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INTERNET BY BALLOON

2016, DATE TBC

Google’s status within the online world

looks set to soar in 2016, as its internet-

delivering Project Loon takes off. Each

helium-filled, polyethylene balloon is

capable of beaming wireless internet

across 80km of land by tapping into the

telecommunication networks of phone

providers and relaying it to the ground

via radio antennae. The short-term aim

is to connect up 300 balloons in a ring

around the southern hemisphere.

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HOPE TO REINTRODUCE

THE EURASIAN LYNX

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GO WILD FOR CATS 2016 , DATE TBC

Big cat sightings in the UK are taken about as seriously as

Bigfoot sightings in North America. But in 2016, scientists and

conservationists hope to reintroduce the Eurasian lynx to selected

sites across England and Scotland. Though common across the

rest of Europe, the cat has been absent from the UK for over 1, 300

years, after being hunted to extinction. It is roughly twice the size

of a domestic cat.

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