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Blue Origin says rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and key launch pad parts

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin said Tuesday that last week’s rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and some other critical parts of the launch pad.

Critical to NASA's Artemis moon program, the company's massive New Glenn rocket blew up during an engine-firing test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A lightning tower and the transporter-erector used to move and hoist the rocket were destroyed in the blast that sent shock waves across the state.

CEO Dave Limp said the methane, hydrogen and oxygen tanks look to be in good shape. The water tank... Read More

AP exclusive: Under Notre Dame cathedral, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

PARIS (AP) — Wilting in the summer sun, a line of tourists waits to climb Notre Dame cathedral and meet its gargoyles.

Four meters (13 feet) beneath them, a team of archaeologists is digging the other way — straight down and back in time, to Roman Paris 2,000 years ago.

In 2019, fire brought Notre Dame’s spire crashing down as the world watched. The cathedral was rebuilt and reopened in late 2024, and now Paris wants to soften the hot, bare square in front of it with trees and shade.

But in a city this old, the soil cannot be turned until what lies... Read More

The UK government has set a target of an 87% cut in carbon emissions by 2042

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Tuesday that it's sticking to its net-zero goal, despite pressure on energy supplies from global conflicts, and will reduce the United Kingdom's planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 87% of 1990 levels in the next decade and a half.

The U.K. has a legally binding target, set in 2008, of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. By law, the government must legislate for emissions caps for future five-yearly budgets on a strict timetable.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said that the government will accept the advice of its... Read More

Meteor as heavy as an elephant causes widespread speculation across New England

When the double boom rang out in New England over the weekend, shaking homes and sending pets fleeing, questions started flooding social media.

“Did anyone else hear that boom?”

“Anyone feel that?”

NASA let people know over the weekend that the cause of the commotion was a meteor, but on Monday they revealed even more stunning details.

The fireball was as heavy as an elephant and 5 feet (1.52 meter) wide and was going 42,000 mph (67,592.5 kph) when it entered Earth’s atmosphere. It broke up miles above New England on Saturday and the... Read More

Wyomingâs âPath of the Pronghornâ is a signature away from protections sought for a quarter century

From afar, conservation biologist Joel Berger has tracked Wyoming’s long-lasting attempt to designate a migration corridor used by pronghorn that seasonally trek upwards of 150 miles from Interstate 80 all the way to Grand Teton National Park.

In the early 2000s, Berger, then a Jackson Hole resident, was among the loudest voices urging land and wildlife managers to take steps to ensure that pronghorn could continue moving across a fragmented landscape that was on the front end of the Pinedale Anticline and Jonah field natural gas boom.

In 2003, Berger authored a paper... Read More

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Blue Origin says rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and key launch pad parts

AP exclusive: Under Notre Dame cathedral, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

The UK government has set a target of an 87% cut in carbon emissions by 2042

Meteor as heavy as an elephant causes widespread speculation across New England

Wyomingâs âPath of the Pronghornâ is a signature away from protections sought for a quarter century