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“heating up twice as fast as the global average”
“Much of the opposition centers on the mill's toxic waste, which is stored in five lined pits called tailings cells occupying 284 acres of land.”
“Angel Investor: Joined Tiger Woods in bankrolling a $10B deep-tech push to resurrect extinct species via CRISPR.”
“global natural catastrophes have increased five-fold over the past 50 years”
“Lola calculates that the HTP race car produces about 4.4 tons of carbon to build.”
“survey of 1,323 Americans ages 18 to 29 fielded by Angus Reid Group from Feb. 2 to 19, 2026”
“Promega Achieves 100% Renewable Electricity Across Global Operations”
“provisional recording of 38.1C in London”
“In 2023, Hoboken opened a 5.4-acre park on a former industrial site.”
“At least 191 million people are forecast to endure temperatures of at least 35C on Sunday in Europe”
“This summer unfolded in a world roughly 1.4 degrees Celsius hotter than the late 1800s.”
“the underlying survey drew from a weighted sample of 1,232 respondents ages 18 to 29, rim-weighted by region, generation, and gender”
“Scope 3 emissions, which occur outside direct operations, represent about 76% of the company’s total footprint, highlighting the importance of supplier engagement to meet long-term climate goals.”
“There are currently 1,353 of these restrictions in place.”
“Its playgrounds and lawns can hold up to 2 million gallons of stormwater.”
“Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average”
“one degree of warming cuts yields by around 8 percent, roughly double the 3.8 percent modelled.”
“This data informed the science-based emissions reduction targets that were validated by SBTi in April 2026.”
“There have been 61 environmental incidents due to the drought”
“During heavy rain, the park absorbs extra water through green infrastructure and sends it into a 1-million-gallon underground detention tank.”
“He would then display the bodies in lifelike poses, revealing their muscles, skeletons and internal organs in exhibitions that drew millions worldwide but also occasionally faced calls for bans. Von Hagens, an anatomist, lecturer and entre…”
“the proposal could create room for around 2.4 billion additional tonnes of CO2 by 2050.”
“affecting around 20 million people”
“After a storm, a 30-million-gallon-per-day flood pump, built in partnership with the North Hudson Sewerage Authority, moves the stored water from the underground tank directly into the Hudson River.”
“The UK accounts for under one per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions”
“Pennsylvania owns 3.9 million acres of managed by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the state Game Commission—including 2.2 million acres of state forest, 1.5 million acres of game land and state parks spanning 295,0…”
“nearly 80% of England's rivers are seeing flows below normal or lower”
“Together, the first two parks can hold 670,000 gallons of stormwater.”
“Global emissions from fossil fuels hit a record high in 2025”
“more than 300,000 kilometers distant from the home planet.”
“bringing nine new reservoirs by 2050”
“Once these projects are finished, Hoboken will have added about 10 acres of resiliency parkland to its urban area since 2016.”
“On July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and carry out a long-term scientific mission on its surface.”
“just one-sixth the gravity of the Earth”
“provide 670 million litres of extra water per day”
“the pit held about 547 billion litres of water.”
“The mission operated for more than six years, far exceeding its planned lifetime and transforming our understanding of Mars.”
“every two weeks”
“All scientific observations at Jodrell are expected to cease on the 1 April 2028 unless alternative funding can be found.”
“Filling was completed on 18 April, 2012, a little over four years after it began.”
“He identifies seven key challenges: hostile surface environment, human performance, life support, medical care, radiation exposure, reduced gravity, and telecommunication delays – and shows that there are viable solutions for each and ever…”
“70 nations”
“The UKRI, which has an annual budget of just under £10bn, says it has had to cut the observatory's annual £2.8m budget because planned research costs for physics and the running of its labs had escalated. The announcement is part of a broa…”
“Today, the lake covers 865 hectares.”
“His aim is to settle one million people on Mars. To achieve this, he will need to launch 1,000 Starships, each carrying 100 colonists, to Mars during each launch window, for ten launch windows, which occur approximately once every 26 month…”
“Roth, a graduate researcher at Princeton, told me in an interview his team ultimately found a treasure trove of exoplanet candidates, ranging from colossal gas giants locked in tight orbits around their stars, called “Hot Jupiters,” to “su…”
“Twenty-eight jobs are at risk at the Jodrell Bank site in Cheshire, but its closure would also affect the work of nearly 3,000 scientists who use it in their research.”
“and it has earned Blue Flag certification, an eco-label that monitors water quality, safety and other factors.”
“Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society and a significant influence on Musk, envisions 50,000 settlers within half a century.”
“The expressed goal of the Plato mission is to find an Earth-like planet around a Sun like star. Plato is also designed to seek out planets that feature liquid water on their surface, along with an atmosphere conducive to life.”
“The UK will no longer participate in research at the James Clark Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii... And there will be a 20% cut in funding that supports UK participation in the Vera Rubin Telescope in Chile...”
“four distinct habitats like meadow, scrub, woodland and wetland, have formed naturally around the shoreline”
“This is the first time we've put an intact Starship in the water.”
“The first IPCC report from 1990 said that it is certain that greenhouse gas emissions [cause warming].”
“Joined together these UK telescopes can zoom into objects in deep space and see them in incredible detail — with similar resolution to the Hubble space telescope.”
