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“The Iridium constellation operates in a low-Earth orbit about 780km above the planet.”
“The spacecraft are aligned in six planes and relay communications between themselves and ground stations to provide global coverage.”
“The Iridium Next project intends to replace these assets between 2015 and 2017.”
“The Franco-Italian manufacturer Thales Alenia Space (TAS) will build 81 spacecraft for the purpose.”
“Mr Musk's California-based SpaceX company already has a $1.6bn contract with Nasa to service the ISS with food and spare equipment.”
“The Royal Society and the Kavli Foundation spent £10m on the purchase and refurbishment of Chicheley Hall near Milton Keynes.”
“A new residential facility there can accommodate up to 100 scientists.”
“The Kavli Royal Society International Centre forms part of the Royal Society's 350th anniversary celebrations.”
“six-month environmental projects”
“Waste water discharges from treatment works have also improved, with NI Water reporting 90 percent compliance with standards.”
“This compares with virtually 100 percent in England and Wales.”
“NI Water is responsible for nearly a third of all pollution incidents in Northern Ireland.”
“Although the department has stated that it is not funded to achieve parity with England and Wales. The number of water quality incidents with potential health impacts has increased, partly due to improved reporting. Waste water discharges …”
“A government panel of scientists now believes 35,000-60,000 barrels are leaking from the well each day, up from its estimate last week of 20,000-40,000.”
“BP's initial estimates were 1,000-5,000.”
“opinion polls suggest a majority of Americans disapprove of how Mr Obama has handled the crisis - the worst environmental disaster in US history.”
“The Forestry Commission has pledged £13,000 to help prevent grey squirrels encroaching on the Harwood Forest reserve, near Rothbury.”
“We have 17 red squirrel reserves in northern England and the work undertaken in the buffer zones is vital.”
“The grant, spread over three years, will pay for an experienced trapper to work on land within the zone owned by a local farmer.”
“The Raploch Community Partnership has been given £35,494 by the Scottish government to aid its bid to save more than five tonnes of carbon emissions.”
“The CCF has £27.4m to distribute to green projects.”
“Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead said the fund had helped 261 communities in Scotland.”
“The Scottish government has a target to cut emissions by 42% before 2020.”
“Liverpool City Council has already rejected two planning applications for the plant, which would handle about 150,000 tonnes of waste a year.”
“The village has more than 100,000 fully grown trees, mostly of mango and lychee.”
“The scientists found that there was at least 100 times more water in the Moon's minerals than they had previously believed.”
“It would be about 2.5 times the volume of the Great Lakes," he said. "Or another way of looking at it - if you took all of the water that was locked up inside the rocks of the Moon and put them on the surface, it would make a metre-thick l…”
“It would be about 2.5 times the volume of the Great Lakes," he said.”
“Or another way of looking at it - if you took all of the water that was locked up inside the rocks of the Moon and put them on the surface, it would make a metre-thick layer covering the Moon.”
“The scientist explained that the Moon most probably formed after a Mars-sized space body collided with the young Earth, some 4.5 billion years ago.”
“Nevertheless, the scientists said that their research shed light on the origins of lunar water, asserting that it was "native" to the Moon. Earlier in 2010, a radar experiment aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft found thick depos…”
“Earlier in 2010, a radar experiment aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft found thick deposits of water-ice near the Moon's north pole.”
“The new study has been published in the journal PNAS.”
“"It is gratifying to see this proof of the OH contents in lunar apatite," commented lunar scientist Bradley Jolliff from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.”
“We're thinking now that there might have been a cometary input as well," said Dr Taylor.”
“He explained that there were a lot of comets flying around at the time of the Moon's formation, "hitting the little, nascent, early Moon some 4.5 billion years ago".”
“US researchers found cumulative global emissions since 1850 would have been one third as much again without the Green Revolution's higher yields.”
“Meeting extra food demand this way would have released about 160 Gigatonnes (billion tonnes) of carbon (GtC) over the decades - which, the researchers note, 'corresponds to 34% of the total 478 GtC emitted by humans between 1850 and 2005'.”
“Without the new crops - but with the growth in the human population and all the other socio-economic trends seen since the 1960s - feeding the world at current levels would mean the use of more than twice as much land as is currently used …”
“That's about 20 years of fossil fuel burning at present rates," observed Dr Davis.”
“A two-year £34m project to tempt drivers in Cardiff to switch to sustainable transport is in danger of failing, says an environmental charity.”
“cutting transport carbon emissions by 3% by 2011”
“The sea eagle project was expected to last five years and to cost £600,000, but its whole future is now in doubt.”
“Natural England has announced the withdrawal of its financial support.”
“We're not bowing to opposition," he said. "We have listened to farmers and landowners and they have entirely legitimate concerns, but all of the research shows that their concerns are either unfounded, or could be overcome. "Today's decis…”
“The sea eagle, or white-tailed eagle, is a rare and protected bird with a wingspan of up to 8ft (2.5m).”
“It was hunted to extinction in the British Isles, but over the last 30 years it has been re-introduced successfully in parts of Scotland.”
“The Synthetic Biology Public Dialogue was commissioned by the two UK research councils responsible for funding what has been dubbed "synthetic biology"... The research councils, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (B…”
“Professor Paul Freemont, co-director of the UK centre for Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London, said his gut reaction to this idea was that it could be "very difficult". But he said that as he thought more about it, he decided it w…”
“"Having the word 'synthetic' next to the word 'biology' does provoke a reaction in people that can be negative," he said.”
