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.

Mars Curiosity

Methane levels spiked in Mars, raising prospect of life on the Red Planet

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The Curiosity robot’s tunable laser spectrometer in the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) has unequivocally detected an episodic spike in methane concentrations in the...
Planet Earth Global Warming

Global warming will speed up after cool Pacific Ocean warms up again

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The Pacific Ocean is coming to the end of its cooler period, which gave global warming a “false pause” of more than a decade,...
A Bowhead Whale

Mystery bowhead whale spotted off British coast for the first time ever

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Bowhead whales had never been seen off the British coast, that is until professional diver Anna Cawthray saw a young one off the Isles...
Cyanobacteria image

Our water is becoming progressively poisoned with algae, raising risk of diseases

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Since the 1800s, there has been an explosion of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) populations in the lakes of Europe and North America, which threatens to...
A partial solar eclipse

Solar eclipse across whole of UK on March 20th, more pronounced in the north

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The Moon will cast its shadow over Northern Europe on March 20th, 2015, completely blacking out (total solar eclipse) the region between Iceland and...
Ancient Britain

Britain and Europe traded 8000 years ago, much earlier than thought

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Ancient Britain was not isolated and cut off from mainland Europe 8,000 years ago, as previously thought, researchers from the Universities of Warwick, Birmingham,...
Blue rayed limpet

Blue-rayed limpet holds secret for windscreen transparent displays with no internal light source

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A tiny mollusk, the blue-rayed limpet, has natural optical structures which could be used for transparent displays on screens, including car windscreens (US English:...
Pacific

Cooler Pacific Ocean giving global warming a “false pause”, scientists warn

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The reason global warming has slowed down is the cooler Pacific Ocean, which for the last two decades has been Earth’s air conditioner –...
Dust from Sahara to Amazon

Amazon rainforest gets nutrients from the Sahara, millions of tons annually

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The Amazon rainforest, a dense green mass of humid jungle, receives millions of tons of nutrient-rich Saharan dust that is blown over every year....
ISS

Russia commits to International Space Station until 2024, then plans Moon missions

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Russia said it is committed to operations on the International Space Station until 2024, after which it plans to do robotic and manned missions...