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Conservation non-profit organisation Pangolin.Africa will launch a World Pangolin Day campaign on Saturday which will involve ordinary people from across the globe.According to the organisation, the #running4pangolins campaign was aimed at generating mass global awareness. This will be done by inspiring everyone from armchair athletes to competitive runners to hit the tar, track, trail or treadmill in…
Make Pluto a planet again?Four4Four Science: Scientists want to restore Pluto’s planet status; UAE eyes city on Mars, facial-recognition software could save lemurs, New Mexico’s ancient matriarchyPluto was a planet in good standing for seventy-six years when in 2006, out of the blue, it was demoted and booted from our solar system’s family of planets. The…
Elon Musk reveals prototypes of the Tesla Solar Roof on October 28, 2016TeslaEven with a record fourth quarter for its solar energy and storage systems business, Tesla’s energy revenue declined by over $24 million in 2019, after several rounds of layoffs that started the prior year.The company is now under pressure to get the business…
“The greatest existential threat” – this is how President Cyril Ramaphosa described the global climate crisis in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday. As he outlined plans to turn around South Africa’s faltering energy supply, Ramaphosa said work is “under way to fundamentally restructure our electricity industry; we will achieve a secure…
Photo: VW Pics (Getty Images)The natural world overflows with incredible sights—the kind of things that fill with awe and force us to view ourselves as one part of a greater whole, tiny atoms in a universe impossibly vast and beautiful in its magnificent design. Unfortunately, nature is also outside and outside can be too cold…
Approximately 100 tons of asteroid debris and space dust pelts the planet’s atmosphere every single day. Larger, car-sized asteroids are estimated to hit us about once a year on average. Even larger asteroids and comets hit the planet less frequently, and the killer rocks measuring many miles across only hit once every few million years.The…
Posted February 15, 2020 06:34:10 It might surprise you after years of spiralling price rises, but your electricity bill is set to fall. Key points:New figures from AEMO show the spot price for electricity fell almost 20 per cent in the last quarter of 2019There have been periods when generators have had to pay to…
EXTREME sea level rise that happened over 100,000 years ago due to rising ocean temperatures could happen again, according to a new study. Scientists now think that a mass melting event at the West Antarctic ice sheet was responsible for a significant 3+ metre increase in ancient sea levels. 2 The Antarctic is seeing temperatures…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft made history in April last year after firing a bomb at Asteroid Ryugu, in an ambitious attempt to collect a sample of the space rock. But a much more violent asteroid rendezvous is being prepared by NASA. The US space agency is planning the DART mission, where a space probe will be…
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Published 11:20 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2020 | Updated 4:31 p.m. ET Feb. 13, 2020CLOSE If you think it’s hot now, just wait. Heat waves are becoming more frequent globally. But how do we measure heat waves? We explain. USA TODAYAn iceberg twice the size of Washington, D.C., has broken off the…
