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Suzy Hazelwood/Public Domain Parag Khanna is founder and managing partner of FutureMap, and author most recently of The Future is Asian. Kailash K. Prasad is director of research at FutureMap and an editor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The coronavirus is upending our jobs, canceling our pastimes…

About 900 years ago, a skywatcher in England witnessed a total lunar eclipse that must have been baffling, even terrifying. Despite the fact that the night was clear and the stars shone bright, the Moon just...vanished. During the unusually dark ecliptic blackout, the Moon was “so completely extinguished withal, that…

Last Updated: 11th May, 2020 15:06 IST Scientists believe that by the year 2100 if Earth’s surface warms by another 3.5 degrees then sea levels are likely to rise by as much as 1.3 meters. Leading experts believe that by the year 2100 if Earth’s surface warms by another 3.5 degrees then…

Image for representation. About ten percent of the world's population, or 770 million people, today live on land less than five metres above the high tide line. News18.com Last Updated: May 11, 2020, 8:11 AM IST Share this: Oceans are likely to rise as much as 1.3 metres by 2100…

Ísland á filmu (Iceland on Film) is your opportunity to gallivant around Iceland in space and time, via the medium of nearly three hundred old films, of varying age and length, stored and digitized by the Icelandic Film Museum. Many are home movies, but there are also documentaries and newsreel…

Photo: APMost of the buzz around the damage covid-19 pandemic has had done to aviation has centered around passenger travel. That’s not surprising, as fears about transmission through travel and just sitting aboard planes are not unfounded and flights have cratered as a result. But while passengers are staying home,…

Air France and KLM are pressing ahead with retiring their A340s and 747s despite low fuel prices diminishing the need for more efficient aircraft. “We’ve pushed these airplanes pretty much to their limit,” Group CEO Benjamin Smith said. “They can fly longer, but the ability to do so will require…

Paris (AFP) - Oceans are likely to rise as much as 1.3 metres by 2100 if Earth's surface warms another 3.5 degrees Celsius, scientists warned Friday.By 2300, when ice sheets covering West Antarctica and Greenland will have shed trillions of tonnes in mass, sea levels could go up by more…

Join Plus+ and get exclusive shows and extensions! Subscribe Today! The year 1110 CE is noteworthy for a few big events – battles of the Crusades were being fought everywhere, King Henry V of Germany married the 8-year-old Matilda, daughter of King Henry I of England, who was busy adding…

Applications 08/05/2020 1387 views 54 likes 438885 ID 00:03:33 This week's edition of the Earth from Space programme features an icy image of Northwest Greenland captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission.See also Northwest Greenland to download the image. ESA - European Space Agency Closed captions available Captions and subtitles are available (automatically generated…