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Black carbon persists across the planet, accelerating glacial melt : New research shows black carbon deposits vary across the planet, but persist in a variety of glacial ecosystems.

Space X the independent company that has its own space program yesterday announced that  they are to send two private citizens around the moon next year. They will begin training next year for the journey over a distance that changes with the position of the moon. this can be calculated here . Lift-off will be from Kennedy Space Centre's  historic Pad 39A near Cape Canaveral, the same as used for the Apollo  program. The Dragon 2 space vehicle will be used  after its trip to the International space centre.

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A New study suggest that the grooves on the Phobos moon are stress fractures caused by the gravity from Mars and its Moon reports NASA. This indicates that the moon is slowly being pulled apart slowly

 Solar radiation is on the increase around the world except for China According to  Scientific Reports  this is due to low winds and  pollution . Source  UPI.com     Scientific Reports Try Amazon Prime for 30 Days Free

The red squirrel has been declining in Britain over the last years with only a couple of hot spots . The grey squirrel has taken over due to it being bigger and passing on the squirrel pox virus. Kev Lewis/Flickr The Isle of  Anglesey  has now become another with all the grey squirrels being culled to leave the Island to the Reds. ( Sciurus vulgaris ) BBC

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has reported only the 3rd coral bleaching  global event. These events are caused by global warming and ocean pollution. More at   earthsky.org.