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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaSolar Eclipse 2024: The world’s eclipse chasers arrive in North AmericaPublished4 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Kate RussoImage caption, Australian psychologist Kate Russo has seen 13 total solar eclipses since 1999By Nadine YousifBBC NewsIt was 25 years ago when Kate Russo saw her very first total solar eclipse. The Australian psychologist was living in Northern Ireland at the time and had always wanted to witness the spectacle in person.She was in between her Masters and PhD studies in her 20s when, in 1999, the path of totality happened to cross nearby over the southern coast of France. “I thought it was going to be just my first – my only – experience of an eclipse,” Ms Russo said. “Something you haven’t experienced and then you do and you’re like, ‘that’s pretty cool.'”Instead, what she saw that day changed her life forever, sparking a life-long journey of studying and chasing solar eclipses around the globe. When is the 2024 solar eclipse and how can I watch it?On Monday, Ms Russo will watch her 14th total solar eclipse, this time in Uvalde, Texas. She is one of many eclipse chasers who have arrived in North America in recent days. Experts estimate that more than a million people from inside and outside North America will travel towards the path of totality. Many are individuals who have combined their love of astronomy, exploration, science and travel into a mission to see as many eclipses in their lifetime as possible. Some are driven by their love of space and desire to understand the universe around them. Others, like Ms Russo, pursue the indescribable feeling that comes with seeing a total solar eclipse in person. The 51-year-old recalled how standing in the shadow of the moon for the first time was an “immersive and emotional” experience.A total solar eclipse, by definition, occurs when the moon’s shadow covers the sun’s rays entirely, plunging those in the shadow’s path into darkness for a few minutes. But Ms Russo said experiencing it was much more than that.She described feeling a drop in temperature and the wind picking up around her, as if a storm was approaching. She also noticed the colours of her surroundings being drained in the absence of the sun’s rays, except for an orange, reddish glow around the horizon and a thin ring of light in the sky – also known as the corona. “Moments before you’re looking at the sun,” she said of the moment the eclipse begins. “Now, there’s just a hole in the sky where the sun should be. It’s like everything is turned upside down.”Ms Russo said the experience inspired her to study people’s emotional response to witnessing a total solar eclipse.Almost always, she said, there is a predictable sequence in which people take-in an eclipse: it begins with a sense of wrongness and primal fear, followed by a feeling of connectedness and insignificance. Then comes the euphoria, and the desire to repeat those feelings all over again. Even those who are more scientifically-minded, she noticed, can’t help but stare at an eclipse with awe. “Regardless of culture or your language, people have that same experience and it makes them feel part of something greater.” It is a feeling that David Makepeace, another eclipse chaser from Toronto, Canada, knows very well. Mr Makepeace, 61, who is about to catch his 19th solar eclipse, said the experience evokes existential questions for him. “How could we possibly live in a solar system that is that beautiful? That has that much of an emotional punch to it?” he’s wondered. “How could that possibly be?” Paul Maley, a 76-year-old retired data analyst and flight control specialist who worked at NASA for 41 years, said the desire to chase an eclipse is akin to an addiction of sorts.”Once you get to see something that is this unique, you want more of it,” he said. Image source, Patrick PoitevinImage caption, A photo captured by Patrick Poitevin during a total solar eclipse in Indonesia in March 2016Mr Maley, who lives in Arizona, has seen 83 eclipses since 1970 – including annual, partial and total solar eclipses – across 42 countries. His love of chasing them inspired him to launch a tourism company which takes dozens of people on trips to see eclipses around the world. Some of his guests are seasoned, he said. Others are catching their very first eclipse. To mark the 8 April event, Mr Maley launched a boat cruise off the coast of Cabo San Lucas in Mexico with nearly 200 passengers. Being on the water gives him mobility should the cloud cover change, he said, offering him the best possible chance of capturing a spectacular eclipse. Also en route to Mexico is British eclipse chaser and retired material scientist Patrick Poitevin, who is on a quest to catch his 26th total solar eclipse. Mr Poitevin, who lives in Derbyshire, said he often tries to combine his love of scientific innovation and astronomy when chasing eclipses – challenging himself with different projects or views for each one he catches. But for this upcoming eclipse, he said he intends to sit back and watch with only a pair of binoculars in hand. Mr Poitevin noted how this particular eclipse is slated to last four and a half minutes in Mexico. This, he said, will give him and others the chance to take in the view – maybe spot a few planets, stars, and even a comet. For those catching their first-ever solar eclipse this year, the seasoned chasers had one piece of advice: put away the camera and enjoy the moment. Fiddling with something, like a camera or a phone, lessens the experience, Mr Makepeace said.”You’re busy with something else while the best thing in the world is happening over your head.”More on the solar eclipseEXPLAINER: All you need to know for the 2024 solar eclipseWATCH: How to see it without injuring your eyesPATH OF DARKNESS: Scroll the route of total eclipseSCIENCE: Rare experiments will study Sun’s atmosphereFANATICS: How much it costs to chase the eclipseAWE: How it affects the brain and brings people together Related TopicsAstronomyEclipsesMore on this storyWhen is the solar eclipse and how can I watch it?Published17 hours agoSolar eclipse spectacle set to grip North America againPublished22 MarchTop StoriesIsrael urged to publish full report on aid team deathsPublished5 hours agoSix months on, how close is Israel to eliminating Hamas?Published6 hours agoWatch: Moment New York landmarks shaken by earthquake. