The Commerce Department has released a new set of rules aimed at making the procedure for licensing Earth-imaging satellite systems more in tune with what's technically possible and commercially available on the global market. The regulatory streamlining effort was one of the initiatives sparked by Space Policy Directive 2 back in 2018. The need for such streamlining came to the fore earlier...
An analysis shows a huge daily CO2 drop, but a return to car travel may see emissions...
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In an order released Monday, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith agreed that the telegraph is historically and culturally important and could soon be lost within the rapidly decaying wreck site. Smith wrote that recovering the telegraph “will contribute to the legacy left by the indelible loss of the Titanic, those who survived, and those who gave their lives in the sinking." Smith is the...
EU plan for 3bn trees in 10 years to tackle biodiversity crisisConcern that new strategy, which also includes protecting primeval forests, ‘lacks...
Palaeontologists say the remains date back 70 million years, close to the end of the...