A leaked text message from Mr Corbyn urged activists to help a hard-Left crony win a seat on the party’s National Executive Committee. It was read out at a private meeting two weeks ago.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has opened is plant in the Netherlands specifically designed to extract oxygen from moondust.

(Bloomberg) — Glencore Plc is negotiating a long-term contract to ship cobalt to Tesla Inc.’s new electric-vehicle factory in Shanghai, according to people familiar with the matter.A deal would help Tesla avoid a supply squeeze on the key battery metal as it pushes into the world’s largest car market, and mark a win for Glencore […]

Four nuclear reactors being built in the United Arab Emirates could spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and leave the Persian Gulf at risk of a Chernobyl-style disaster, a leading nuclear scientist has claimed. In a report, Dr Paul Dorfman, chairman of the Nuclear Consulting Group, warned the UAE's Barakah nuclear power […]

An earthquake struck Iran on Friday less than 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the country’s only nuclear power plant, monitors said. The US Geological Survey said the 5.1 magnitude quake struck 44 kilometres (27 miles) from the southwestern city of Borazjan and at a depth of 38 kilometres. Its reported epicentre is 45 kilometres east […]

Would you like some soy leghemoglobin with your Impossible Burger? Impossible Burger, a rival to Beyond Meat Inc (NASDAQ: BYND), includes soy leghemoglobin in its plant-based food to mimic the “bleeding” characteristic of a beef burger. The ingredient is “controversial” because it is a genetically engineered by combining soy protein with genetically engineered yeast, according […]

Long before the movie Avatar got us thinking about plants and animals communicating, scientists knew there was more going on with greenery than house plants grooving to Mozart. Now they’ve proven it, and we can all feel the worse for their findings. That organic carrot you had for lunch? It probably cried out for help […]

RACCOON TOWNSHIP, Ind./NEW YORK (Reuters) – When the U.S. ethanol industry was booming, Indiana farmer Paul Hodgen made good money selling about a quarter of his crop to a local facility that produced the corn-based fuel. Now that plant has stopped churning out ethanol and has instead converted to a grain elevator for storage, Hodgen […]

U.S. energy regulators approved Tellurian Inc’s request to start site preparation work at its proposed $27.5 billion Driftwood liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in Louisiana. The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) said on Wednesday that Driftwood could start vegetation clearing and grading, demolition and removal of existing buildings, and dredging of marine berths, […]

The U.S. Army plans to fund construction of rare earths processing facilities, part of an urgent push by Washington to secure domestic supply of the minerals used to make military weapons and electronics, according to a government document seen by Reuters.