Nearing the limits of life on Earth
It took Jackie Goordial over 1000 Petri dishes before she was ready to accept what she was seeing. Or not seeing. Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at...
View ArticleA new global team tracks temperature change through time
High on mountains across Alaska, Canada, Europe and Russia near the upper tree line, even the hardiest of conifers are at the edge of survival. Their annual rings tell a story of extreme cold that...
View ArticleNew 'Little Ice Age' coincides with fall of Eastern Roman Empire and growth...
Researchers from the international Past Global Changes (PAGES) project write in the journal Nature Geoscience that they have identified an unprecedented, long-lasting cooling in the northern hemisphere...
View ArticleLessons about damming in Australia
The push for development in northern Australia is gathering momentum, with the government recently releasing a draft of its Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility to help finance large projects.
View ArticleLasers reveal 'lost' Roman roads
Since 1998 the Environment Agency has used lasers to scan and map the English landscape from above to help with work such as flood modelling and tracking changing coastlines. But these LIDAR (Light...
View ArticleIndian Kashmir begins bird census at Himalayan wetlands
A meticulous counting of waterbirds began Tuesday in the wetlands and marshes of India's portion of the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which attracts species migrating from as far as northern Europe and...
View ArticleSauropod swimmers or walkers?
An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the University of Bristol, has shed new light on some unusual dinosaur...
View ArticleMeteor suspected as mystery flash lights up Scottish sky
Scientists say a meteor was the cause of a bright flash of light reported by people across Scotland and northern England.
View ArticleSwaths of Britain, Germany treated to northern lights
Parts of Britain and Germany have been treated to a display of the northern lights, a colorful phenomenon that is usually only seen further north.
View ArticleA new picture of the last ice age
At the peak of the last ice age, a vast ice sheet covered northern Europe, spanning from the British Isles, across Scandinavia and into Russia in the east and the Barents Sea in the north. A new...
View Article'Wild-ID' tracking technology highlights vulnerability of wildebeest migration
Recent efforts to combat habitat fragmentation and poaching have temporarily stabilized wildebeest populations in northern Tanzania, but this iconic migrating species of the African savannah remains...
View ArticleComet 252P/LINEAR soars into predawn view this week
Astronomers who scan the skies for returning comets are often disappointed. Sometimes these icy visitors from the fringes of our planetary system end up being much fainter than predicted.
View ArticleLast light—sunset at the South Pole
In the Northern Hemisphere, the spring equinox promises warmer days and green plants. But for researchers at NOAA's South Pole Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, Sunday March 20 marks the start of the...
View ArticlePalaeosol loess shed light on early Pleistocene climate in western arid...
Famous for its deserts, arid central Asia (ACA) is one of the driest regions in the mid-latitudes and one of the main potential dust sources for the northern hemisphere. The mobilization,...
View ArticleNorth Atlantic played pivotal role in last great climate tipping point
North Atlantic played pivotal role in last great climate tipping point, research shows.
View ArticleLarge variations in precipitation over the past millennium
According to a new study in Nature, the Northern Hemisphere has experienced considerably larger variations in precipitation during the past twelve centuries than in the twentieth century. Researchers...
View ArticleThe colour-changing comet
Rosetta's comet has been seen changing colour and brightness in front of the ESA orbiter's eyes, as the Sun's heat strips away the older surface to reveal fresher material.
View ArticleDid volcano eruptions tip Europe into Dark Ages?
Back-to-back volcanic eruptions in the mid-6th century darkened Europe's skies for more than a year and may have ushered in the Dark Ages, according to finding to be presented Friday at a science...
View ArticleAccounting for volcanoes using tools of economics
When Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it spewed dust and sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere with a force more powerful than any eruption since. As the aerosols and particulates circulated around the...
View ArticleUnmarried births are becoming the norm in Western Europe, share falling in...
The Golden Age of Marriage in Europe had clear norms: In the 1950s and 1960s, people were expected to marry before having a child. But in many countries of today, more than half of the births are out...
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