23 h. ago Foreign Office earthquake advice after 'Biggest quake I've felt' rocks popular destination

People in the region hit by the earthquake were sent an emergency alert to their phones telling them: 'Emergency alert: Severe. Earthquake Detected! Drop, Cover, Hold on. Protect yourself'

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4 d. ago Documents reveal Trump’s plan to gut funding for Nasa and climate science

Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashedDonald Trump shows no signs of easing his assault on climate science as plans of more sweeping cuts to key US research centers surfaced on Friday.The administration is planning to slash budgets at both the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (Noaa) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), according to internal budget documents, taking aim specifically at programs used to study impacts from the climate crisis. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Myanmar military denounced as ‘inhumane’ for continuing airstrikes after devastating earthquake

Military accused of ‘taking advantage’ of biggest earthquake in a century to weeken rebel forces

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2 w. ago What are the biggest earthquakes in history as huge 7.7 magnitude hits Myanmar?

Massive Myanmar earthquake causes widespread destruction, with hundreds feared dead

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3 w. ago Cringey email signatures burn IT energy and kill the planet, says top boffin

The boffin said in his country around '15% of people include gender pronouns in emails', the carbon emissions of which 'may contribute to the premature deaths of one person a year'

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last month Earth's biggest extinction event didn't actually kill off everything, boffins discover

Some scientists have now branded the “Great Dying” as a “crisis on land, not an extinction” after new fossil discoveries led scientists to think that the volcanic eruption had less effect on land than the seas

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