WWII shipwreck has leaked many pollutants into the sea, changing the ocean floor around it
(Picture: Frontiers in Marine Science)A professor of risk and disaster reduction from University College London has told Tech & Science Daily we should be concerned about shipwrecks, munition and even nuclear waste that was dumped in our seas and oceans after World War II.
Professor David Alexander’s responded to a report warning of toxic chemicals leaking from a WW2 Nazi patrol boat in the North Sea.
He said there are shipwrecks with weapons and explosives all over Europe which are at risk of leaking chemicals into the environment.
A UK research consortium has been given £2 million to tackle the global monkeypox outbreak.
Researchers will study the virus and look into the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine, which is being used to protect against monkeypox.
The funding will also go into developing tests to identify and manage the disease.
The co-founder of a project to create huge seaweed farms in our oceans to sequester carbon, says they’re giving nature a ‘helping hand’ to undo the climate change caused by humans.
John Auckland is behind the Seafields project designed to remove CO2 using compressed bales of a seaweed called Sargassum. He told Tech & Science Daily that they are planning to source untapped minerals under the seabed so that seaweed can grow in the middle of the Atlantic.
Plus, DNA analysis has found the genes that offered protection against the Black Death more than 700 years ago, fossils of giant ostrich-like dinosaurs found in North America, a ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid called Phaethon has started spinning more quickly, and a Melanistic Canada Lynx has been caught on camera for the first time.
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