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Conservationists are calling for increased protection of seabeds and coastal habitats around Britain to protect underwater carbon stores in the battle against climate change.
They say almost 250 million tonnes of an organic matter called blue carbon lies locked in and undisturbed among the top 10cm of seabed sediment and in coastal saltmarsh, kelp and seagrass habitats - captured just like trees do on land.
Tech & Science Daily speaks with Tom Brook, blue carbon specialist at WWF-UK about the Blue Carbon Mapping Project, in conjunction with the Scottish Association for Marine Science, The Wildlife Trusts and RSPB.
Staying with climate change, and international experts fear the Thwaites Glacier - a vast area of the Antarctic ice sheet as big as Britain - continues to retreat and much of it could be lost by the 23rd century.
The volume of ice flowing into the sea from the glacier, which is 2,000 metres thick in places, and more than doubled from the 1990s to the 2010s.
Scientists at the University of Southampton have stored DNA information for an entire human on a crystal, which it’s proposed could be used to bring back humanity if we become extinct.
Lasers were used to cut data into the crystal - which can survive for billions of years, hold 360 terabytes of data and, unlike other digital formats, apparently doesn’t degrade over time.
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Child diabetes early warning test, anti-depressant research to treat brain tumours and why special bridges are being built for bison.
