Astronaut Maj Peake said the falling cost of launching heavy cargoes into orbit means that complex structures, such as solar power farms, could soon be launched into space, and had the potential to provide significant power.
When US startup Make Sunsets released two weather balloons into the skies above Mexico’s Baja California peninsula last year, it kicked up a fierce debate about one of the world’s most controversial climate solutions.
If synthetic tetrataenite works in industrial applications, it could make green energy technologies significantly cheaper. It could also roil the market in rare earths.
Biologists struggle to single out a leading cause of the caribou population’s decline. “It’s going to be another rough winter again this year without caribou,” Selawik resident Norma Ballot said.
From his unique viewpoint hundreds of kilometres above Earth, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet said he felt helpless watching fires rage across the planet below, calling for more to be done to protect this fragile "island of life".
