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.

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Global warming’s stationary trend set to end as Pacific warms up again

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Global warming’s stationary trend, which was reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) two years ago, is set to end, as the...
Met Office

Sunniest winter on record, following last year’s wettest, UK

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This winter is set to become the sunniest since records began in 1929, in contrast to last year’s, which was the wettest ever, according...
eclipse

Eclipse of the Sun has European solar power producers worried

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Hundreds of millions of Europeans will experience a solar eclipse ranging from 40% to 97% obscuration on March 20th. Iceland will have a total...
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...
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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:...