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New threat to ozone layer
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 17 Sep 2014
The Antarctic ozone hole is beginning to show signs of recovery, but a new threat is lurking sugges…
Winter weather set to get more erratic
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 12 Sep 2014
Extreme variations in pressure over the North Atlantic are responsible for our increasingly erratic…
Ancient shellfish provide clues to El Niño history
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 22 Aug 2014
New insight into the El Niño Southern Oscillation has been provided by 25-foot piles of ancient she…
Svalbard reindeer numbers on the rise
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 23 Jul 2014
In an unexpected twist, climate change is having a positive effect on the Norwegian reindeers of Sv…
Cloud formation slowed by biodiesel emission
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 14 Jul 2014
Global cloud formation and rainfall could be more dramatically and unexpectedly affected by the inc…
Global warming favours light-coloured insects
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 7 Jul 2014
A warming European climate has led to lighter coloured butterflies and dragonflies out-competing th…
£10m prize to solve greatest scientific problem
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 20 May 2014
A £10 million prize has been launched by Nesta and the Technology Strategy Board to solve the great…
Rain in Balkans cause flood and landslides
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 19 May 2014
Three months-worth of rain have fallen in three days in the Balkans, causing widespread floods and …
Saharan dust cloud highlights air quality problems
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 4 Apr 2014
Air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk according to the World He…
Soap bubbles predict circling winds
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 5 Feb 2014
Meteorologists have been using an unusual tool to predict the wind intensity and strength of hurric…
Nanoparticles and the environment
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 30 Dec 2013
Metallic nanoparticles have many possible uses – including clean fuel technology and high density s…
Acid rain plays role in Great Dying
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 29 Nov 2013
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass ex…
Ring rain influences Saturn’s atmosphere
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 8 May 2013
Saturn’s atmosphere is home to more charged water particle “rain” than previously thought suggests …
Sponge soaks up coal emissions
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 13 Mar 2013
Materials Science
A new energy-efficient ‘solar sponge’ developed by researchers at Monash Universit…
NASA happens upon forecast breakthrough
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 9 Jan 2013
A researcher who set out to develop a formula to protect Apollo sites on the moon from rocket exhau…
Nearby ‘super-Earth’ may support life
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 17 Dec 2012
An international team of astronomers have discovered an alien planet, believed to have a similar cl…
Oceanic turbulence affects marine food web
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 10 Dec 2012
Numerical simulations have shown for the first time that the movement of seawater can directly affe…
Green Antarctica
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 10 Sep 2012
Antarctica was once home to a warm rainforest dominated by palms and trees, and a mountain forest w…
London delivers clean games
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 16 Aug 2012
London 2012 produced one of Team GB’s most successful medal hauls, but it might also be one of the …
Potential food crisis linked to climate change
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 14 Aug 2012
The UK could face a potential food crisis with dramatically reduced food choices in the future, unl…
