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Environment - Earth Sciences - 07.02.2025
New Research Highlights the Governance and Ecological Challenges of Mangroves in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Research by Meenakshi Shankar Poti (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université libre de Bruxelles) delves into the environmental policies and governance structures in small islands, with further emphasis on the mangrove ecosystems of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 05.02.2025

Earth Sciences - Environment - 03.02.2025
Cracks in Greenland Ice Sheet growing more rapidly
The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. Dr Tom Chudley, in our Department of Geography, led a new large-scale study of crevasses - wedge-shaped fractures or cracks - on the world's second largest body of ice.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 27.01.2025
’Last Ice Area’ in the Arctic could disappear much sooner than previously thought
Research findings highlight potential impacts on biodiversity, challenge current conservation policies The Arctic's "Last Ice Area" (LIA) - a vital habitat for ice-dependent species - might disappear within a decade after the central Arctic Ocean becomes ice-free in summer, which is expected to occur sometime around mid-century, a new study by McGill researchers using a high-resolution model has found.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 27.01.2025
In Search for Million-Year-Old Ice, Belgian Scientists Return from Antarctica with First Clues
Belgian scientists from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) have returned from Antarctica with samples and data that could help them determine where to find million-year old ice, which in turn can provide information about Earth-s climate in the past.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 27.01.2025
Q&A: How rate of CO2 rise can affect a global ocean current
As we burn fossil fuels, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is gradually rising, and with it, the planet's average temperature.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 22.01.2025
Action urged over climate change’s impact on hydropower and wildlife
Scotland must do more to help hydropower facilities maximise their output and prevent negative impacts on wildlife in the face of the challenges posed by climate change, according to a new report.
Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 22.01.2025

New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 22.01.2025
For MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Faith Brooks, the sky’s the limit
Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 21.01.2025

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used radar data taken by ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite before and after the 2015 eruption of the Calbuco volcano in Chile to create this interferogram showing land deformation.
Chemistry - Earth Sciences - 21.01.2025

Using the Earth itself as a chemical reactor could reduce the need for fossil-fuel-powered chemical plants.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 20.01.2025
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Impact of cleaner air means that human-emitted methane needs to fall more sharply to hit globally agreed targets Reducing sulphur in the air may inadvertently increase natural emissions of methane from wetlands such as peatlands and swamps, a new study has found. The findings published today in the journal Science Advances suggests that the decline of global sulphur emissions as the result of clean air policies, coupled with the warming and fertilization effects of carbon dioxide emissions lifts a lid on wetland methane production resulting in increased emissions.
Earth Sciences - Event - 17.01.2025

Environment - Earth Sciences - 17.01.2025

Architecture - Earth Sciences - 14.01.2025

The CAMMM Atlas is a digital platform used to analyze disparities in accessibility and promote better distribution of services in cities.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 13.01.2025
Do clouds play a role in Arctic ice melt?
Earth's air conditioner is on the blink, and a University of Miami researcher, using a "toolbox" of state-of-the-art scientific instruments, has been delving deeper into the reasons why.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 05.01.2025
Ocean sand is in demand, but mining it comes at a cost
Paleontology - Earth Sciences - 02.01.2025

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of different dinosaur footprints.
Earth Sciences - Astronomy / Space - 31.12.2024

Paleontology - Earth Sciences - 18.12.2024

New research has provided fresh insights into the dramatic events surrounding the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The extinction of the Dinosaur was a tumultuous time that included some of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth's history, as well as the impact of a 10-15 km wide asteroid.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 18.12.2024

Deep geothermal energy is climate-friendly and base-load capable - but how can this heat be tapped safely? researchers are working on minimizing the earthquake risk and developing completely new systems, for example with closed CO2 cycles.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 18.12.2024
Hurricane Hunters test new technology
Braving winds well over 150 miles an hour in some instances, a group of scientists flew into the heart of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season's most destructive storms.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 18.12.2024
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season sets records
It's now officially over, leaving in its wake a trail of devastation, death, and massive economic losses.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 18.12.2024
Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution
A small fleet of autonomous surface vessels forms a large sonar array for finding submerged objects.
Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 16.12.2024
Aurora mapping across North America
Haystack Observatory researchers and citizen scientists team up to map the aurora. As seen across North America at sometimes surprisingly low latitudes, brilliant auroral displays provide evidence of solar activity in the night sky. More is going on than the familiar visible light shows during these events, though: When aurora appear, the Earth's ionosphere is experiencing an increase in ionization and total electron content (TEC) due to energetic electrons and ions precipitating into the ionosphere.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 13.12.2024

Environment - Earth Sciences - 13.12.2024

Antarctica is one of the most vulnerable ecosystems on the planet. Climate change, invasive species and the impact of human activities are threats to a delicate balance of biodiversity and natural systems on this continent.
Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 12.12.2024
Anton Ermakov’s fascination with planets and moons
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Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 12.12.2024

The north polar region of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io was captured by NASA's Juno during the spacecraft's 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. Data from recent flybys is helping scientists understand Io's interior. Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Gerald Eichstädt" A new study points to why, and how, Io became the most volcanic body in the solar system.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 11.12.2024

