But Ian Taylor, from the campaign group, Alliance of British Drivers, told BBC News: “We’re glad they appear to have stuck to the roads programme. We don’t object to spending on the railways and underground as well as roads, but the road network is a necessary part of infrastructure on which the economy depends.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55077760
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“This will tells us about the Moon’s magmatic and thermal history through time, and from that we can start to answer questions more widely about when volcanism and magmatism was occurring on all of the inner Solar System planets, and why the Moon could have run out of energy to produce volcanoes earlier than some […]
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By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent Related Topics Climate change A satellite that will be critical to the understanding of climate change has blasted skyward from California. Sentinel-6 “Michael Freilich” is set to become the primary means of measuring the shape of the world’s oceans. Its data will track not only sea-level rise but reveal […]
Dr John Ascher of the National University of Singapore said by establishing a reliable baseline we can characterise bee declines and “distinguish areas less suitable for bees from areas where bees should thrive but have been reduced by threats such as pesticides, loss of natural habitat, and overgrazing”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55006902
When researchers looked at data on drowning accidents in largely frozen lakes or rivers, they saw a “strong correlation” to rising temperatures. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54989046
Rare white giraffes killed by poachers in Kenya https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54980914
“Low-Earth orbit for over 50 years was the domain of governments. Now, we’ve seen commercial companies, SpaceX being the first, take astronauts to the space station, with Boeing set to follow, hopefully sometime next year,” commented former Nasa astronaut Leroy Chiao. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54966180
Boris Johnson is poised to announce that the government is bringing forward by a decade a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to 2030 from 2040, the BBC understands. It’s understood that new hybrid cars – those with electric motors as well as engines – will get a stay of execution: […]
Nasa and SpaceX were due to send four astronauts to the International Space Station late on Saturday – but then the weather changed their plans. Crew-1 is currently scheduled to blast off on Sunday but their most recent launch, in May 2020, was delayed several days by bad weather. With lives at stake in a […]
Biden phones foreign leaders amid Trump stand-off President-elect Joe Biden phones foreign leaders as Donald Trump vows to win a challenge against his victory. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54917151