“"So this is a real quantum leap in science which people have described as the second industrial revolution".”
“"Craig Venter did artificially create that cell," he said.”
“The North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership has won funding of £109,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.”
“The first trainees are expected to be taken on in the autumn and the others will follow on over the four-year life of the project.”
“He said: "They need regular maintenance by skilled professionals to stay in good condition, but the numbers of dry-stone wallers have been dwindling."”
“The Japanese Hayabusa container hit the top of the atmosphere just after 1350 GMT, producing a bright fireball over southern Australia. ... A recovery team later reported they had identified the landing zone in the Woomera Prohibited Range.”
“The Hayabusa mission was launched to asteroid Itokawa in 2003, spending three months at the 500m-long potato-shaped space rock in 2005.”
“The main spacecraft, along with the sample-storage capsule, should have come back to Earth in 2007, but a succession of technical problems delayed their return by three years.”
“The container, on the other hand, was equipped with a shield made from carbon phenolic resin which is capable of enduring temperatures that were expected to reach 3,000C on the re-entry.”
“Just three hours before the spacecraft began its plunge into Earth's atmosphere, it pushed the sample capsule out in front.”
“"Tomorrow (Monday) or day after tomorrow, we will pick up the capsule itself. ... We will package the capsule and then send it back by aircraft - it's a special aircraft - from the Woomera range to Tokyo International Airport, to go to our…”
“"On Stardust, the entire sample return was on the order of thousands of nano-grams. That was thousands of grains, each of which weighed about one nano-gram; and one of those grains you could spend a year studying," he told BBC News.”
“"If we look at anything on Earth it has been thoroughly through the wringer; it's been messed up by plate-tectonic processes and geochemical processes. So if we want to look at what our Earth was made of, we have to leave Earth. That's the…”
“The main spacecraft was destroyed during the descent, accounting for most of the spectacular light show south Australians saw in the night sky.”
“However, Japanese space agency (Jaxa) officials remain confident of success. They say a lot of dust would have been kicked up when Hayabusa landed on the space rock to make the grab, and some of this material must have found its way inside…”
“Oil has been leaking into the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on 20 April and sank off the coast of the US state of Louisiana, killing 11 workers.”
“A team of scientists put together by the US government and co-ordinated by the US Geological Survey has estimated that 20-40,000 barrels of oil a day were leaking into the Gulf of Mexico before a containment cap was placed on 3 June.”
“Tree-planting in Manchester has trebled over the past year as a result of community group schemes and the BBC's Tree o'clock campaign.”
“More than 12,000 new trees were dug in parks, streets and gardens, representing a rise of 8,000 on the previous year.”
“The Tree O'clock campaign in December planted 50,000 new trees nationwide.”
“Professor Colin Humphreys, an expert in metals at Cambridge University, was also knighted for his services to physics.”
“While Professor Martin Shirley, of Cambridgeshire, director of the Institute for Animal Health, was appointed CBE for services to science.”
“The fact remains that industrial country pledges fall well short of the 25-40% range [from 1990 levels by 2020] that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said gives a 50% chance to keep the global temperature rise below 2C”
“"Fifty-fifty is what I'd give this last week," said Grenada's delegation chief, Dessima Williams, chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).”
“We heard demands for example that 6% of our GDP should be transferred from rich countries to poor”
“we only have two weeks negotiating time left before we meet in Cancun”
“The UN process reconvenes in August for a week-long meeting in Bonn”
“there is likely then to be another preparatory meeting in China in October”
“to be held in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of the year”
“some oil-exporting countries - including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait and Qatar - were so desperate to protect the oil industry that they blocked efforts to expand studies of the climate change problem”
“Astronomers have so far spotted some 450 extra-solar planets (exoplanets).”
“Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant about nine times the mass of Jupiter”
“It is believed to be around 12 million years old”
“The new find is located at a distance of 8-15 AU (Astronomical Units) from its parent star”
“This means the scientists should be able to record its full orbit within 15-20 years”
“The exoplanet's star is some 60 light-years from Earth”
“The first images of a point-like source in the star's debris disc were obtained back in 2003”
“to take more pictures of the disc in 2008 and early 2009”
“The presence of an exoplanet around Beta Pic proves that [gas giants] of about nine Jupiter masses form on a time scale of 10 to 12 million years”
“But Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant about nine times the mass of Jupiter, is one of only a few to be detected by direct imaging.”
“It has the smallest orbit of all exoplanets that have been directly imaged so far.”
“It is also the youngest of them, a co-author of the study, Dr Markus Kasper from the European Southern Observatory, told BBC News. Its host star, which is also called Beta Pictoris, is very young as well, he said. It is believed to be arou…”
“The new find is located at a distance of 8-15 AU (Astronomical Units) from its parent star - equivalent to the distance of Saturn from the Sun.”
“This means the scientists should be able to record its full orbit within 15-20 years, said a co-author of the study Mickael Bonnefoy, a student researcher from the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France.”
“The exoplanet's star is some 60 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Pictor.”
“The presence of an exoplanet around Beta Pic proves that [gas giants] of about nine Jupiter masses form on a time scale of 10 to 12 million years - very early in the formation of the stars themselves,”
“The first images of a point-like source in the star's debris disc were obtained back in 2003, but the data was not sufficient to confirm that it was indeed a planet.”
“The astronomers used the ultra-precise NaCo instrument of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile to take more pictures of the disc in 2008 and early 2009 - only to find that the source had disappeared.”
“Oil from the leak has travelled at least 60km”
“Up to 1,500 badgers could be culled over five years”
