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• Spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on a distant moon

  14-10-2024 18:15 via bbc.com
  
  Nasa's spacecraft could change what we know about life in our solar system.
  
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• ‘Wavy’ jet stream to bring warm weather to north-west Europe

  14-10-2024 16:05
  
  Warm air from south to deliver above-average temperatures – but heavy rain expected to followNorth-west Europe is forecast to experience a burst of autumn warmth this week, thanks to warm air from southern Europe spreading northwards. This brief episode of warmer-than-average conditions will be driven by an amplified, or “wavy”, jet stream, which will allow warm air to push farther north.Daytime temperatures across much of France are forecast to reach the mid-20s on Tuesday and
  
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• A red-lipped batfish: is there anything creepier? | Helen Sullivan

  14-10-2024 16:00
  
  We’ve all been there. We’ve all felt like a badly made-up, odd-limbed, irritable floor-dwelling messAs you contemplate the wonders of evolution, and how a creature can be born with something weird and new, and that thing can either help it get ahead or not hurt its chances, and it can then reproduce and make another one like it, spare a thought for the red-lipped batfish.A real animal, it has the kind of mouth that, as a kid, you may have made from Babybel cheese wax, to go with your
  
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• Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?

  14-10-2024 09:00
  
  The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heatingIt begins each day at nightfall. As the light disappears, billions of zooplankton, crustaceans and other marine organisms rise to the ocean surface to feed on microscopic algae, returning to the depths at sunrise. The waste from this frenzy – Earth’s largest migration of creatures – sinks to the ocean floor, removing millions of tonnes of carbon from the a
  
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• ‘It looked like something out of Star Trek – I expected it to go at warp speed’: the incredible marine life of the Azores – in pictures

  14-10-2024 08:00
  
  The mid-Atlantic archipelago of nine islands, the tips of drowned volcanoes, is a remarkable place for marine mammals. The clear, deep waters provide the perfect habitat for cetaceans, and 28 species of whale and dolphin have been documented there. The Dutch scientist and photographer Jeroen Hoekendijk spent a week in September capturing the diversity of Azorean wildlifePhotographs by Jeroen Hoekendijk Continue reading...
  
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• Europe’s medical schools to give more training on diseases linked to climate crisis

  14-10-2024 08:00
  
  New climate network will teach trainee doctors more about heatstroke, dengue and malaria and role of global warming in healthMosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria will become a bigger part of the curriculum at medical schools across Europe in the face of the climate crisis.Future doctors will also have more training on how to recognise and treat heatstroke, and be expected to take the climate impact of treatments such as inhalers for asthma into account, medical school leaders said,
  
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• Oysters are back on British menu – but will red tape stifle the shellfish boom?

  14-10-2024 07:00
  
  Dispute over use of invasive species could hit production at seafood farmsYou can see them on the specials boards of new restaurants and on chalkboards propped outside bars and pubs. Foodie TikTokers are eating them by the dozen. Healthy, available for £1 and even good for the environment, oysters are experiencing a boom in popularity.But the UK industry is being hampered by a row over the farming of different species, with producers saying they are struggling to expand to meet demand. Bre
  
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• ‘The job starts straight away’: Adrian Ramsay on his first 100 days as Green MP

  14-10-2024 01:00
  Co-leader has had to prioritise the most urgent constituency cases until finally assembling his full teamWhen Adrian Ramsay confounded more than a century of Conservative hegemony in rural East Anglia to win Waveney Valley for the Greens on a wave of local enthusiasm, he might have expected to enjoy a pleasant political honeymoon.Pledging to work constructively with the new government, Ramsay’s first significant parliamentary intervention at the inaugural PMQs 20 days into his new job was
  
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