Amazon is ramping up its satellite internet project this summer. Following a recent launch, the LEO constellation now has 394 satellites in orbit around Earth, and the company says it plans to launch its first service later this year.
For now, the Great Barrier Reef will not be added to UNESCO’s list of endangered World Heritage sites. In a draft decision, the World Heritage Committee commends Australia’s efforts to protect the reef, but at the same time warns that coral bleaching is placing increasing pressure on the ecosystem’s resilience.
Will the Trump administration change course? OpenAI is pulling out all the stops.
Oekraïne zet steeds inventiever in op ballonnen om dieper in Rusland te kunnen toeslaan. Een van de opvallendste nieuwe ontwikkelingen is DART, een geleide raket die niet vanaf een vliegtuig of lanceerinstallatie wordt afgevuurd, maar wordt losgelaten vanaf een ballon op de rand van de stratosfeer.
Swiss glaciers are once again losing ice at an alarming rate this year, due to the ongoing heat wave in Europe. According to Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS), the snow and ice cover that built up last winter will have completely melted away by Monday. This means that the so-called “glacier loss day” will once again occur exceptionally early.
This heat wave would have been virtually unthinkable fifty years ago. A new international study by World Weather Attribution concludes that the current heat in Western Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change and that the likelihood of such extreme heat has increased significantly over the past few decades.
Whaling returns to Iceland following a two year hiatus.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to ban social media for young people under the age of 16. Gaming and live-streaming platforms will also face stricter rules, in one of the strictest measures worldwide to better protect children online.
Catching Pokémon in your neighborhood? You may have accidentally helped build better military drones.
Google wants to release 32 million mosquitoes in the US. In the scientific program "Debug," a natural bacterium is introduced into male mosquitoes. Those male mosquitoes are then released into the wild with a clear task.