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Reading Rock to Understand How Climate Change Unfolds
May 18, 2013 Geologists reads rock, looking for the natural rules that govern the Earth’s climate in the absence of human activity. New work is challenging many assumptions about the ways drastic climate ... > full story -
New Era of Fisheries Policy Needed to Secure Nutrition for Millions
May 17, 2013 A new study argues that for fisheries policies to be effective they must take in to account not just fish stock conservation and environmental issues, but also research data on the patterns and ... > full story -
First Ever Underwater University Lectures
May 17, 2013 Students at the University of Essex have taken their lectures to a whole new level -- 18 metres under the sea in remote Indonesia to be ... > full story -
Topography of Eastern Seaboard Muddles Ancient Sea Level Changes
May 16, 2013 The distortion of the ancient shoreline and flooding surface of the US Atlantic Coastal Plain are the direct result of fluctuations in topography in the region and could have implications on ... > full story -
Team Wins Cubesat Berth to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements
May 16, 2013 A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most important frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget and the extent to which ... > full story -
World's Biggest Ice Sheets Likely More Stable Than Previously Believed
May 16, 2013 A new study suggests that the previous connections scientists made between ancient shoreline height and ice volumes are erroneous and that perhaps our ice sheets were more stable in the past than we ... > full story -
World's Melting Glaciers Making Large Contribution to Sea Rise
May 16, 2013 While 99 percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world's glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets ... > full story -
Actor Johnny Depp Immortalized in Name of Fossilized Creature With 'Scissor Hand' Claws
May 16, 2013 A scientist has discovered an ancient extinct creature with 'scissor hand-like' claws in fossil records and has named it in honor of his favourite movie star. The 505-million-year-old fossil called ... > full story -
H1N1 Discovered in Marine Mammals
May 15, 2013 Scientists detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic ... > full story -
'Fish Thermometer' Reveals Long-Standing, Global Impact of Climate Change
May 15, 2013 Climate change has been impacting global fisheries for the past four decades by driving species towards cooler, deeper waters, according to ... > full story
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