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We travel at speed towards the village of Lyptsi – now under siege.Russian forces have penetrated this border area north...
17/05/2024

We travel at speed towards the village of Lyptsi – now under siege.

Russian forces have penetrated this border area north of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.

We are being escorted by members of Ukraine’s National Guard, among the latest reinforcements to try to halt this most recent Russian advance. They’ve gone from a fierce battle in the east to another further north – without rest.

The heavy thuds of artillery grow louder when we arrive at their position, just a mile from the front line.

He added: "I think if you buy locally, what you're doing is you're helping a more sustainable food network. The benefit ...
22/04/2024

He added: "I think if you buy locally, what you're doing is you're helping a more sustainable food network. The benefit for buyers is that they're getting really fresh produce, and it has all the environmental credentials with it too."

Jess Kopp, Good Food Oxfordshire's network and communications lead, said the next steps for the project was to "to grow this platform and make it accessible and affordable for hospitals, for schools and for wider public institutions."

"We know that we can start to build up a big platform and then enable more public institutions to benefit."

A non-profit group is calling on university colleges to support local farmers and become more sustainable.Good Food Oxfo...
11/04/2024

A non-profit group is calling on university colleges to support local farmers and become more sustainable.

Good Food Oxfordshire has released a video as part of its campaign to encourage Oxford University colleges to sign up to its OxFarmToFork project.

The scheme aims to bolster local food producers and fight climate change by providing local and sustainable food.

18 of the university's 43 colleges are currently purchasing produce through the project.

Ben Gibbons, head chef at St Anne's College and master of the City of Oxford Guild of Chefs, said: "At Saint Anne's we're very big on wanting to do good for the environment, good for the local economy and I want to do the best for their customers because I'm a chef and I want to cook the best food."

After resident trainer Rasmus Blom gave me feedback on my middling technique, I decided to venture out into the loop alo...
20/03/2024

After resident trainer Rasmus Blom gave me feedback on my middling technique, I decided to venture out into the loop alone. The 8m-wide-by-4m-high concrete crescent was silent and ghostly around me. Except for my own ragged breath and the points of my ski poles hitting the snow and my skis gliding over it, I could hear only the fan system in the roof. Occasionally, the sounds of another skier betrayed their approach from around a bend. Light flooded down from strip lighting in the ceiling, interrupted by signs for emergency exits. But soon, all that faded away. As I continued around the loop, falling into the familiar chain of movements required to propel myself forward on the skis, I caught myself smiling.

But over the years, we have noticed a big problem: as temperatures across the country are rising more than twice as fast...
06/03/2024

But over the years, we have noticed a big problem: as temperatures across the country are rising more than twice as fast as the global average, there is less and less snow. So, people in Torsby decided to do something about it. As an official Vasaloppet training centre, as well as a partner of the Swedish cross-country team, the town offers training facilities for elite and recreational skiers alike. That's because inside Torsby's 1.3km-long concrete tunnel, you can cross-country ski eight months a year.

When the tunnel opened in June 2006, it was the culmination of years of work for Per-Åke Yttergård, the former head of the Swedish Ski Federation's department for Nordic skiing. As we sat in the complex's cafeteria, Yttergård told me he first heard of ski tunnels when one was being built in Finland in the 1990s. Initially, he was sceptical, but only until he saw it for himself. "I was picked up at the airport and we went straight to the tunnel," he remembered. "'Damn!' I thought. 'What a fool I am. It's real snow. Real skiing.'"

On a blustery December morning, I made my way through the small Swedish town of Torsby near the Norwegian border. I had ...
14/02/2024

On a blustery December morning, I made my way through the small Swedish town of Torsby near the Norwegian border. I had arrived well past midnight that same morning into a shadowy -13C winter wonderland. Now, snow crystals crunched under my feet as I ventured outside. I didn't so much walk as pulsa, the Swedish word for laboriously plodding through snow.

