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1 week ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Robin McKie
This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Scientists are about to take part in a revolutionary mission aimed at creating detailed 3D maps of the world's remotest, densest and darkest tropical forests - from outer space. The feat will be achieved using a special radar scanner that has been fitted to a probe, named Biomass, that will be fired into the Earth's orbit later this month.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Edward Helmore |Robin McKie
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Edward Helmore |Robin McKie
Jeff Bezos is blasting his bride-to-be Lauren Sánchez and her “guests” to space on Monday – a plan that might, under other circumstances, contain mixed messages.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Robin McKie
Earlier this year I received an email from a reader asking background questions about an article I had written more than four decades ago. Given the time gap, my recollection was hazy. To be honest, it was almost non-existent. So I was intrigued – and then astonished when I read the feature.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Robin McKie
Scientists are about to take part in a revolutionary mission aimed at creating detailed 3D maps of the world’s remotest, densest and darkest tropical forests – from outer space. The feat will be achieved using a special radar scanner that has been fitted to a probe, named Biomass, that will be fired into the Earth’s orbit later this month.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Robin McKie
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Robin McKie
Scientists are refining plans to build the world’s biggest machine at a site beneath the Swiss-French border. More than $30bn (£23bn) would be spent drilling a 91km circular tunnel in which subatomic particles would be accelerated to near light speeds and smashed into each other. From the resulting nuclear debris, scientists hope they will then find clues that would help them understand the detailed makeup of the universe. It is an extraordinarily ambitious project.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Robin McKie
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Robin McKie
In July 2023, prime minister Rishi Sunak and energy secretary Grant Shapps issued a defence of their decision to expand UK oil and gas production in the North Sea. The move was necessary to prevent household energy prices from rising sharply across the nation, they claimed. It was a manifest distortion of the truth, to say the least. British oil and gas prices are set by global energy markets, which are barely affected by what the UK does in its heavily depleted North Sea oilfields.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Robin McKie
Exactly five years ago Boris Johnson announced that the United Kingdom was being placed in lockdown. “From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction – you must stay at home because the critical thing we must do is to stop the disease spreading between households,” the PM told the nation. That lockdown, Britain’s first of the Covid-19 pandemic, lasted until June.
