Interviews about Earth Science

If the Navier Stokes equation is solved, it would lead to advances in a huge number of fields, including travel,...

The Royal Society in London comes alive with a week-long exhibition showcasing the very latest in cutting edge...

We examine the environmental cost of the aviation industry and the potential for mitigation strategies...

Millions of people live close to volcanoes, but what danger are they in, and are there any long term health effects...

Falling ash and scorching pyroclastic flows are the most dangerous elements of an eruption. How do they work?

Eruptions are dramatic events that tear apart mountains. But what is actually going on inside an erupting volcano?

What are volcanoes more common in certain places, what triggers and eruption, and can volcanic activity be predicted...?

Your body clock uses colour to determine the time of day, which may even explain how colour vision evolved in the...

Palaeo-anthropologists in South Africa are inviting tourists to watch them at work excavating a new species of human...

What a natural nuclear reactor can tell us about harnessing nuclear energy more safely...

The earliest evidence of our genus, Homo, has been unearthed in Ethiopia...

Despite international efforts, our ozone layer may still be at risk from chemicals that are currently unregulated...

Specially protected messenger RNA molecules allow hibernating squirrels to warm up quickly.

At the moment, plastics are produced industrially using oil as a raw material. But, in future, it might, quite...

We follow a batch of rubbish on its recycling journey...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a huge floating mass of plastic aggregated by ocean currents and caused by us.

Pet dogs living with humans have infected African lions with distemper virus, while people are putting pumas off their...

Scientists have been using X-rays to examine magnetism in meteorites dating from the dawn of the solar system...

There could be trouble ahead if we burn all our available fossil fuels, according to new research.

Cold viruses grow better in the cold, new research confirms...

June 2014 was the hottest since records began. Why, and how is this impacting on conditions in Antarctica?

Argo is a system of 3600 floating mini-laboratories observing the temperatures, salinity, and currents in the oceans....

Plants thrive on UV, but why? And how can their responses to these high-energy wavelengths of light be used to boost...

There have been a number of mass-extinctions previously on Earth. Is another one on the cards? And if so, could...