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Rare Angle Shark Off the Welsh Coast

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:31:00 +0000

Angel Shark

More can be found on Wikipedia

Three Quarters of Brits shower to much

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:05:00 +0000

Dermatologists say that we shower far to often and unless we are working in a dirty environment or carry out lots of physical activity then we should shower less often

Full story here

One Dies after Tanker Sinks in Arabian Sea

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 08:25:00 +0000

One Dies after Tanker Sinks in Arabian Sea: One crew member died following the sinking of a tanker in the Arabian Sea south of Oman, Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) informed. The 6,800 dwt Rama 2 issued a mayday call in the morning hours of June 26, reporting a heavy list to starboard, according to CMF. Naval ships, a helicopter and a maritime patrol aircraft

Black carbon persists across the planet, accelerating glacial melt

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 08:15:00 +0000

Black carbon persists across the planet, accelerating glacial melt:

New research shows black carbon deposits vary across the planet, but persist in a variety of glacial ecosystems.

Space X to the Moon

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:27:00 +0000

Space X the independent company that has its own space program yesterday announced that they are to send two private citizens around the moon next year. They will begin training next year for the journey over a distance that changes with the position of the moon. this can be calculated here.

Lift-off will be from Kennedy Space Centre's historic Pad 39A near Cape Canaveral, the same as used for the Apollo program. The Dragon 2 space vehicle will be used after its trip to the International space centre.

What Happens When we have Sugar

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:06:00 +0000

Watch this easy to follow video about what happens when we eat sugar

Phobos Failing Apart

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 07:55:00 +0000

A New study suggest that the grooves on the Phobos moon are stress fractures caused by the gravity from Mars and its Moon reports NASA. This indicates that the moon is slowly being pulled apart slowly

Solar Radiation on Increase Every Where Except China

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 13:04:00 +0000

Solar radiation is on the increase around the world except for China
According to Scientific Reports this is due to low winds and pollution.
Source
UPI.com Scientific Reports

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Red Squirrel Set for Come Back

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:51:00 +0000

The red squirrel has been declining in Britain over the last years with only a couple of hot spots . The grey squirrel has taken over due to it being bigger and passing on the squirrel pox virus.

Kev Lewis/Flickr

The Isle of Anglesey has now become another with all the grey squirrels being culled to leave the Island to the Reds.(Sciurus vulgaris)

BBC

New Global Coral Bleaching Event

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 07:15:00 +0000

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has reported only the 3rd coral bleaching global event.
These events are caused by global warming and ocean pollution.

More at earthsky.org.

New Sulphur Limits Sydney Harbour

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 10:38:00 +0000

New regulations governing the amount of sulphur cruse ships may admit whilst in Sydney harbour comes into effect on 1st October 2015. The ships will have to use low sulphur fuel 01% or less.

for more details see The world maritime news

Ship Size Reduced in Panama Canal

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 07:23:00 +0000

The size of ships that can traverse the Panama canal will be reduced in september draft will be 39 ft from 39.5ft due to a drought caused by ELNino. This is expected to effect 20% of ships that pass through the canal.
This is not the first time this has happened back in 1998 the limit was reduced.

More
BBC Economic Times

The moon from an other angle.

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 21:44:00 +0000

One of NASA'S satellites DSCOVR "Deep Space Climate Observatory" captured these pictures that have been made into an animation. The images are of the moon passing earth from the other side.

full story Earthsky.org

Tiger Shark Tracked Over two Years

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 06:42:00 +0000

The habits of Tiger sharks have been tracked over two years by satalite giving remarkable insite into this shark

Credit: Courtesy of Nick Filmalter/Danah Divers

The shark made a 7,500 kilometre, round-trip journeys every year between to ecosystems. full story can be read at Science Daily

Paddle Boarder meets Orca

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Sun, 24 May 2015 15:36:00 +0000

Encounter with a Killer whale whilst out paddle boarding in New Zealand

Light Emitting Paper

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Fri, 22 May 2015 06:52:00 +0000

Scientists in China have developed a light emitting transparent folding paper. The thin paper is made By mixing wood flour bio compatible quantum dots -- nano scale, semiconducting crystals formed from zinc and selenium. This should allow for an advancement in folding electronics.

Source UPI

Service Dependence at Risk of Being More Obese

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Mon, 11 May 2015 16:37:00 +0000

Researches in the United States from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences say that female children of service personnel are at a higher risk of becoming obese that civilian females of that age. Military dependents reported more binge eating that there civilian counter parts, a previous report said that the military children where under more stress than civilian children.

For the full story go to Science Daily

Mars Needs Space Traffic Control

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Tue, 05 May 2015 20:21:00 +0000

The number of spacecraft orbiting Mars has now reached a record of five and NASA has taken steps to beef up its monitoring and communications to ensure that the craft do not come to close to each other.

Russia to Ban GM Crops

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:54:00 +0000

In Russia the Duma has passed a first reading of a law to ban the growing of GM plants and animals,except for scientific purposes.
The Government is given the right to ban imports of GM goods if there is any adverse effects on humans or the environment

Source TASS

Is Pesticide Killing Bees

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 07:55:00 +0000

Research published in Nature this week points to the fact that pesticide is harming honey bees thus adding to the population decline of the species.
Pesticides where subject to a test where bees where given a choice of food one with pesticide in the other without and the bees appeared to prefer the contaminated food.

Mosquito's After Our Genes

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 07:01:00 +0000

A collaborator experiment between University of Nottingham, Rothamsted Research and the University of Florida on mosquito's has shown that being bitten could be down to your genes. Mosquito's where given the choice of twins to fly towards by releasing them down a Y shaped tube.This showed that identical twins where more attracted to the mosquito's than the non identical twins.

Source Science Daily

Panama Update Canal Expansion

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:48:00 +0000

Video Update of the Panama canal expansion the largest project on the canal since it was first Built.

Bobcat Beats Shark

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:15:00 +0000

This very unusual and dramatic image was taken by John Bailey in Vero Beach on April 6th

The original story is on National Geographic

Regrow 1 Billion Trees

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 17:05:00 +0000

A United Kingdom company has come up with a plan to reseed the planets forests using drones. The site would first be mapped and a course for a drone to fly at about 6-9 feet of the ground firing seeds into the ground using compressed air.

Source BioCarbon Engineering Discovery

Warmest Day Ever in the Antartic

noreply@blogger.com (The Griffin) — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:33:00 +0000

The Antarctic has just had its warmest day. Last week the temperature reached a record hig of 60 degrees