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityBusinessMarket DataEconomyYour MoneyCompaniesTechnology of BusinessCEO SecretsArtificial IntelligenceWhy Trump may reap billions in Truth Social stock market mergerPublished1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesBy Natalie ShermanBusiness reporter, New YorkDonald Trump appears to be scrambling for funds to pay a $464m (£365m) fraud fine. Could the stock market ride to his rescue? Trump Media, which runs the social media platform Truth Social, is poised to become a publicly listed company, with shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp set to vote on Friday on whether to acquire it. Mr Trump would have a stake of at least 58% in the merged company, worth more than $3bn at Digital World’s current share prices. Digital World, or DWAC (pronounced D-whack), is what is known as a SPAC, or a shell business created expressly to buy another firm and take it public.It’s an astonishing potential windfall for Mr Trump in exchange for a business whose own auditor warned last year it was at risk of failure. Never mind the many red flags associated with the deal, including unresolved lawsuits from former business partners. There’s also an $18m settlement that Digital World agreed to pay last year to resolve fraud charges over how the merger plan came together. Backers of Digital World – the vast majority of whom are individual investors instead of Wall Street firms, many apparently Trump loyalists – seem undaunted. “This is putting your money where your mouth is for free speech, to save your country, potentially losing it all,” Chad Nedohin, a deal supporter, said recently on his show DWAC Live, on the video platform Rumble. If the purchase is approved, which is expected, shares will start trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker DJT.The deal is unlikely to immediately resolve Mr Trump’s most pressing financial issues, such as his New York fraud penalty. The former president is barred from selling his shares for at least six months – though the new company could grant him an exemption. Mr Trump could try to get a loan, backed by the value of the shares. But in this case, analysts said a bank would probably lend him significantly less than the shares are worth on paper, given the potential risks of the business.That hasn’t stopped some of his supporters hoping their backing will help. Mr Nedohin, who identifies himself on his website as a Canadian “worship leader” and goes by Captain DWAC on Truth Social, declined to be interviewed. But on his show this week he urged investors to approve the deal, speculating it could help the president in his legal battles. “If the merger is complete Friday at 10am and Trump all of a sudden has 120 million shares of DJT that’s worth three, four, five $10bn, who knows? He could easily leverage that to get a loan,” he said. The risk that Digital World shareholders will lose money on their investment is significant, according to analysts.Shares in the company are currently trading at nearly $43 apiece. That’s down from the highs it reached after the plans to purchase Trump Media were announced. But it still implies Trump Media has a value of more than $5bn, which is a lot given it brought in just $3.3m in revenue in the first nine months of last year and lost nearly $50m. The merger will provide an influx of more than $200m in cash to Trump Media, which it could use for growth and expansion.But for now Truth Social, which launched to the general public in 2022, branding itself as an alternative to major social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, remains small. It claims about 8.9 million sign-ups and in regulatory filings Trump Media warns prospective investors that it does not track metrics like user growth or engagement that could give them a sense of its operations. And it says it has little intention of doing so. Outside firms estimate Truth Social received about 5 million visits in February. By comparison, Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, and recently valued by one investor at about $14bn, received more than 100 million. Analysts said Digital World was a prime example of a “meme stock”, in which the share price is divorced from a company’s fundamentals – and near-destined to fall, eventually.”With Trump Media, I expect that it will collapse but whether it’s going to occur a week from now or two years from now and how rapidly … those things are really difficult to predict,” said University of Florida finance professor Jay Ritter, who tracks public listings. Marco Iachini, senior vice-president of research at Vanda Securities, said individual investors piled into Digital World stock after the Trump deal was announced, and again in January, after he won the Iowa primary. This week, he said there’s been less activity, a sign that professional firms may be the ones driving the trading. Whatever is motivating buyers, Mr Trump, whose main contributions to Trump Media have been his name and posts on the platform, appears poised to be the top beneficiary. “It’s an enormous transfer of value from [investors]… to Trump, which stands to be extremely lucrative for him,” says Michael Ohlrogge, a law professor at New York University who has studied listings of companies such as Trump Media. Related TopicsMergers and acquisitionsInternational BusinessDonald TrumpUnited StatesMore on this storyTrump needs a $464m bond. