvings depicted 13,800 year-old hunter-gatherer campsites

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Scientists have discovered fascinating prehistoric rock carvings that depicted hunter-gatherer campsites 13,800 years ago. The archaeologists, from the University of the Basque Country and the...
Fast radio burst hitting Earth from space

Fast radio burst mystery perhaps finally solved, say scientists

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The fast radio burst mystery which has baffled scientists for the past ten years may be finally solved, a team of astronomers and astrophysicists...
Xenokeryx amidalae found in Spain

Strange three-horned giraffe-like animal named after Star Wars queen Amidala

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A strange three-horned, giraffe-like animal with fangs, that lived in Europe 15 million years ago, has been named Xenokeryx amidalae, after Padmé Amidala who...
Tim Peake prepares to go to ISS

British astronaut Tim Peake to spend 1 month longer at ISS

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Major Tim Peake, the British astronaut who blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) on 15th December, will spend one month longer in...
What a superflare would look like on our Sun

Sun superflare with 100 billion megaton bomb force could cause disaster on Earth

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A Sun superflare with the energy equivalent of a 100 billion megaton bomb could cause disaster on Earth – it could severely disrupt our...

British birds one quarter under threat of extinction and placed on Red List

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Over one quarter of the 244 species of British birds are today under threat of extinction and are now of ‘highest conservation concern’, says Birds...
oxygen levels and phytoplankton

Global warming may reduce oxygen levels and we’d all suffocate, study warns

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Global warming could cause Earth’s atmospheric oxygen levels to drop dramatically, due to a change in the temperature of the oceans, and we would...
Oxfam carbon emissions report

Richest 10% produce half carbon emissions, poorest 3.5 billion produce one tenth

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The world’s richest 10% produce about half of all carbon emissions, while the poorest 3.5 billion people account for only one tenth of all...
Slab showing Hunter-gatherer campsites

Hunter-gatherer campsites depicted in 13,800 year-old engraving discovered in Spain

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Hunter-gatherer campsites depicted in a 13,800 year-old schist slab engraving have been discovered in northeastern Spain, according to scientists from the Catalan Institute of...
Sauropods were colossal dinosaurs

Colossal dinosaurs existed in Scotland 170 million years ago

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Colossal dinosaurs existed in Scotland about 170 million years ago, scientists at the University of Edinburgh announced after discovering huge footprints and handprints of...