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

Massive bulging cloud like plume seen above Mars horizon baffles astronomers

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A huge bulge, the highest cloud-like plume ever observed, was spotted above the “terminator” of Mars, the boundary between day and night on the...
Mars One

100 Mars voyage hopefuls announced today by Mars One

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It started off with 202,586 applicants hoping to join the one-way voyage to Mars and being part of a permanent settlement, but now stands...
Asteroid impact

Twelve horrible ways life on Earth could end listed by experts

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Scientists from the University of Oxford and the Global Challenges Foundation have listed 12 potentially catastrophic global risks that could destroy human life on...
Alan Robock

Spy agencies using weather warfare against other nations alarms climate expert

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The prospect of spy agencies such as the CIA using weaponized weather to destabilize hostile nations worries Professor Alan Robock, from the Department of...
Welder at LHC

New particle more exciting than Higgs boson may be detected in 2015

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A new particle that is even more exciting than the Higgs boson could be detected this year, a Large Hadron Collider scientist said at...
Black Hole

Black hole impact discovered by Interstellar movie visual effects team

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The team that did the visual effects in Christopher Nolan’s epic Oscar-nominated movie Interstellar have, through their computer code, provided astronomers new insights into...
12 potential catastrophes

Twelve risks that could destroy humankind

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A report has listed the twelve greatest global risks that could kill off humans, ranging from an asteroid collision, nuclear war, a global pandemic,...
High sea fishing

Banning fishing in high seas would benefit Canada plus several other nations

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Canada along with several other countries would be better off if fishing in the high seas were banned, a study led by researchers from...
saturn_titan-moon

Titan submarine to explore lake in Saturn moon

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An amazing submarine has been designed by NASA scientists to explore one of the large lakes in Titan, the largest of several moons that orbit...
Mount Pinatubo 1991

Weaponized weather inquiry alarms Rutgers University climate scientist

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A climate expert was alarmed when a mysterious organization claiming to be part of the CIA asked him whether he would be able to...