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Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate

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Earth’s plants and soils reached peak carbon dioxide sequestration in 2008 but proportion absorbed has been declining since, study finds Our planet is losing its appetite for mopping up carbon dioxide. Analysis of atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements show that Earth’s plants and soils reached peak carbon dioxide sequestration in 2008 and absorption has been declining ever since. Passing this t

US climate research agency braces for ‘efficiency’ cuts: ‘They will gut the work’

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Workers at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fear crackdown will have global fallout The Trump administration has set its sights on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the US’s pre-eminent climate research agency, with significant cuts and a political crackdown on climate science. As Trump takes aim at the agency, the impact is likely to be felt across the US

Brewing tea removes heavy metals from water, study finds

Tea brewing removes heavy metals

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Scientists say consumption of the beverage may have health benefit by reducing intake of metals such as lead The medicinal effect of a cup of tea is no surprise to anybody who has headed straight to the kettle after a laborious work meeting. But researchers say they may have found a more scientific explanation for why it is associated with health benefits. Continue reading...

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UK ‘falling short’ in fight against rise of superbugs resistant to antibiotics

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Antimicrobial resistance contributing to estimated 35,000 deaths a year in UK, and government ‘a long way’ from containing the problem, says NAO Superbugs are on the rise in the UK and the government is failing in its efforts to tackle them, ministers have been warned. The World Health Organization has described antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – where pathogens evolve and develop resistance to ant

Ex-US security officials urge funding for science research to keep up with China

US officials urge increased science funding

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Appeal from officials, including two senior figures from Trump’s first term, comes amid reports National Science Foundation’s budget will be slashed Chuck Hagel, the former US defense secretary, and other former US national security officials, including two senior figures from Donald Trump’s first term, on Tuesday warned that China was outpacing the US in critical technology fields and urged Cong

Dear Nasa, please send me to Mars! The photographer who showed Britain – and space – in colour

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From ghost trains to backstreet weddings, from demolition sites to ‘alien’s eye views’ of Leeds, groundbreaking photographer Peter Mitchell captures our changing world with his trusty ‘Blad’ – and once even tried to leave it The Quarry Hill flats in Leeds were once the largest social housing complex in the UK. A utopian vision of homes for 3,000 people. Built in the 1930s, they were modelled on t

Do worms feel pain and are ants happy? Why the science on invertebrate feelings is evolving

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For the next few weeks we’re asking readers to nominate their invertebrate of the year: click here to give us your suggestions Does a worm feel pain if it gets trodden on? Does a fly ache when its wings are pulled off? Is an ant happy when it finds a food source? If so, they may be sentient beings, which means they can “feel”, a bit or a lot, like we do. Invertebrate sentience is becoming an ever

‘I know their names, what they eat’: tracking polar bears on Svalbard’s shifting icescapes

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For more than 20 years, scientists have followed the animals in Norway’s Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on melts When Rolf-Arne Ølberg is hanging out of a helicopter with a gun, he needs to be able to assess from a distance of about 10 metres the sex and approximate weight of the moving animal he is aiming at, as well as how fat or m

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How Trump unleashed chaos in science – podcast

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In his first month in office the US president has thrown science in the US into chaos, delaying projects and casting the future of research funding and jobs into doubt. To understand everything that has happened in the month since he took office and what its impact could be, Madeleine Finlay hears from science editor Ian Sample and Prof Harold Varmus, a Nobel prize winner and former director of t

Mars once had an ocean with sandy beaches, researchers say

Mars once had sandy beaches

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China’s Zhurong rover finds evidence of shoreline buried deep underground Mars may not seem like a prime holiday spot with its arid landscape and punishing radiation levels, but it once boasted beaches, researchers have found. While previous discoveries of features including valley networks and sedimentary rocks has suggested the red planet once had flowing rivers, there has been debate among sci

Chance of giant asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 falls to 0.0017%

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 had reached a 3.1% likelihood of impact but further data has rendered it negligible It was a discovery that led to panic-inducing headlines: a giant asteroid found to be hurtling towards Earth that , while unlikely to wipe out life, could do some serious damage. But now the world can breathe a sigh of relief. After the odds of a future collision rose earlier this year , the like

Brain stimulation could treat anxiety in people with Parkinson’s, scientists say

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Exclusive: Researchers aim to develop new techniques to relieve symptoms after finding ‘strong’ link to brain wave Scientists say brain stimulation could be used to treat anxiety in people with Parkinson’s disease, after they made an “exciting” discovery about brain waves. More than 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s, and about one in three have troublesome anxiety that affec

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MS patients suffer side-effects after NHS England switches to cheaper drug

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Scores of people experience complications after change from Tysabri to Tyruko as part of NHS drive to save money ‘It was awful for me’: one MS patient shares her experience with Tyruko Scores of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) have suffered debilitating side-effects after being put on to a cheaper new drug as part of an NHS drive to save money. About 170 MS patients at Charing Cross hospital

Starwatch: a gloriously brilliant Venus and a young crescent moon

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Keep an eye on the western sky for the pairing – and you may also see Mercury hovering over the horizon This week, we keep an eye on the western sky to catch glorious Venus and a young crescent moon. The chart shows the view looking west from London at 19.00 GMT on the evening of 2 March. At this point, the moon will be just over three days old and have just 10% of its visible surface illuminated

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