[ad_1] BBCListen to Pallab read this articleThere are some scientific discoveries that do much more than advance our knowledge: they create a shift in our psyche as they show us the scale of the Universe and our place in it. One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on another world, a moment that has
[ad_1] Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms.This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with life have been detected in the planet's atmosphere by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).But the
[ad_1] Lewis AdamsBBC News, EssexSchmidt Ocean InstituteThe colossal squid was found during an expedition in the south Atlantic OceanA colossal squid has been filmed in its natural environment for the first time since the species was discovered 100 years ago.The 30cm-long (11.8in) juvenile was caught on camera at a depth of 600m (1,968ft), near the South Sandwich Islands in the south Atlantic Ocean.A team of scientists, led by a University
[ad_1] Esme StallardClimate and science reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesThe number of so-called serious pollution incidents recorded by water companies in England is at a ten year high, according to data obtained by campaigners.Surfers Against Sewage said the Environment Agency data showed the number of incidents was more than double its target.Such spills have the potential to cause damage to wildlife and illness for people making use of the country's rivers
[ad_1] A Swiss and Austrian climbing pair have shattered the speed record for completing the daunting north faces of a famed trio of Swiss mountains - the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. Switzerland's Nicolas Hojac and Austria's Philipp Brugger shaved nearly ten hours off the previous record set more than two decades ago. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Steffan MessengerEnvironment correspondent, BBC Wales NewsClare HutchinsonBBC Wales NewsGaran ThomasThis blaze on the Rhigos Mountain in south Wales in June 2023 destroyed an area the size of 140 football pitchesSome of the UK's rarest wildlife is being "torched alive" and pushed closer to extinction after weeks of intense grass fires, conservationists have warned.They include endangered birds like hen harriers and water voles, which are now the UK's fastest declining
[ad_1] In the months and years after research and working groups continued to assess procedures and rules."The work that happened very quickly at the time around the event got us to 90% of where we are now…but that has been consolidated and put into specific safety measures," Mr Nicholson said.Today there are three levels of volcanic ash contamination - low, medium and high, with guidance on how long a pilot
[ad_1] Alfie TobuttBBC World ServiceGetty ImagesThe sandstorm blanketed parts of southern Iraq in an orange hazeMore than a thousand people have been left with respiratory problems after a sandstorm swept across Iraq's central and southern parts of the country, health officials said.One official in Muthanna province reported to the AFP news agency at least 700 cases of what they said was suffocation. Footage shared online showed areas cloaked in a
[ad_1] Danai Nesta KupembaBBC NewsGuardia Civil Ministry of InteriorPolice say the couple's activities were connected to a larger global trafficking organisationSpanish authorities have arrested a couple suspected of selling exotic cats online, including protected species like white tigers, pumas and clouded leopards.Civil Guard police raided the couple's home on the island of Majorca after learning that they were owning and breeding rare feline species which they then sold on social
[ad_1] Maddie MolloyBBC Climate & Science reporterGetty ImagesThe singer will be aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocketPop star Katy Perry and five other women are set to blast into space aboard Jeff Bezos' space tourism rocket.The singer will be joined by Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sánchez and CBS presenter Gayle King.The New Shepard rocket is due to lift off from its West Texas launch site and the launch window opens at
