Our planet is facing an unprecedented challenge. As I warned last week, we are living in the shadow of a disaster – and it is one of our own making. Just like the people who lived by the doomed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, we are on the verge of destruction. By regarding the Earth as our … Read more
Astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a distant white dwarf star, which is incredibly still intact. The planet, christened ‘WD 1856 b’ is located about 80 light years away in the northern constellation Draco. White dwarfs are the incredibly dense remains of sun-sized stars after they exhaust their nuclear fuel, shrunk down to roughly … Read more
A council has been labelled a ‘bully’ after telling furious residents that repainting their houses the colour of ‘baby poo’ will help save the planet, and threatening a widow who tried to paint over the colour with a £1,600 fine. Hounslow Council claims that by painting the houses the colour reminiscent of a baby’s nappy, … Read more
Even by the astonishing standards of the natural world, Anguilla anguilla, the European eel, is an almost unbelievable creature. It can live for a hundred years. It can wriggle across fields. Eels that appear dead and dried out can come back to threshing life. During its existence, the eel changes into four different versions of … Read more
Alien life could hop from planet to planet, scientists claim after proving bacteria can survive for three YEARS on the outside of the International Space Station Researchers studied bacteria on the outside of the International Space Station They found that colonies of microbes can resist the cold and radiation in space Bacteria is able to … Read more
The world is nowhere near achieving herd immunity against coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Michael Ryan, the no-nonsense Irish epidemiologist in charge of the WHO’s health emergencies programme, told people to stop pinning their hopes on the theory as a Covid fix-all. Scientists believe at least 70 per cent of the … Read more
Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to the Earth is a water world and could have a vast reservoir of salty water hidden under its surface, according to new research. The reservoir on the minor planet, which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, lies beneath a 20 million year old crater known as Occator – … Read more
NASA‘s Curiosity rover has been on Mars since August 2012 and in that time it has shared some stunning images of the Red Planet during its 14 mile journey. It has seen a lot in that time as part of its mission to find out whether Mars has any water or the chemical building blocks … Read more
A teenage activist has claimed that coronavirus and other Zoonotic diseases are a byproduct of mistreating the planet. Environmentalist and conversationalist Bella Lack, 17, from South West London, is a youth ambassador for The Born Free Foundation and appeared on This Morning today to speak about her activism. Speaking via video link, the teenager claimed that … Read more
How important is the presence of liquid water? It is now widely believed that Mars holds a reasonably large volume of water. However, the surface of the planet is so cold, this water exists only as ice. In order for life to exist on a planet, many scientists believe it is essential for the world … Read more