“the lake formed two separate layers divided by a line scientists call a chemocline”
“During the mission, the rocket launched 20 of Starlink's V3 satellites, a much more powerful version with greater bandwidth and internet speeds. They briefly connected with SpaceX's existing network of some 10,000 orbiting satellites.”
“Every additional ton of CO2 emissions is going to make this worse. [...] We can’t go back from the warming that we are causing now [...] It will affect us and our children and grandchildren for thousands of years to come”
“The invisible dark matter and dark energy that make up more than 95% of the Universe.”
“The first layer is only mildly acidic and high in oxygen, similar to a freshwater lake.”
“Just looking at the booster real quick, it didn't look like we lit all 13 engines that we were planning for that initial land and burn... We were targeting a softer splash on it, and as you saw, it came in with quite a bit of velocity.”
“The second layer, hundreds of metres down, has almost no oxygen and is far more acidic, with a much lower pH than the layer above it.”
“There's a lot riding on SpaceX's progress: The company is under contract with NASA to produce a modified version of Starship to serve as a lunar landing system.”
“a new conservation programme known as the Phoenix Species Project has been launched with a commitment of 200 million US dollars to support the recovery of 100 of the world's most threatened species.”
“The mission attempting unprecedented maneuvers has a projected cost of $30 million to save the device, which originally cost $250 million.”
“discussions began in 2021 when DiCaprio and Re:wild chief executive Wes Sechrest met with Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos”
“She likened it to a supercharged version of a supernova, which is a dramatic, explosive death of a star. Gamma-ray bursts are extremely brief, she explained, so the telescope was placed at an altitude of approximately 600 kilometres in low…”
“Accra, the capital of Ghana produces around 2,800 to 3,000 tons of solid waste per day and the plastic portion of this volume is estimated between 300 and 450 tons, according to data from the International Growth Centre.”
“Only China has attempted a mission like the upcoming one, successfully boosting a satellite into a higher graveyard orbit four years ago.”
“The Yale Environment 360 report noted that only about 5 per cent of the 5,000 tons of plastic discarded daily across the country were sent to recycling facilities.”
“With a laugh, Caputo projected the chances of success at 'maybe 50-50'.”
“In total for the year, Ghana generates nearly 1.1 million tons of plastic, a figure that the Ghana Circular Economy Center reiterated in July 2026, when calling for investment in collection after the floods that hit Accra.”
“only 23 per cent of roads were paved at the time of the survey published by Yale Environment 360.”
“The country has installed over 96,000 kilometres of roads with plastic, and about 22,500 kilometres of new roads were built after the Ministry of Road Transport made it mandatory in 2016 to add recycled plastic to asphalt, according to Yal…”
“has earned her a place among the 10 finalists in the 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge”
“win the $25,000 grand prize”
“now in its 19th year”
“conclude on October 12 and 13 at the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minnesota”
“the 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge, where she could win a $25,000 main prize.”
“Naboshree is among 10 students picked from across the country for the 19th annual competition.”
“On October 12 and 13, all 10 students will travel to the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.”
“The 2026 finalists are between 11 and 14 years old.”
“The contest invites children in grades five to eight to use science, technology, engineering, and math to solve real everyday problems.”
“The competition formed an Alumni Network in 2022 to connect past finalists and mentors.”
“Former winner Gitanjali Rao was named TIME's first Kid of the Year in 2020.”
“Liam McCarty made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022.”
“Heman Bekele was named TIME's Kid of the Year in 2024.”
“These balls slow down water evaporation and help the soil stay wet for longer.”
“the 19th annual competition.”
“By using ultraviolet observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers were able to isolate the white dwarfs for the first time, measure their temperatures and confirm their existence.”
“According to the study, the four white dwarfs were found to have effective temperatures ranging from roughly 5,300 to 6,300 Kelvin, confirming that they are relatively cool and therefore difficult to detect through conventional surveys.”
“The researchers also showed that estimates based only on photometric measurements can overstate white dwarf temperatures by around five to eight per cent because emission from active red dwarfs contaminates the observations.”
“Including these newly confirmed objects allowed the researchers to revise the estimated local white dwarf space density to approximately 5.2 × 10⁻³ white dwarfs per cubic parsec.”
“As per the study, the team compared the observed number of nearby systems with predictions from Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis (BPASS) models. The theoretical calculations predicted around 4.4 such systems within 20 parsecs of th…”
“One particularly notable system is G 203-47, located just 7.6 parsecs from Earth. Although astronomers suspected for more than two decades that it hosted a white dwarf companion, this study provides the first direct confirmation. That disc…”
“Using Swift X-ray observations together with existing photometric data, the researchers found evidence that the red dwarf in G 203-47 rotates far more slowly than it orbits, with a likely rotation period exceeding 100 days. This indicates …”
“Alberta was the first place in North America to spot Prussian carp. Since they first showed up, the fish have travelled through connected rivers into Saskatchewan and appeared in several Alberta river systems. According to Rural Roots Cana…”
“a study of 18,000 forest patches found community rules can limit clearing and allow trees to return”
“If a farmer asks for too much—say, a 20-acre (8-hectare) field instead of a 2-acre (0.8-hectare) field—fewer people show up to help”
“Satellite maps showed a clear difference at the country's border with Guatemala. On the Guatemalan side, vast stretches of forest were completely cleared for cattle fields. On the Belizean side, where Mayan villages live, a healthy mix of …”
