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The United States space agency NASA has recorded a number of videos over the years, and now it is planning to reveal what it has actually captured. According to reports, the agency is currently developing content to offer NASA TV UHD. It will be the first non-commercial UHD TV channel.

The space agency has partnered with Harmonic, American technology company known for video delivery infrastructure, to develop 4K video content. If everything goes as per the agency’s plan, the new channel will be launched on November 1, 2015.

US astronaut Scott Kelly is on a special year-long mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began in March this year. It has been about six months of the astronaut aboard the space station and now, he is missing fresh air.

On Monday, the 51-year-old NASA astronaut said he misses fresh air, but is adapting well. In 2012, Kelly was selected for the mission the longest ever attempted at the ISS. According to the United States space agency, the year-long mission will help in understanding how human body responds to longtime in space. The agency will use the mission’s results in its future human mission to Mars.

According to top climate and weather body of Britain, global warming as a result of human activities is all set to lead to exceptionally high average temperatures in 2015 and 2016. It says natural weather phenomena like El Nino would add to it.

According to Rowan Sutton of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science that played a role in a Met Office report that was released recently, "It looks very likely that globally 2014, 2015 and 2016 will all be amongst the very warmest years ever recorded. We are seeing the effects of energy steadily accumulating in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere, caused by greenhouse gas emissions".

It was quite surprising when the Sierra Nevada mountains were found to have no ice at all in April this year. According to a new report published in Nature Climate Change, this year’s snowpack level was the lowest in the past few centuries.

It was for nearly three-quarters of a century that the average depth of snow measured at Phillips Station, approximately 90 miles east of Sacramento, was found to be 66.5 inches. The snowpack is generally at its peak at the beginning of April.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) recently revealed that it has added Tesla Motors Inc’s Model S P85D and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG i3 to its police car fleet. Both the vehicles will very soon be tested, LAPD said.

It has been said that the two luxurious cars have been loaned to the police department, and were unveiled as part of the city’s new plan. Los Angeles hopes that it will have nearly 300 new electric and hybrid vehicles in the fleet soon.

Mayor Eric Garcetti, while speaking about the plan, said that the Los Angeles police, fire, and four other departments will lease 160 electric vehicles.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and General Services Department will also lease 128 hybrid vehicles. The new additions will replace the old vehicles, he said.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) has planned to accelerate its bargaining efforts with Fiat Chrysler Automobile NV to form a template for new labor contract. The UAW disclosed its decision on Sunday.

The decision of choosing Fiat Chrysler’s FCA US unit as the target company for shaping the new contract was disclosed by the union on Sunday. The decision has kick-started the intense negotiation period which is expected to focus on a two-tier wage system that has financially benefitted auto makers but ranked workers.

The current contract of UAW with Fiat Chrysler, General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. expires on Monday. The labor talks between the union and Detroit's auto makers routinely extend beyond that deadline.