supercomputer has predicted that more than a quarter of the world’s animals and plants will go extinct by the end of the century.
This extinction ‘cascade’ means children born today might be the last generation to see animals such as elephants or koalas.
Researchers from Flinders University in Adelaide say the world is undergoing its ‘sixth mass extinction event’ driven by global warming and changes to land use.
The Met Office says that 2023 will be even warmer in the UK than 2022 – and one of the hottest years on record.
Predictions suggest it will be the 10th year in a row the global temperature is at least 1C above average.
A tech firm trying to decarbonise the UK’s food supply chain believes AI will take over a lot of monotonous jobs in farming in the future.
Tech & Science Daily spoke to Fotis Fotiadis the CEO of Better Origin, who is calling on the government to adopt their technology across the UK.
Stem cells have been used to regenerate a baby’s heart in what’s thought to be a ‘world first’, trees store ‘twice as much carbon’ as once thought and scientists have created a ‘skin’ that lets you ‘touch’ things in the metaverse .
Plus, a rescued turtle that would not have survived in the wild gets a new home and Cyberpunk 2077 gets cozy for Christmas with onesies for its characters.
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