Considering my destination, the weather was rather ironic. I was on my way to the Torsby Ski Tunnel: arguably the largest man-made monument to Sweden's ongoing battle against the effects of global warming.

A former CIA officer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking a trove of classified hacking tools to whistle...
02/02/2024

A former CIA officer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking a trove of classified hacking tools to whistle-blowing platform Wikileaks.

Joshua Schulte was also found guilty of possessing child abuse images.

Prosecutors have accused him of leaking the CIA's "Vault 7" tools, which allow intelligence officers to hack smartphones and use them as listening devices.

They said the leak is one of the most "brazen" in US history.

Schulte, 35, shared some 8,761 documents to Wikileaks in 2017, amounting to the largest data breach in the history of the CIA, the US justice department said.

of a sign of life on a faraway planet.It may have detected a molecule called dimethyl sulphide (DMS). On Earth, at least...
18/01/2024

of a sign of life on a faraway planet.

It may have detected a molecule called dimethyl sulphide (DMS). On Earth, at least, this is only produced by life.

The researchers stress that the detection on the planet 120 light years away is "not robust" and more data is needed to confirm its presence.

Researchers have also detected methane and CO2 in the planet's atmosphere.

Detection of these gases could mean the planet, named K2-18b, has a water ocean.

Prof Nikku Madhusudhan, of the University of Cambridge, who led the research, told BBC News that his entire team were ''shocked'' when they saw the results.

"On Earth, DMS is only produced by life. The bulk of it in Earth's atmosphere is emitted from phytoplankton in marine environments," he said.

"As we said, the main wavelength for looking at these things - for looking at shocked molecular hydrogen - is 2.12 micro...
26/12/2023

"As we said, the main wavelength for looking at these things - for looking at shocked molecular hydrogen - is 2.12 microns, or roughly four times longer than the mid-visible. But for the first time, we now have a good colour image of this particular object because we're able to observe it at other wavelengths that you just couldn't see from ground telescopes. And that will help us get into what's really happening in the jets," said Prof McCaughrean.

Webb was intended to be transformative in many fields of astronomy, and the study of Herbig-Haro objects has definitely benefitted.

Look below and you can marvel at HH212's cousin, called HH211. This object, located in the Perseus constellation, is even younger, again measured in mere thousands of years. To think our Sun started out like this.

Imagine you could go back in time 4.6 billion years and take a picture of our Sun just as it was being born. What would ...
15/11/2023

Imagine you could go back in time 4.6 billion years and take a picture of our Sun just as it was being born. What would it look like?

Well, you can get a clue from this glorious new image acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Towards the centre of this object, called HH212, is a star coming into existence that is probably no more than 50,000 years old.

The scene would have looked much the same when our Sun was a similar age.

You can't actually see the glow from the protostar itself because it's hidden within a dense, spinning disc of gas and dust.

All you get are the pinky-red jets that it's shooting out in polar opposite directions.

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HH212 is sited in Orion, close to the three brilliant stars that make up the "belt" of the mythical hunter that gives the constellation its name. The distance from Earth is about 1,300 light-years.

Physics suggests those dramatic outflows of gas are the means by which the nascent star regulates its birthing.

"As the blobby ball of gas at the centre compacts down, it rotates. But if it rotates too fast, it will fly apart, so something has to get rid of the angular momentum," explained Prof Mark McCaughrean.

"We think it's jets and outflows. We think that as all the material shrinks down, magnetic fields are pulled together and then some of the material coming in through the disc gets captured on magnetic fields and is thrown out through the poles. That's why we call these structures bi-polar," the European Space Agency senior scientific advisor told BBC News.

The pinky-red colour denotes the presence of molecular hydrogen. That's two hydrogen atoms bonded together (rather like the "HH" in the protostar's name). Shockwaves are moving through the outflows, energising them and making them glow brightly in this Webb picture, which was captured predominantly at the infrared wavelength of 2.12 microns (that's the second part of the protostar's name!).

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