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From Shetlands to Azores, Europe's Space Race Takes Off

Projects to develop space centers that can launch satellites into Earth's orbit are sprouting up around Europe, amid the soaring popularity of small rockets and the commercialization of space. By the end of this year, Spanish start-up PLD Space expects to launch its Miura-1 mini-rocket from the El Arenosillo site…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes Indonesia - USGS

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Abepura in Indonesia on Thursday, United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Bangkok Post

Asian teams 'getting closer' despite Cup knockout blows

Doha: Asian teams came crashing back down to earth in the World Cup last 16 but the region still enjoyed its best-ever tournament to suggest it is closing the gap on the global elite.

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U.N. summit on nature presents chance for 'once-in-a-decade' deal

Climate campaigners waved placards and chanted pro-nature slogans on Wednesday as a U.N. summit kicks off in Montreal, bringing together global negotiators for a "once-in-a-decade opportunity" to protect nature.

Reuters

The oldest DNA ever found reveals a snapshot of a vanished world

At the icy northern tip of Greenland, far into the Artic Circle, a deep bed of sediment beneath the mouth of a fjord has lain frozen and undisturbed for 2 million years.

The Conversation

‘Fate of the living world’ will be decided at Cop15, say scientists

Leading researchers say the UN biodiversity summit is ‘vastly more important’ than the recent Cop27 climate meeting

The Guardian - UK

Oldest-known DNA reveals life in a much warmer Greenland 2 million years ago (including, surprise, mastodons)

The research revealed an ancient ecosystem unlike anything seen on Earth today, including traces of mastodons and horseshoe crabs roaming the Arctic.

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50 years since the last Apollo astronauts went to the moon, NASA is finally going back

December 7, 1972 was the launch of the final mission in NASA's Apollo moon program. Fifty years later, NASA finally seems poised to return people to the lunar surface.

WEKU

Britain's 1,000 coldest neighbourhoods revealed - see if your town is in top 50 here

Friends of the Earth is calling on the UK government to commit to a street-by-street insulation programme to keep people warm and well, while cutting bills and harmful carbon emissions

Daily Mirror

Book of the Week: A masterpiece for young readers

A literary vodka for kids.

Newsroom.co.nz

Race against time to save boy, 8, after he plummeted 55ft down a well

Tanmay Sagu, 8, was playing with friends on Tuesday in Madhya Pradesh when he fell into a borewell - a deep hole farmers use to extract water from the earth during the dry months

Daily Mirror

Top 10 polar photobooks

From Stefan Christman’s absorbing studies of emperor penguins to Sebastião Salgado’s stunning images of unpeopled wilderness, these are richly rewarding voyages for armchair explorers

The Guardian - UK

Apocalyptic asteroid found near Venus

The area between Venus and Earth is difficult to observe because of the Sun's glare

Salon

This ecologist has an audacious plan to build forests on Mars — here’s how

One ecologist says yes -- in about a hundred years -- but Martian forests are going to look pretty strange.

Inverse

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Al Jazeera

‘Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction’: UN

UN chief Antonio Guterres says the COP15 talks on biodiversity must stop humanity from ‘committing suicide by proxy’.

Radio France Internationale

NASA's Artemis-1 capsule bound for Earth after historic lunar flyby

NASA’s Orion space capsule is heading back to Earth after a lunar approach that saw it come within 130 kilometres of the Moon’s surface.

The Conversation

Avoiding climate breakdown depends on protecting Earth’s biodiversity -- can the COP15 summit deliver?

Thousands of delegates have gathered in Montreal, Canada, for a once-in-a-decade chance to address the accelerating pace of species loss and the dangers of ecosystem breakdown.

The Conversation

The first photograph of the entire globe: 50 years on, Blue Marble still inspires

December 7 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Blue Marble photograph. The crew of NASA’s Apollo 17 spacecraft – the last manned mission to the Moon – took a photograph of Earth and changed the way we visualised our planet forever.

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The solar system's strangest objects are unlocking its history

Odd objects in the solar system could unlock its mysteries.

Irish Mirror

Government's 0.3% vacant property tax is 'laughable', Dail hears

'If the value of your home will increase by more than 10% if you leave it vacant, how on earth is a tax of 0.3% an incentive to bring it back into use?'

The Conversation

COP15: three visions for protecting nature on the table at the UN biodiversity conference

With the dust still settling on the UN climate change summit in Egypt, another round of international talks is beginning in Montreal, Canada. The UN biodiversity conference, otherwise known as COP15, will assemble world leaders to agree on new targets for protecting nature.

Evening Standard

Tech & Science Daily podcast: Nasa’s Orion moon probe is Earth-ward bound

It’s the home stretch for Nasa’s Orion space capsule, which made a final lap around the moon before heading back to Earth while testing systems for a 2024 human lunar mission.

The Guardian - AU

Queensland graziers unearth 100m-year-old plesiosaur remains likened to Rosetta Stone

Amateur fossil hunters find skull connected to body of marine giant elasmosaur for the first time in Australia

Daily Mirror

Prince William and Kate Middleton look smitten in loved-up behind the scenes snaps

Prince William and Kate Middleton have shared a series of loved up photos on their social media accounts that were taken behind the scenes at the Earthshot Prize Awards during their trip to Boston

The Conversation

Native Hawaiians believe volcanoes are alive and should be treated like people, with distinct rights and responsibilities

Hawaii’s largest and oldest volcano, Mauna Loa, began erupting on Nov. 27, 2022, with lava flowing miles away downhill. The last eruption, which lasted three weeks, was nearly 40 years ago.

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