Environment news

• Pompeii: Archaeologists unveil ceremonial chariot discovery

  27-02-2021 21:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ornate discovery was used during festivities and parades almost 2,000 years ago, experts say.
  
  Read more

• 'All the bones are there': could a new electric vehicle be built in Australia?

  27-02-2021 20:00
  
  With the right incentives, many believe Australia can still ride the electric revolution, reviving its car industry and slashing emissions at the same timeWalking around the old Holden factory site in Elizabeth, Paschal Somers points out each piece of machinery to explain what it does and how it could be brought back to life.Though the massive factory complex in suburban Adelaide closed down three years ago, General Motors abandoned most of the machines to the site’s new owners when they s
  
  Read more

• Oregon wolf makes history on lengthy journey to California

  27-02-2021 17:57
  
  Male called OR-93 makes longest tracked journey of any wolf in a century but elsewhere in US killing of wolves resumesA grey wolf has made the longest tracked journey of any wolf over the last century, venturing hundreds of miles from its home range in Oregon to California’s Sierra Nevada. Related: 'There's a degree of mistrust': a third of US military personnel refuse Covid vaccine Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Climatologist Michael E Mann: 'Good people fall victim to doomism. I do too sometimes'

  27-02-2021 17:00
  
  The author and eminent climate scientist on the deniers’ new tactics and why positive change feels closer than it has done in 20 yearsMichael E Mann is one of the world’s most influential climate scientists. He rose to prominence in 1999 as the co-author of the “hockey-stick graph”, which showed the sharp rise in global temperatures since the industrial age. This was the clearest evidence anyone had provided of the link between human emissions and global warming. This mad
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Cattle stranded on ship in Spain must be destroyed, say vets

  27-02-2021 14:15
  
  Spanish officials recommend 864 cows that have been at sea for two months are no longer fit for transportMore than 850 cattle that have spent months adrift in the Mediterranean are no longer fit for transport and should be killed, according to a confidential report by Spanish government veterinarians.A lawyer for the cattle ship’s management company told the Guardian on Saturday that he planned to resist the move, even as a video from the port appears to show preparations being made to unl
  
  Read more

• Electricity needed to mine bitcoin is more than used by 'entire countries'

  27-02-2021 09:00
  
  Bitcoin mining – the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm – is a deeply energy intensive processIt’s not just the value of bitcoin that has soared in the last year – so has the huge amount of energy it consumes.The cryptocurrency’s value has dipped recently after passing a high of $50,000 but the energy used to create it has continued to soar during its epic rise, climbing to the equivalent to the annual carbo
  
  Read more

• Geordie shore: the river Tyne's 'soft, gentle' kittiwakes fly into trouble

  27-02-2021 08:30
  
  The gull that ‘won’t eat your fish and chips’ is about to make its annual return to the UK – but a favourite nesting spot is under threatDaniel Turner first became enamoured with the kittiwake when he was a teenager growing up in North Shields in the 1970s, where the North Sea meets the River Tyne.“I would cross the Tyne on the Shields ferry and on the way I would also observe some of the plant life of the limestone grassland at the clifftops,” he remembers. C
  
  Read more

• Weatherwatch: how forecasts emerged in medieval times

  27-02-2021 07:00
  
  Detailed weather observations and astronomical calculations were occurring as early as ninth centuryHumans have talked about the weather for millennia, but it was not until August 1861 that daily weather forecasts became available, in the Times (of London). The pioneering meteorologist Robert FitzRoy ensured that the new forecasts used a scientific procedure and were based on reliable weather observations, using the new technology of the telegraph to gather data quickly. However, the origins of
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• How Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble

  27-02-2021 01:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Could the cryptocurrency's huge electricity consumption also sink it?
  
  Read more

Follow @UK_Environment on Twitter!