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.

Tadpoles

Fanged frog gives birth to tadpoles, does not lay eggs

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There are more than 6,000 species of frogs in the world, but there is only one that we know of that gives birth to...
LHC

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will start working again in March

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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle collider, has undergone a $151 million upgrade and is set to be operational again...
Simulated Universe

Entire universe created on super computers

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Astronomers from Durham University and Leiden University created an entire universe simulation with realistic galaxies on super computers. Their age, mass and size were...
The Bloodhound Project

Supersonic car, the Bloodhound SSC, being assembled for test run

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A team of coders, engineers and rocket scientists is assembling the first car to reach 1000 miles per hour (1,600 kph), the Bloodhound SCC. When...
David Attenborough

Attenborough warns leaders are in denial regarding climate change

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World leaders are in denial about the dangers posed by climate change, despite compelling evidence about its risks, warns English broadcaster and naturalist Sir...
Lettuce on Mars project team

Lettuce on Mars project shortlisted for 2018 mission

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Lettuce on Mars, a project by University of Southampton students to send a small greenhouse to Mars in which lettuce would be grown using...
Snowy owl flying

Snowy owl population rises in Canada and United States

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Snowy owls have flown south for the winter season from the arctic in larger numbers for the second successive year. A successful breeding season...
British coastal erosion

Rising seas will destroy nearly 7,000 properties within 100 years, UK

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Up to 7,000 houses in the UK worth more than £1bn will be destroyed within the next 100 years due to rising seas, says a...

Lynx should be reintroduced to Scotland, says Scottish Wildlife Trust

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The Scottish Wildlife Trust would like to see the once native Eurasian lynx reintroduced to Scotland, for both moral and ecological reasons. The lynx...
monarch butterfly

Monarch butterfly could be added to endangered species list

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The monarch butterfly could be considered a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act after various conservation groups petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...