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaTrump unable to get $464m bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers sayPublished58 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Mr Trump’s lawyers say they have approached dozens of bond companies but cannot secure oneBy Madeline HalpertBBC News, New YorkDonald Trump cannot find a private company to guarantee the $464m (£365m) he has been ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud case.The former president must either pay the full amount in cash or secure a bond in order to continue his appeal. Mr Trump’s lawyers said on Monday that securing a bond of that size was a “practical impossibility”.For a fee, a bonding company would guarantee the full amount to the New York court.They would then have to pay it if Mr Trump loses his appeal and cannot do so himself. Mr Trump’s team spent “countless hours negotiating with one of the largest insurance companies in the world”, the lawyers wrote in a court filing, but concluded that “very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude”.The lawyers said they had approached 30 companies without success.Mr Trump’s two eldest sons also must pay millions of dollars in the case.Along with ordering Mr Trump to pay the penalty, New York Judge Arthur Engoron banned him from running any businesses in the state for three years after he found the former president falsely inflated assets to secure better loan deals. A judge paused Mr Trump’s business ban last month, but denied his bid to provide a smaller bond amount, $100m, to cover the fine. In the latest filing, the former president’s lawyers included an affidavit from a president of a private insurance firm, who said that “simply put, a bond of this size is rarely, if ever, seen”.”In the unusual circumstance that a bond of this size is issued, it is provided to the largest public companies in the world, not to individuals or privately held businesses,” the lawyers also said.Mr Trump’s unprecedented legal situation makes it difficult to predict next steps, said former federal prosecutor Diana Florence, who also said that penalties on this scale are usually levied against large companies.His legal team has been playing a delay game as he appeals the verdict, she said, but now “he might be out of rope”. New York’s attorney general has vowed to seize his assets if he does not pay the fraud judgement. There is also interest on the penalty hanging over his head, which is accruing by at least $112,000 per day until he pays. Trump’s lawyers said bond companies would not accept “hard assets such as real estate as collateral” for the bond, but only cash or “cash equivalents”, such as investments that can be quickly liquidated. “He’s facing the very real possibility that the AG will begin to liquidate [his assets], and he’s really dependent on whether a court is willing to give him more time,” Ms Florence said. According to a Forbes estimate, Mr Trump is worth about $2.6bn. He also testified last year that he had $400m in liquid assets.But the $464m judgement is not his only expense. He was ordered to pay $83m in January after losing a defamation case to E Jean Carroll, a woman he was found to have sexually abused. He has already posted a bond in that case. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityScience & EnvironmentClimate change: The ‘insane’ plan to save the Arctic’s sea-icePublished37 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsClimateImage source, Real IceImage caption, Saving the ice – a daring experiment or a dangerous distraction?By Mark PoyntingBBC News climate reporterPerched on sea-ice off Canada’s northern coast, parka-clad scientists watch saltwater pump out over the frozen ocean.Their goal? To slow global warming.As sea-ice vanishes, the dark ocean surface can absorb more of the Sun’s energy, which accelerates warming. So the researchers want to thicken it to stop it melting away.Welcome to the wackier side of geoengineering – deliberately intervening in the Earth’s climate system to try to counteract the damage we have done to it.Polar bears face starvation as ice meltsMore snow and rain is falling in the ArcticHottest February marks ninth new monthly record in a rowGeoengineering includes more established efforts to lock up planet-warming gases, such as planting more trees and burying carbon underground.But more experimental measures aim to go a step further, seeking to reduce the energy absorbed by the Earth.Many scientists are strongly opposed, warning that such attempts distract from the critical step of cutting carbon emissions and risk doing more harm than good.But a small number of advocates claim their approaches could give the planet a helping hand while humanity cleans up its act.The ultimate goal of the Arctic experiment is to thicken enough sea-ice to slow or even reverse the melting already seen, says Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, whose team at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Climate Repair is behind the project.Will it work or is it, as one scientist put it, “quite insane”?”We don’t actually know enough to determine whether this is a good