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Weather Forecast: Mainly dry with sunny spells and light winds.

By theorkneynews on April 13, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

A mostly dry and bright day with sunny periods.

Tak A Stand: ‘It Does Happen Here’

By theorkneynews on April 13, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The Tak A Stand exhibition by Chloe Wooldrage is on all this week in the Garden buildings car park, Bridge Street, Kirkwall.

“It’s like a giant cork being removed from a bottle”: Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf

By theorkneynews on April 13, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

More than a third of the Antarctic’s ice shelf area could be at risk of collapsing into the sea if global temperatures reach 4°C above pre-industrial levels, new research has shown.

The Missing Voters

By theorkneynews on April 13, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Shocking figures have revealed that between 630,000-890,000 voters are no longer registered to vote in Scotland.

Where is Mars’s water?

By theorkneynews on April 13, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The lake-bed sediments of Gale Crater on Mars from NASA’s Curiosity rover (credit: NASA/JPL, California Institute of Technology)

Weather Forecast: Cold and bright with a few wintry showers.

By theorkneynews on April 12, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

It will be a mainly dry, bright day with some good spells of sunshine and the odd wintry shower.

The Beat Goes On

By Dream Angus on April 12, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy for brain cancer during a global pandemic my journey continues.

Innovative Future for Flotta as Green Hydrogen Hub Say Scottish Greens

By theorkneynews on April 12, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“The Flotta terminal has a working life left of less than a decade, but it could have an innovative future as for example a Green hydrogen hub, and we’d be delighted if that scenario transpires.”

Developing an ‘Ocean Tricorder’

By theorkneynews on April 12, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

 “An “Ocean Tricorder” – like the science-fiction tricorder of the Star Trek universe that can quickly assess properties of interest in real-time – would allow us to record all lifeforms in a specific part of an ocean at the push of a button.”

The Life and Times of The Cairns

By theorkneynews on April 12, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

The excavation at the Iron Age site at The Cairns, South Ronaldsay, is the subject of the next talk hosted by the Orkney Archaeology Society.

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