NATURE
Southwest US faces megadrought
Oct 01, 2014
Written by
Tom Hart
Scientists at Cornell University have predicted that the US Southwest faces a 20–50 per cent chance of experiencing a decades-long ‘megadrought’ this century
A heated debate
Oct 01, 2014
Written by
Daniel Allen
Iceland has long been famous for its spectacular volcanism, but recent developments in the country’s geothermal power industry have generated a new mid-Atlantic rift
Snow thins on Arctic sea ice
Oct 01, 2014
Written by
Tom Hart
Historic data from NASA aircraft, ice buoys and former Soviet ice floe bases have been used to establish that snow has thinned on Arctic sea ice since the 1950s
Future earthquake risk in Chile
Oct 01, 2014
Written by
Tom Hart
An earthquake that took place in Iquique, Chile this April was not the ‘big one’ according to US geophysicists. Although the earthquake hit 8.2 on the Richter scale, research indicates there is still a gap in the fault unruptured since…
Urban heat boosts tree pests
Sep 01, 2014
Written by
Olivia Edward
Urban heat islands are causing populations of a tree pest to increase, killing red maple trees in southeastern USA, according to a new study carried out by researchers from North Carolina State University
Norwegian reindeer thriving
Sep 01, 2014
Written by
Olivia Edward
Reindeer on the Norwegian high-Arctic archipelago of Svalbard are thriving as temperatures rise, according to a new long-term study
Athena’s yellow-eyed hunter
Sep 01, 2014
Written by
Keith Wilson
What they may lack in size, little owls more than make up in charisma. And despite being well camouflaged, they make very good subjects for photography – assuming you can find one
Ocean changes leading to kelp overgrazing
Sep 01, 2014
Written by
Tom Hart
Changes to the distributions of tropical fish species due to ocean warming is leading to overgrazing of kelp forests and seagrass meadows, a new study has found
Warming hiatus caused by natural climate change variation
Sep 01, 2014
Written by
Olivia Edward
The so-called ‘hiatus’ in the rate of global warming between 1998 and 2013 is consistent with natural variations in temperature, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters
Getting brown and dirty
Sep 01, 2014
Written by
Nikolia Apostolou
Lignite, or brown coal, has powered the Greek economy for more than 60 years but also led to health and environmental problems. Nikolia Apostolou assesses the impact of plans to privatise the country’s mining industry
New Antarctic lead pollution record
Sep 01, 2014
Written by
Olivia Edward
An international team of scientists has created the most accurate and precise reconstruction to date of lead pollution over Antarctica
Appalachian bend explained
Sep 01, 2014
Written by
Olivia Edward
A team of US scientists has explained why the Appalachian mountain chain has a curious bend in Pennsylvania and New York State
Melting snow prompts earlier nesting
Aug 01, 2014
Written by
Olivia Edward
A new study has revealed that earlier snowmelts are causing migratory birds that breed in Arctic Alaska to initiate nesting earlier in the spring
Icebergs scouring Antarctic seabed communities
Aug 01, 2014
Written by
Olivia Edward
The loss of sea ice around the Antarctic coastline is leading to a huge drop in biodiversity on boulders on the shallow seabed as they are scoured by icebergs, according to a new study
In the fly zone
Aug 01, 2014
Written by
Nick Haslam
The Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve in northern Spain’s Basque Country is a hotspot for migrating birds on the East Atlantic Flyway. A hi-tech new birdwatching centre is pioneering survey and conservation work as well as offering visitors an unparalleled twitching experience
Where the land ends
Aug 01, 2014
Written by
Keith Wilson
A combination of dramatic cliffs, wild seas and fascinating flora and fauna make mainland England’s most westerly point an excellent destination for photographers of all persuasions
North Sea fauna changing
Aug 01, 2014
Written by
Olivia Edward
Biological communities in the North Sea have undergone significant changes since the turn of the millennium, according to long-term studies carried out by a team of German scientists
Quaternary ice age explained
Aug 01, 2014
Written by
Olivia Edward
A new study published in Scientific Reports has put forward a novel theory to explain the origin of the Quaternary ice age, which covered large parts of the Northern Hemisphere 2.6 million years ago
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