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Red Cross Warns of a ‘Staggering’ Drop in Blood Supply

@BreaknNewsJune 2, 2020

by @BreaknNewsJune 2, 202006

WASHINGTON — As protests and violence erupt in cities, the United States faces a new threat: The country is running out of blood. Several months of social distancing and stay-at-home orders have resulted in fewer people donating blood, according to health care workers, with collection drives at offices, schools and......

What New York’s Trash Reveals About Life Under Lockdown

@BreaknNewsJune 2, 2020

by @BreaknNewsJune 2, 2020010

More than two months into a coronavirus lockdown, evidence of how home confinement has changed New York City’s behavior is coming out in the trash. New Yorkers are drinking more, opening more cans of tomato sauce and using more plastic containers. They also seem to be ordering more boxed deliveries......

Extinction ‘existential threat to civilisation’

@BreaknNewsJune 2, 2020

by @BreaknNewsJune 2, 202006

Image copyright Gerardo Ceballos Image caption The bontebok was once down to 17 individuals Human impacts on the places on Earth with the most richness of life have brought hundreds of wild animals to the brink of extinction, a study shows. The likes of logging and poaching has pushed 500......

‘Going in the Wrong Direction’: More Tropical Forest Loss in 2019

@BreaknNewsJune 2, 2020

by @BreaknNewsJune 2, 202009

Destruction of tropical forests worldwide increased last year, led again by Brazil, which was responsible for more than a third of the total, and where deforestation of the Amazon through clear-cutting appears to be on the rise under the pro-development policies of the country’s president. The worldwide total loss of......

U.S. Ruling Could Mean a Flood of New Claims Against Volkswagen

@BreaknNewsJune 1, 2020

by @BreaknNewsJune 1, 202009

Volkswagen, the German automaker that admitted to a decade-long scheme to cheat on diesel emissions tests in the United States and elsewhere, could face a “staggering” volume of claims from local governments after a federal appeals court ruled on Monday that counties in Florida and in Utah could impose local......

The mystery of ‘silent spreaders’

@BreaknNewsJune 1, 2020

by @BreaknNewsJune 1, 202007

As the crisis has unfolded, scientists have discovered more evidence about a strange and worrying feature of the coronavirus. While many people who become infected develop a cough, fever and loss of taste and smell, others have no symptoms at all and never realise they’re carrying Covid-19. Researchers say it’s......

E.P.A. Limits States’ Power to Oppose Pipelines and Other Energy Projects

@BreaknNewsJune 1, 2020

by @BreaknNewsJune 1, 202009

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced that it had limited states’ ability to block the construction of energy infrastructure projects, part of the Trump administration’s goal of promoting gas pipelines, coal terminals and other fossil fuel development. The completed rule curtails sections of the U.S. Clean Water......

States Warn That Virus May Doom Climate Projects

@BreaknNewsJune 1, 2020

by @BreaknNewsJune 1, 2020011

WASHINGTON — Connecticut is preparing to build a first-of-its-kind underground flood wall. Virginia has planned an intricate system of berms, pump stations and raised roads to keep the flood-prone city of Norfolk dry. Louisiana has broken ground on a new community for people forced to flee a village on its......

Nasa SpaceX launch: What is the Crew Dragon?

@BreaknNewsMay 31, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 31, 2020010

Image copyright NASA Image caption Crew Dragon (right) next to the Falcon 9 rocket The Crew Dragon launched astronauts from US soil for the first time since the last Shuttle flight in 2011. But it’s a very different type of vehicle to Nasa’s retired spaceplane. Elon Musk says human spaceflight......

Watch: Nasa and SpaceX lift-off

@BreaknNewsMay 31, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 31, 2020015

Two Nasa astronauts have launched into orbit on a rocket and capsule system provided by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX. Doug Hurley’s and Bob Behnken’s Dragon capsule left Earth atop its Falcon-9 rocket exactly on time, after the first attempt three days earlier had to be aborted because of weather conditions.......

Spanish dig for the bones of Donegal ‘Fighting Prince’

@BreaknNewsMay 31, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 31, 2020012

Image copyright City Hall of Valladolid/Paco Heras Image caption Several sets of unidentified human remains have already been discovered Are the bones of a historic Irish leader entombed below the foundations of a bank in northern Spain? Archaeologists have dug up a street in the city of Valladolid in a......

Astronaut capsule set to dock with space station

@BreaknNewsMay 31, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 31, 2020011

Image copyright NASA Image caption Behnken (far) and Hurley (near) called down to Earth at the end of the day’s activities US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will dock to the International Space Station (ISS) later. The men are making their way up to the orbiting platform after their......

How a green new deal really could go global

@BreaknNewsMay 30, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 30, 2020010

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The big attraction for politicians at this time of crisis is jobs Good news is in short supply at the moment, so brace yourself for a rare burst of optimism about climate change. World leaders know their countries face one of the most severe......

Osprey project grows online audience in lockdown

@BreaknNewsMay 30, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 30, 2020010

Image copyright Rutland Osprey Project Image caption Osprey chicks are fed on fish caught by their parents Bird watchers have turned their eyes from the skies to the web as the coronavirus outbreak forces more people to watch rare birds online. Rutland Water Nature Reserve closed in March to limit......

Economic Giants Are Restarting. Here’s What It Means for Climate Change.

@BreaknNewsMay 29, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 29, 2020013

As countries begin rolling out plans to restart their economies after the brutal shock inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic, the three biggest producers of planet-warming gases — the European Union, the United States and China — are writing scripts that push humanity in very different directions. Europe this week laid......

SpaceX launch: Nasa astronauts set for second try

@BreaknNewsMay 29, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 29, 2020012

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionBad weather conditions delayed Wednesday’s launch attempt Rocket company SpaceX will make a second attempt in the coming hours to get Nasa astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken into orbit. Their flight to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday was postponed......

Senior Interior Official Broke Ethics Rules a 2nd Time, Watchdog Says

@BreaknNewsMay 29, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 29, 2020014

WASHINGTON — A senior Department of Interior official violated federal ethics rules by using his position to try to get a family member a job at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department’s internal watchdog said in a report published Friday. The conclusion marked the second time in six months......

‘Stunning’ seafloor ridges record Antarctic retreat

@BreaknNewsMay 29, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 29, 2020010

Image copyright Dowdeswell et al Image caption It’s amongst the best ocean-floor imagery obtained anywhere around Antarctica Scientists are learning just how fast the ice margin of Antarctica can retreat in a warming world. They’ve identified features on the seafloor that indicate the ice edge was reversing at rates of......

World’s deepest octopus captured on camera

@BreaknNewsMay 28, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 28, 2020013

Image copyright A.Jamieson Image caption The octopus moves in to investigate the bait on the lander The deepest ever sighting of an octopus has been made by cameras on the Indian Ocean floor. The animal was spotted 7,000m down in the Java Trench – almost 2km deeper than the previous......

Pterosaur species fossil hailed as UK first

@BreaknNewsMay 28, 2020

by @BreaknNewsMay 28, 2020019

Image copyright Megan Jacobs Image caption The tapejarid’s enlarged crest may have been used for sexual display, researchers said A fossil of a species of prehistoric reptile, previously found in China and Brazil, has been discovered in the UK for the first time, a university said. The delicate jaw fragment......

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