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The new plane takes the form of an altered Tecnam P2006T, with the original aircraft’s combustion engines having been replaced with electric cruise motors

Carbon monoxide is a pollutant that can persist in the atmosphere for about a month and has implications for both air pollution and climate change

They aim to promote and implement the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) programme

The new technology will measure the height change of ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica ‘to within the width of a pencil’

The ‘Urban Air Mobility’ initiative could also include small package delivery drones

NASA has conducted successful initial tests of a small-scale nuclear fission system designed to power a long-duration manned mission to Mars. Officials from the agency have said a full-power run of the Kilopower project is scheduled for March. Its purpose is to enable robotic missions and potentially develop colonies in space, which requires a power […]

Recent increases in global methane levels are not necessarily due to rising greenhouse gas emissions. It could instead be due to changes in how long methane remains in the atmosphere after it is emitted, according to a new NASA and US Department of Energy-funded study. Methane is a colourless and odourless gas and the second […]

NASA has confirmed biofuels can reduce jet engine pollution by as much as 70%. Its research concluded particle emissions from plane exhausts can be greatly decreased by using a 50:50 blend of aviation fuel and a renewable alternative produced from plant oil. As well as cutting Carbon Dioxide emissions, the mix also saw a significant […]

NASA has launched a research programme to build electric planes. It will test a new propulsion technology using an experimental airplane called X-57 and nicknamed “Maxwell”. Maxwell’s original wing and two gas-fuelled piston engines will be replaced with a long, skinny wing embedded with 14 electric motors. Engineers hope to achieve a five-time reduction in the energy required […]

NASA has revealed how water storage on land has affected the rate of rise in sea levels. That’s due to climate, its report stated. While ice sheets and glaciers are melting, changes in weather in the past decade have caused Earth’s continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, […]