All Earth & Environmental Sciences


Ozone smog will get worse with climate change

Added: 25 Jul 2019

Rising temperatures due to climate change will increase concentrations of ozone in the air to dange…

Algal biofuels face diverse pathogens

Added: 24 Jul 2019

DNA analysis of a predatory bacterium has revealed a much higher level of genetic diversity than pr…

Symphony in C

Added: 22 Jul 2019

Composed in four movements, Symphony in C explores carbon’s multifaceted characteristics and its ro…

Joshua tree faces extinction

Added: 17 Jul 2019

Climate change could be responsible for the near extinction of Joshua trees by the end of this cent…

Water droplet

Added: 15 Jul 2019

This amazing image – Crack Patterns I, by Thomas Séon – shows a water droplet falling onto a silico…

Pea gin reduces CO2 emissions

Added: 12 Jul 2019

Alcohol fermented from the starch of peas instead of wheat could offer a greener form of gin produc…

Satellites confirm largest macroalgae bloom

Added: 11 Jul 2019

Satellite observations have confirmed the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world, which has mostl…

National Trust ends fossil fuel investments

Added: 4 Jul 2019

The National Trust has revealed that it will cease investment in fossil fuel companies in the inter…

The greenest lab equipment?

Added: 3 Jul 2019

I love my job. The main reason is that I help labs save vast amounts of money whilst fighting clima…

Bitcoin causing city-sized CO2 emissions

Added: 17 Jun 2019

The digital currency bitcoin is responsible for CO2 emissions comparable to that of Las Vegas.

BioCity invests in carbon recycling startup

hjcmtbbcwq.d hjcmtbbcwq.d | Added: 25 Apr 2019

Science incubator BioCity has invested an undisclosed amount in Deep Branch Biotechnology, a Nottin…

The bigger the better

hjcmtbbcwq.d hjcmtbbcwq.d | Added: 4 Mar 2019

A UK-wide prohibition on the use of plastic microbeads in some cosmetic and personal care products …

Down on the farm

hjcmtbbcwq.d hjcmtbbcwq.d | Added: 28 Feb 2019

The complex balance of species which live in and around farmland are vulnerable to climate change –…

A very complex disturbance

hjcmtbbcwq.d hjcmtbbcwq.d | Added: 14 Jan 2019

Given what we know about how impactful humans have been on the environment, the idea that we actual…

£24m from NERC

hjcmtbbcwq.d hjcmtbbcwq.d | Added: 11 Jan 2019

Around £24 million in funding has been allocated under the fourth round of National Environment Res…

European wheat unprepared for climate change

hjcmtbbcwq.d hjcmtbbcwq.d | Added: 10 Jan 2019

Current breeding programmes and cultivar selection practices of European wheat crops are unprepared…

Melting ice sheets pump out methane

hjcmtbbcwq.d hjcmtbbcwq.d | Added: 9 Jan 2019

The emission of tons of methane from the Greenland Ice Sheet is evidence of a widespread subglacial…

UN biodiversity targets give false sense of achievement

hjcmtbbcwq.d hjcmtbbcwq.d | Added: 19 Dec 2018

UN biodiversity targets are structured to give a false sense of conservation achievement, according…

Understanding battleground earth

hjcmtbbcwq.d hjcmtbbcwq.d | Added: 8 Nov 2018

Falk Hildebrand takes through the first global study of the soil microbiome. This incredible intern…

The fat of the land

hjcmtbbcwq.d hjcmtbbcwq.d | Added: 19 Oct 2018

Evidence for environmental chemicals as disruptors of metabolism is mounting ­– now a new study sug…