idea or bad idea,” admits Dr Fitzgerald.Image source, Real IceImage caption, “It’s quite cold,” the researchers say. Wind chill in Cambridge Bay can make it feel like -45CThe researchers have been braving bitter conditions in Cambridge Bay, a tiny Canadian village in the Arctic Circle.”It’s quite cold,” Andrea Ceccolini of Real Ice, a British company leading the trip, tells me via a patchy Zoom connection from inside a flapping white tent.”It’s about -30C with a strong wind, which brings the temperature to -45C with wind chill factor.”They are drilling a hole in the sea-ice that naturally forms in winter, and pumping around 1,000 litres of seawater per minute across the surface. Exposed to the cold winter air, this seawater quickly freezes, helping to thicken the ice on top. The water also compacts the snow. As fresh snow acts as a good insulating layer, now ice can also form more easily on the underside in contact with the ocean.”The idea is that the thicker the ice [at the end of winter], the longer it will survive when we go into the melt season,” Mr Ceccolini explains.Image source, Real IceImage caption, A pump is used to flood the sea-ice surface with seawater, which will then freezeSpeaking to me towards the end of their trip, they’ve already seen the ice thicken by a few tens of centimetres across their small study area. The ice will be monitored by locals in the months ahead.But it’s still far too early to say whether their approach can actually make a difference to the rapid decline in Arctic sea-ice.”The vast majority of polar scientists think this is never going to work out,” cautions Martin Siegert, an experienced glaciologist at the University of Exeter, who is not involved in the project.One issue is that the saltier ice may melt more quickly in the summer. And then there’s the huge logistical challenge of scaling the project up to a meaningful level – one estimate suggests that you could need about 10 million wind-powered pumps to thicken sea-ice across just a tenth of the Arctic. “It is quite insane in my opinion that this could be done at scale for the entire Arctic Ocean,” says Julienne Stroeve, a professor of polar observation and modelling at University College London.Some of the more experimental geoengineering suggestions include trying to make clouds more reflective by generating extra sea spray, and mimicking volcanic eruptions to reflect more of the Sun’s energy back into space.A number of scientists – including the UN’s climate and weather bodies – have warned that these approaches could pose grave risks, including disrupting global weather patterns. Many researchers want to see them banned altogether. “Geoengineering technologies come with enormous uncertainties and create novel risks for ecosystems and people,” explains Lili Fuhr, director of the Fossil Economy Program at the Center for International Environmental Law.”The Arctic is essential to sustaining our planetary systems: pumping sea water onto sea-ice on a large scale could change ocean chemistry and threatens the fragile web of life.”And there’s a more fundamental, widespread concern with these types of projects.”The real danger is it provides a distraction, and people with vested interests will use it as an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels,” Prof Siegert warns.”Frankly, it’s insane and needs to be stopped. The way to solve this crisis is to decarbonise: it’s our best and only way forward.”A simple guide to climate changeWhat is net zero, and how are the UK and other countries doing?The Arctic researchers are acutely aware of these concerns. They stress that they are simply testing the technology, and wouldn’t unleash it more widely until the risks are better known.”We’re not here promoting this as the solution to climate change in the Arctic,” Dr Fitzgerald stresses. “We’re saying that it could be [part of it], but we’ve got to go and find out a lot more before society can then decide whether it’s a sensible thing or not.”They agree that geoengineering is no silver bullet to tackling climate change, and that steep cuts to fossil fuels and carbon emissions are most important to avoid the worst consequences of warming.But they point out that even with rapid action, the world still faces a difficult future.The Arctic Ocean is likely to be effectively free of sea-ice by the end of summer at least once by 2050, and possibly even sooner. As the graph below shows, it’s already experienced steep declines since the 1980s.”We need other solutions,” argues PhD student Jacob Pantling, a researcher at the Centre for Climate Repair who braved the icy winds in Cambridge Bay. “We have to reduce emissions, but even if we do them as quickly as possible, the Arctic is still going to melt.”Map by Erwan RivaultRelated TopicsArcticClimateMore on this storyPolar bears face starvation threat as ice meltsPublished13 FebruaryMore snow and rain is falling in the ArcticPublished14 December 2022Hottest February marks ninth new monthly recordPublished7 MarchWhy is the world getting warmer?Published8 FebruaryTop StoriesAid reaches shore in Gaza after first sea deliveryPublished3 hours agoAll 35 bodies in Hull funeral inquiry identifiedPublished7 hours agoRussian arrests as ballot boxes targeted in Putin votePublished7 hours agoFeatures’Tory PM ousting plot’ and ‘Gran’s death row wait’Trying to stay alive in a town tormented by drugs, alcohol and suicideFive Champions League match-ups to look forward toAttributionSportWeekly quiz: Which exclusive Oscars club did Emma Stone join?Battle between West Bank farmers divides Israel and US Listen: Putin’s Russia: An election without democracy? 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