All Earth & Environmental Sciences


Ocean disaster will take a million years to recover

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 30 May 2017

The fear of a dramatic drop in world ocean oxygen content has been heightened as new work suggests …

Ocean conservation requires new Hippocratic Oath

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 23 May 2017

An international group of marine scientists have called for a Hippocratic Oath to protect the ocean…

New ‘supermolecule’ created to decontaminate water supplies

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 26 Apr 2017

Researchers at the University of Surrey have produced a method of detecting and removing contaminan…

Predictive qualities of social media discovered

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 21 Mar 2017

Social media has been found to be effective at predicting hurricanes, storms and floods before they…

Clam shells detail millennium of change

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 14 Dec 2016

A US scientist has created, for the first time, a 1,000 year record of ocean climate change – using…

Volcanic activity better understood after Bolivian expedition

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 23 Nov 2016

A magmatic lake 15km below a dormant volcano in Bolivia may explain how and why volcanoes erupt. !-…

Research further explores coral-algae relationship

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 14 Nov 2016

An extensive study by researchers has revealed new insights on the relationship between Carribean c…

Carbon dioxide spike linked to Antarctic ice melt

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 19 Oct 2016

Researchers from Columbia University have expressed long term concerns about the mass of the Antarc…

Satellite repositioned for better weather tracking

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 4 Oct 2016

A new satellite has been manoeuvred to better observe weather and climate over the Indian Ocean.

Habitat preservation crucial for turtle and tortoise survival

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 3 Oct 2016

The survival of turtles and tortoises is more dependent on habitat degradation than rising global t…

Is this the death of formaldehyde?

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 27 Sep 2016

Formaldehyde is a common lab chemical. Widely known for its use in embalming, it is also used as a …

Ocean warming definitive cause for Antarctic glacier melt

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 1 Aug 2016

Ocean warming, not a rise in air temperature, is the main reason for the retreat of glaciers on the…

Helium gas field found in Africa

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 7 Jul 2016

Scientists have located a large helium gas field and hope that this find can replenish quickly-decr…

Climate change agreement achieved unilateral compliance

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 30 Jun 2016

Taken together, the carbon emissions of all 36 countries that committed to the Kyoto Protocol, sign…

Scientists propose age of Earth’s magnetic field

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 16 Jun 2016

The Earth’s magnetic field has existed for at least 3.4 billion years, in part due to the low heat …

The Golden Age of Green Chemistry

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 2 Jun 2016

As more and more laboratories and companies embrace the principles of green chemistry, chemists and…

Keeping track of a chemical world

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 30 May 2016

We are ever more reliant on chemicals in both the products we use and the medicines we take, but do…

Space mission to measure biomass step closer to lift-off

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 26 May 2016

A mission to measure the Earth’s biomass is closer to launch after a contract to build its necessar…

Majority of public unaware of ocean acidification

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 24 May 2016

A recent survey suggests that just one in five people in Britain are aware of ocean acidification.

Theory on ancient Earth’s atmosphere challenged

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 23 May 2016

An international team of scientists are challenging the theory that ancient Earth’s atmosphere was …