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Top 10 Fascinating Stories Involving Nuclear Explosions
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The 1940s through to the 1960s saw nuclear attacks and tests that revealed the terrifying power of these devices. The World War II bombing of Hiroshima is famous but few realize what it did to the pilots of Enola Gay or that Australia was hit by a bomb twice as big. At the bizarre end of things, meet the guy who got nuked twice and the scientists who bombed beer and then drank it.
Albatross expert Dr Henri Weimerskirch, of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), turned his favourite seabirds into spies two years ago by fixing them up with loggers that could detect the radar of illegal fishing vessels. The information from this project, known as
, has helped governments select which parts of the ocean to patrol. But Dr Weimerskirch wanted to recruit another, possibly better, species to stealth operations. In late 2020, he returned to the remote Kerguelen Islands, in the southern Indian Ocean, to see if they would cooperate. He told Horizon about his expedition.
The work two years ago went very well but at that time we were using wandering albatrosses. Black-browed albatrosses are more attracted by fishing vessels so I thought they might give us more information.
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Frank Turner at the opening event in 2020.The AmericanaClash, which kicked off Americanafest 2020, raised money for the local homeless charity.
Americanafest UK is just over two weeks away, Jan 26-28. For the first time it ll be an all-digital event, which includes the UK Americana Awards 2021 ceremony.
Aside from planning out this unique edition, the UK Americana Music Association has been busy during the COVID crisis, hosting online seminars for its members via Zoom on various topics, including online songwriting, how to access funding, optimizing YouTube channels and other tools for survival in times of hardly any live income.
Recently, British Petroleum (BP) went public in declaring that “peak oil demand” was reached in 2019. According to the oil major’s 2020 outlook, global oil demand will not regain levels reached last year, and that demand could soon fall rapidly, due to stronger climate action by countries, by at least 10% over the next 10 years, and up to 50% by 2040.
Demand for the fossil fuel has doubled over the past 50 years, reaching around 100 million barrels of oil per day (bopd) in 2019.
While earlier editions of BP’s outlook stated that global demand would continue rising steadily, peaking in the mid-2030s, the latest version sees the decline as much more dramatic, with peak demand already reached in 2019, and either slowing down or plateauing over the next three decades.