From plane crashes to exotic illnesses, the resident medical team at Charles de Gaulle airport has dealt with every type of travel emergency. This week in HEALTH we spend a morning with the men and women who manage the health needs of sixty million passengers each year.
Radio not working? Internet on the blink? It could be because radiation from the largest solar flare in four years has reached earth. Solar flares are intense, short-lived bursts of energy, and can cause interference with communication devices.
A partial solar eclipse on Tuesday that began over the Middle East and extended across Europe was the first such event of 2011. Up to two-thirds of the sun was obscured by the moon in parts of Switzerland, where the eclipse was best viewed.
INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Monday, 20th December 2010: papers are covering Europe’s snow chaos. Some angles are upbeat: Brits can bet on a White Christmas, Germans will have great snow on the slopes. That, and a biopic to look forward to on the life of Burma’s pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
A total solar eclipse over the Pacific on Sunday drew thousands to the Chilean outpost of Easter Island to watch as the moon aligned with the earth to blot out the sun for several minutes, plunging the region into darkness at midday.
Could this be the future of the aviation industry? A solar-powered aircraft that can fly both day and night has taken off, as more and more inventors try to harness the power of the sun. While it's not the first time a plane powered solely by the sun has become airborne, it could lead to the first time such an aircraft has circumnavigated the globe.
What if our own sun could help solving the effect of climate change? Some scientists are saying that the sun is actually getting colder and could counterbalance the warming...
The World Health Organisation has reclassified sunbeds, used mainly by people in northern Europe and the US for tanning purposes, to the highest cancer risk category, along with cigarettes and asbestos.
Every 40 minutes enough sunlight falls on earth to potentially provide humanity with a years worth of energy.
In this show we'll be looking at the value of the sun.
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