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  Government falling 'far short' on   environmental targets Government efforts to improve England's environment and to protect the natural world are falling "far short" of what is needed, a watchdog has warned. A report by the independent Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) also says the country is facing a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity". It found many of the government's 23 environmental targets were at significant risk of not being achieved. The government said it would consider the report carefully. The study assessed 32 environmental areas - from species numbers to air and water quality improvements - and found nine trends were improving, 11 were static, and eight were deteriorating. In four areas, there was not enough data to make a reliable assessment. "The situation is poor across the board, with adverse trends across marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments," it said. Of the 23 environmental targets it look...

  James Webb telescope traces arcs of dusty star formation There is gas being energised in this picture to temperatures of 10,000C. In contrast, Webb also detects cold gas at -200C. Astronomers refer to "metals" when discussing all elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. It's the stuff that goes into making planets. One of the big questions, therefore, has centred on whether low metallicity environments, such as in NGC 346, have sufficient dusty material to accrete and build rocky worlds. Webb's observations of the cluster indicate they certainly have the potential. Even the smallest protostars detected in the image have discs of dust around them. And by extension, this suggested planet formation would also have been possible in the early Universe, at Cosmic Dawn, explained Dr Margaret Meixner, an astronomer at the Universities Space Research Association in Maryland, US. "The metallicity in the Small Magellanic Cloud is comparable to the peak epoch of star for...

  Use this Intel app to sync your Android, iPhone with Windows 11 PC While you can link your Android phone with your Windows 11 PC, including your Galaxy laptop, through Microsoft’s Phone Link app, there wasn’t any way to link an iPhone to your Windows PC. Well, Intel now has a solution for it. Intel has announced the Unison app for Android, iOS, and Windows, which will allow you to link your smartphones, even iOS devices, with your Windows PC. The app was announced back in November 2022, but now it is finally available. Although Intel claims that the Unison app is available for “ select Intel Evo Intel 12th Gen laptops “, folks at  WindowsCentral  were able to install the Intel Unison app on other PCs as well, including Qualcomm ARM-based ones. The app can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store. In order to pair your Android or iOS device with your Windows PC, you need to have the Intel Unison app both on your PC and your...