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.

Sir David Attenborough climate change with green frog

David Attenborough from climate change skeptic to evangelist

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Sir David Attenborough, who not that long ago was a climate change skeptic, is today an evangelist, i.e. he is 100% convinced climate change...
Sir David Attenborough approaching 90

David Attenborough calls on scientific brains to stop global warming

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Sir David Attenborough calls on the scientific brains of the world to gather and find a way of hitting global warming on the head...
Giant Panda

Pandas express love, happiness and flirt using panda-speak

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Giant pandas have their own language, which they use to express physical attraction from male-to-female, flirtatious responses, unhappiness, contentment and hunger, says a group...
Groundwater

Earth’s hidden groundwater mapped for the first time

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Earth’s hidden groundwater has been mapped for the first time by a team of hydrologists from Canada, the US and Germany. Their findings revealed...
Elephant shrew yawning

Elephant shrews charm visitors with funny expressions

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Two Sengis (Macroscelides proboscideus), also known as round-eared elephant shrews, have charmed visitors at Chester Zoo during their debut with adorable expressions as they...
Elephant shrew yawning

Adorable elephant-shrews make their debut at Chester Zoo

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Two round-eared elephant-shrews, also known as Sengis (Macroscelides proboscideus), have gone on show at Chester Zoo in England for the first time, and have...
China Climate Change

China’s major infrastructure projects threatened by climate change, says top meteorologist

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Some of China’s major infrastructure projects are threatened by climate change, says head of the Meteorological Administration Zheng Guoguang, who added that his country’s...
Bank of England

Bank of England Brexit project mistakenly sent to the Guardian newspaper

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Secret Bank of England plans regarding a possible Brexit – Britain leaving the EU – have come to the public eye after a senior...

AGL to close all coal-fired power stations by 2050

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AGL Energy, one of Australia’s leading power generators, said that it will close all existing coal-fired power stations in its portfolio by 2050, a...
Thawing arctic

Giant carbon release from Arctic as planet warms, scientists warn

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Huge amounts of ancient carbon stored in Arctic permafrost are being transformed into carbon dioxide and released into the atmosphere because temperatures are rising,...