Sci/Environment

NASA say that one of the largest asteroids to pass close to our planet in recent times is due to fly past earth on Saturday. Astronomers will be keeping an eye on the asteroid,  86666 […]

NASA announced on Thursday that Pluto, the most distant planet from the Sun in our solar system, has blue skies and patches of frozen water. The New Horizons craft has sent back colour images of […]

Nasa is about to make an “amazing announcement” about Pluto, which a senior scientist at the agency has hinted may be about how the planet is home to alien life.  Dr Alan Stern, the man in […]

According to  to one of the space agency’s senior scientists, Nasa is set to make an ‘amazing’ announcement about Pluto. It’s just been one major discovery after another for NASA this year and they are […]

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said that nine people were killed in unprecedented flooding in the state. The flooding in South Carolina is so serious that President Obama has  declared a statewide emergency. He has […]

Following on from NASA’s announcement that liquid water flows on Mars, which has prompted some to suggest that alien life may exist on the red planet – Elon Musk has now suggested that humans should […]

Two thirds of EU states (66%) are requesting to opt-out of growing genetically modified crops, effectively banning GMO crops in most of Europe. The ‘opt-out’ clause of a European Commission rule has allowed nineteen EU […]

Wales now joins 15 other EU Countries with a total ban on genetically modified crops. Rebecca Evans, the Welsh Deputy Minister for Farming and Food announced that she intends to take advantage of new EU […]

Efforts by the government to regulate the process of hydraulic fracturing suffered another blow when a federal court judge blocked the Obama administration’s tougher fracking restrictions. The preliminary injunction was issued by Judge Scott Skavdahl […]

Several countries across the EU are now demanding a total opt-out from growing genetically modified (GM) crops. Poland is the latest with the Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki stating on Wednesday; “Now we no longer […]