Planet pharma: what the industry got out of COVID – podcast: Bukhta Yurii/Shutterstock After nearly two years of COVID, how is the pharmaceutical industry faring? In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we explore where drug companies were before the arrival of COVID and how they performed financially during the pandemic. And we hear about …
A new exoplanet: meet GJ 367b, an iron planet smaller and denser than Earth: SPP 1992 (Patricia Klein) As our Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago, small grains of dust and ice swirled around, left over from the formation of the Sun. Through time, they collided and stuck to each other. As they grew …
South Africa in the news: Design for Planet: Design Council to offer designers tools as part of climate strategy: With the Design Council’s flagship festival dedicated to fighting climate change wrapping up last week, we speak to CEO Minnie Moll about next steps.: “South Africa” – BingNews Owen Farrell could miss start of Six Nations …
Six areas where action must focus to rescue this planet: Sandstorm approaching Merzouga Settlement in Erg Chebbi Desert, Morocco. Pavliha/Getty Images For some time, the Earth’s natural resources have been depleted faster than they can be replaced. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has set a 2030 deadline to reduce heat-trapping emissions by half to …
Curious Kids: what is the coldest planet in the Solar System?: NASA images/Shutterstock What is the coldest planet in the Solar System? – Sejal, aged seven, Bangalore, India The planets in our Solar System are heated by the Sun. Here on Earth, we are about 100 million miles away from the Sun – a distance …
We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning: Jenson / shutterstock An astonishing 82% decrease in the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy since 2010 has given the world a fighting chance to build a zero-emissions energy system which might be less costly than the fossil-fuelled system it replaces. …
South Africa in the news: We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning: Facilities ranged in size from sprawling gigawatt-scale desert installations in Chile, South Africa, India and north-west China, through to commercial and industrial rooftop installations in …: “South Africa” – BingNews T20 World Cup: De Kock knee …
Degrowth: why some economists think abandoning growth is the only way to save the planet – podcast: Sepp photography/Shutterstock Some economists have long argued that to really save the planet – and ourselves – from the climate crisis, we need a fundamental overhaul of the way our economies work. In this episode of The Conversation …
Dune: we simulated the desert planet of Arrakis to see if humans could survive there: Dune, the epic series of sci-fi books by Frank Herbert, now turned into a movie of the same name, is set in the far future on the desert planet of Arrakis. Herbert outlined a richly-detailed world that, at first glance, …
We’ve spotted a planet surviving its dying star – here’s what it tells us about end of our Solar System: Scientists have spotted a Jupiter-like planet surviving the death of its star. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko How will the Solar System die? It’s a hugely important question that researchers have speculated a lot …
Hybrid working is fuelling demand for more tech and bigger homes – both are bad news for the planet: Working from home or the office? Hybrid working means splitting your time between both. Piscine26/Shutterstock Just 5% of employed people in the UK worked from home in 2019. The onset of the pandemic and the overnight …
Five things we learned about the state of the planet at the world’s biggest meeting of biodiversity experts: Every four years, some of the biggest issues facing the planet are thrashed out in a global meeting of conservation scientists. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the status of …
Climate Repair: three things we must do now to stabilise the planet: Mangrove captures four times more carbon than a same area of rainforest. By Annabell Mayke/Shutterstock “Nowhere is safe.” As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a recent report that climate change and its consequences are here to stay, is there …
South Africa in the news: South Africa’s Cabinet fiddles while our planet burns: The fire is coming, and our defences are threadbare: The science is in. Again. The global climate system is crumbling in the face of a virtually unchecked onslaught of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions and irresponsible development. And it’s going …: “South Africa” …
Earth’s inner core is growing more on one side than the other – here’s why the planet isn’t tipping: Argonne National Laboratory/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA More than 5,000 kilometres beneath us, Earth’s solid metal inner core wasn’t discovered until 1936. Almost a century later, we’re still struggling to answer basic questions about when and how it first …
South Africa in the news: VIDEO: The Planet Rugby Show, Episode Seven: Mark Smith and Adam Kyriacou bring you another Planet Rugby Show, covering the goings on in the sport. This episode looks at the British & Irish Lions’ first Test victory over South Africa and the …: “South Africa” – BingNews Tunisia unrest: What …
Contrails from aeroplanes warm the planet – here’s how new low-soot fuels can help: While aviation accounts for 2.4% of all emissions from fossil fuel use globally, two-thirds of the sector’s warming effect depends on something other than its CO? emissions. And one of the most significant ways aviation contributes to global warming is through …
South Africa in the news: G7 leaders commit to protect planet and turbocharge global green growth: G7 leaders are expected to agree a series of measures to address the climate crisis and protect nature. G7 leaders to kick off new partnership on infrastructure investment today to propel global green …: “South Africa” – BingNews Eddie …