Watersheds on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard will be among the areas most affected by underground saltwater intrusion by the year 2100 due to sea level rise and changes in groundwater supplies, according to a NASA-DOD study.
Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 09.12.2024
NASA’s PACE, US-European SWOT Satellites Offer Combined Look at Ocean
One Earth satellite can see plankton that photosynthesize. The other measures water surface height. Together, their data reveals how sea life and the ocean are intertwined.
Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 06.12.2024
Double win for Europe: Sentinel-1C and Vega-C take to the skies
Environment - Earth Sciences - 06.12.2024
Record-low Antarctic sea ice can be explained and forecast months out by patterns in winds
Amid all the changes in Earth's climate, sea ice in the stormy Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica was, for a long time, an odd exception.
Earth Sciences - Astronomy / Space - 05.12.2024
NASA Flights Map Critical Minerals From Skies Above Western US
Various minerals are revealed in vibrant detail in this sample mineral map of Cuprite, Nevada, following processing of imaging spectrometer data.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 04.12.2024
Massive asteroid impacts did not change Earth’s climate in the long term
Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth's climate, according to a new study by UCL researchers. The rocks, both several miles wide, hit Earth about 25,000 years apart, leaving the 60-mile (100km) Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia, and the 25-55 mile (40-85km) crater in the Chesapeake Bay, in the United States - the fourth and fifth largest known asteroid craters on Earth.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 04.12.2024
Liquid on Mars was not necessarily all water
New study proposes that some of the minerals seen on Mars today may have formed in liquid CO2 instead of water. Dry river channels and lake beds on Mars point to the long-ago presence of a liquid on the planet's surface, and the minerals observed from orbit and from landers seem to many to prove that the liquid was ordinary water.
Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 03.12.2024
Is There Life Beyond Earth?
Environment - Earth Sciences - 27.11.2024

Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 27.11.2024
With NASA’s Europa Clipper Launch, Researchers Look Ahead to Scientific Discoveries
Scientists and engineers on campus and Lab wished NASA's Europa Clipper mission a bon voyage on October 14 as it launched from Earth toward Jupiter's frozen moon, Europa.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 26.11.2024
Scientists warn of ’invisible threat’ of microplastics as global treaty nears completion
As the UN meets this week to finalise the Global Plastics Treaty, researchers warn that the agreement could fail to address one of the biggest threats to marine environments-microplastics.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 22.11.2024
The emergency map: how the UV accurately delineated the magnitude of the DANA
On 29 October 2024, an episode of torrential rains shook the Valencian Community, leaving behind a trail of devastation and numerous flooded municipalities.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 22.11.2024
’Bomb cyclone’ adds to growing extreme weather trend
The satellite imagery was frightening: a powerful low-pressure system swirling approximately 300 miles off the coast of Washington.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 21.11.2024

Innovation - Earth Sciences - 21.11.2024

Environment - Earth Sciences - 21.11.2024
Fewer than 7% of global hotspots for whale-ship collisions have protection measures in place
According to the fossil record, cetaceans - whales, dolphins and their relatives - evolved from four-legged land mammals that returned to the oceans beginning some 50 million years ago.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 19.11.2024
Research team makes National Geographic’s ’Picture of the Year’ cover
Environment - Earth Sciences - 12.11.2024
Earth’s ice at risk of irreversible loss
The world's snow and ice regions are at risk of irreversible loss and damage. The warning was made in a new report from an international team of more than 50 leading cryosphere scientists, including Professor Chris Stokes in our Department of Geography.
Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 08.11.2024

The NISAR mission will help researchers get a better understanding of how Earth's surface changes over time, including in the lead-up to volcanic eruptions like the one pictured, at Mount Redoubt in southern Alaska in April 2009.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 07.11.2024
Planting trees in the Arctic could make global warming worse, not better, say scientists
Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees' ability to store large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. But, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience , an international group of scientists, including from the University of Cambridge, argue that tree planting at high latitudes will accelerate, rather than decelerate, global warming.
Earth Sciences - Astronomy / Space - 31.10.2024

A SWOT data visualization shows water on the northern side of Greenland's Dickson Fjord at higher levels than on the southern side on Sept.
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Event - Feb 10
Événement AMIDEX, AMPIRIC Les Actualités de la recherche : conférence de Alfredo BAUTISTA
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Innovation - Feb 10
Focus on artificial intelligence: pioneering projects from the Department of Creative Technologies
Focus on artificial intelligence: pioneering projects from the Department of Creative Technologies
Life Sciences - Feb 10
Less, but more: a new evolutionary scenario marked by massive gene loss and expansion
Less, but more: a new evolutionary scenario marked by massive gene loss and expansion

Linguistics - Feb 10
How Natural Language Processing contributes to society: an interview with Professor Lonneke van der Plas
How Natural Language Processing contributes to society: an interview with Professor Lonneke van der Plas

Economics - Feb 10
Swiss parents prefer savings accounts to investment funds when saving for their children
Swiss parents prefer savings accounts to investment funds when saving for their children

Astronomy - Feb 7
Durham's strengths in space and quantum research focus of German Ambassador's visit
Durham's strengths in space and quantum research focus of German Ambassador's visit
Environment - Feb 7
New Research Highlights the Governance and Ecological Challenges of Mangroves in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
New Research Highlights the Governance and Ecological Challenges of Mangroves in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands