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UN: ‘Red Alert’ for National Climate Goals | DW | 26.02.2021
"Today's interim report from the UNFCCC is a red alert for our planet," said UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres. The...
Welcome to the latest edition of Eco Africa | DW | 26.02.2021
On this week's edition of Eco Africa, we bring you a host of smart idea for a greener planet! First...
Do you like to nap? Your DNA might have something to do with it, study says
TORONTO -- Find yourself drifting off in the middle of the day, no matter how hard you try to ignore...
Full Moon 2021: What time will the Snow Moon peak? When can you see February’s Full Moon?
What time will the Snow Moon peak this week?The Moon will reach peak illumination at about 8.17am GMT on Saturday,...
Philippines: Facing COVID and the climate crisis | DW | 26.02.2021
Colin Seranina has been a fisherman for 25 years. The waters around Pilar on the Philippine island of Ponson once...
Hunting for a Giant Black Hole, Astronomers Found a Nest of Darkness
The cluster NGC 6397 is one of about 150 spherical clouds of ancient stars that orbit the Milky Way and...
Asteroid 7-times size of Big Ben to pass Earth – NASA tracks ‘potentially hazardous’ rock
"Over long periods of time, however, the chances of the Earth being impacted are not negligible so that some form...
Population of Mexico’s monarch butterflies falls 26 per cent, conservationists find
EL ROSARIO, MEXICO -- The population of monarch butterflies that arrived in Mexico's forests to hibernate this winter fell 26...
National Trust to plant blossom trees around UK
The National Trust is planning to plant dozens of blossoming trees at different sites around the UK. Source
The Coronavirus Is Plotting a Comeback. Here’s Our Chance to Stop It for Good.
Across the United States, and the world, the coronavirus seems to be loosening its stranglehold. The deadly curve of cases,...
‘Forward edge of human exploration’: Victoria company helps design piece of NASA Mars rover
VICTORIA -- When NASA's six-wheeled Perseverance rover touched down on the red soil of Mars, ground control teams in California...
Antarctica ‘isolation’ project will ‘develop capabilities’ for humans to colonise Mars
Antarctica: Expert discusses upcoming projects on the continentIt has been one week since NASA's Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero...
The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs
Though the gap in Hell Creek is particularly extreme, most of the communities with megatheropods the researchers studied had no...
What caused Alta.’s fireball Monday? U of A scientists solve ‘incredible mystery’
EDMONTON -- We're learning more about the fireball so many Albertans saw streak across the dark sky early Monday morning....
Jennifer Granholm is confirmed as energy secretary.
The Senate confirmed Jennifer M. Granholm to be energy secretary on Thursday, positioning the former governor of Michigan to play...
Children Are Consuming Hand Sanitizer. Here’s How to Keep Them Safe.
Alcohol-based hand sanitizer became a must-have item during the pandemic. But as sales jumped and families stocked up, poison control...
Manatees May Carry Half a Million Microscopic Hitchhikers
Previous studies had associated nematodes with manatee skin. One in 2011 described an “extraordinarily” long-tailed diplogastrid nematode, Cutidiplogaster manati, found...
What we know about the ‘California coronavirus’ | DW | 25.02.2021
First, it's important to note that at time of writing, scientists know relatively little about the so-called "California coronavirus." There...
Mars rover Perseverance beams back a 360-degree panorama of Mars and it’s simply stunning
Mastcam-Z is a stereoscopic camera based on the Mastcam instrument carried by NASA's previous rover, Curiosity.The tool has been described...
Why is Facebook banning Myanmar military pages?
VICTORIA MILKO -- Facebook announced Thursday that it is removing all remaining Myanmar military and military-controlled pages from its site...
