Interviews about Earth Science

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...

250 million years ago, life on Earth looked very different, both in the sea and on land. What wiped these strange...

Giant marsupials used to roam Australia, but when humans arrived 60 000 years ago, they suddenly became extinct. Did...

Using a laser to recreate comet and asteroid impacts on the early Earth, scientists have discovered the chemical...

Lunar Mission One launches a crowdfunding drive on Wednesday, which offers donors a chance to have a digital memory box...

Why has Ebola been so hard to contain? Some say too little was done too late...

Diseases like malaria are not being treated due to the resource strain caused by Ebola...

UK University energy bills are more than £400 million per year. Cambridge University is running 'Switch off Week...

Lightning looks set to strike twice as often in future thanks to global warming, a new study predicts...

Scrubbing away C02 emissions to cut carbon emissions, combat climate change and slash energy costs.

HIV-1 DNA could be a biomarker for disease progression.