Photo of the Week – March 23rd 2020 Surgeon Fish – This fish has a sharp ‘knife’ near the tail (orange). This knife is folded inside the fish when not needed, but then can be popped out when fighting for territory with other species. Sounds a bit like a gadget James Bond once […]
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NATURE The Largest Mass Migration on The Planet Happens Every Single Day, And We Never See It PETER DOCKRILL 20 MARCH 2020 At night, they rise. As the Sun disappears over the horizon, a vast movement takes place in the world’s oceans, as countless sea creatures begin the long trek upwards towards the surface waters
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Some Good News at last – but nothing to do with Climate Change Those of you who know me – know I’m pretty keen on fossils – so todays news alert grabbed me straight away. The report below explains how a fossil shell has been able to inform scientists that the Earth rotated more quickly
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Will Jellyfish take over the world? Scientists Find The First-Ever Animal That Doesn’t Need Oxygen to Survive MICHELLE STARR 25 FEB 2020 Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable. The sky is up. Gravity sucks. Nothing can travel faster than light. Multicellular life needs oxygen to live. Except we might
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Bionic Jellyfish Scientists Have Created Bionic Jellyfish And Successfully Controlled Their Movements CARLY CASSELLA 23 FEB 2020 Scientists have ‘puppeteered’ the movements of a jellyfish and made it even faster than the real thing. Taking artificial control with a microelectronic implant, researchers have increased the natural swimming speed of a live moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)
Antarctica Just Cracked a Disturbing New Temperature Record of 20 Degrees Celsius AFP 14 FEB 2020 Scientists in Antarctica have recorded a new record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius (69.35 Fahrenheit), breaking the barrier of 20 degrees for the first time on the continent, a researcher said Thursday. “We’d never seen a temperature this high
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A Simple Way to Make a Big Difference In a world affected by climate change, every little tweak we make counts. While we’re still sorting out jet fuel, there’s another plane travel impact we could cut back on rather easily, according to a new study. Getting planes to fly just 2,000 feet (610 metres)
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2020 Has Barely Started And We’ve Already Broken Another Global Heat Record Not good news, I’m afraid …. The European Union’s climate monitoring system reported Tuesday 4th February … Last month was the warmest January on record globally, while in Europe temperatures were a balmy three degrees Celsius above the average January from 1981
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Six things we can do to avert climate change problems 27 JAN 2020 Our planet is in a tight spot. We’re not hitting the targets we know we need to hit, and we’re breaking all the wrong kinds of records. What’s it going to take for us to get out of this mess? Researchers have long known
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Scientists in Singapore are solving two problems at once! Got a problem … 1. How do we get rid of excess plastic everywhere? Got a problem … 2. Need to find an energy source that is fossil free? Scientists said Wednesday they have come up with an environmentally-friendly method that uses artificial sunlight to transform
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