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Scalable membrane could filter greenhouse gases

Added: 11 Sep 2019

A new membrane filtration could be used to separate greenhouse gases from waste emissions on an ind…

$5.8M for renewable photocatalytic converter

Added: 10 Sep 2019

Houston-based plasmonics company Syzygy has raised $5.8 million to develop its eco-friendly photoca…

Porous rocks support prebiotic evolution theory

Added: 7 Aug 2019

The water-air interface found at pores in volcanic rocks could have been the location of the chemic…

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…

Open University partners NASA for lunar instrument

Added: 15 Jul 2019

Open University scientists are working with NASA on a device that will detect water patterns for fu…

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…

Essex glassblowers announce £1.2M expansion

Added: 31 May 2019

Scientific equipment manufacturer Radleys has invested more than £1.2 million in a new glassblowing…

Supercomputer models cloud microphysics

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An international group of researchers have for the first time accurately calculated the effects of …

Small particles lead to big storms

qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 19 Feb 2018

Even the tiniest of particles from human emissions can fuel powerful storms and influence weather a…

Exploding stars have a link to climate change

qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 22 Jan 2018

Cosmic rays from supernovae can influence Earth's cloud cover and thereby climate according to new …

Breathable atmosphere down to fungi

qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 12 Jan 2018

A team from Leeds University have shown that fungi were essential in the creation of an oxygen-rich…

Giant volcanic eruption drove historic global warming event

qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 8 Dec 2017

New research by a group of international scientists suggests that an extreme global warming event 5…

Volcanic eruption linked to El Niño

qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 5 Dec 2017

Researchers at Rutgers University have discovered that large volcanic eruptions can prompt El Niño …

Evolution held back by lack of oxygen

qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 21 Feb 2017

Evolution on earth was delayed by two billion years because of low level atmospheric oxygen, accord…

Upgraded spectrometer able to analyse outer space

qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 18 May 2016

A spectrometer has had its capabilities extended to identify large, complex molecular structures fo…