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16 January 2014
Crowd funding programmes have raised money for Hollywood films, but now it could even be used to monitor carbon dioxide...
09 January 2014
This week the Michigan town of Hell froze over - but why are temperatures plummeting across America?
07 January 2014
Will use of renewable energy take off in 2014?
05 December 2013
How much energy is generating using renewables?
21 November 2013
Chemistry data from plankton shells could boost historical climate records
15 November 2013
A map tracking deforestation and tree replanting has been produce by Google, NASA and the University of Maryland...
11 November 2013
There's a lot of traffic on it's way to the little red planet right now. Why?
07 November 2013
Australian archaeologists have found part of a fossil from an ancient platypus that was a metre long.
10 October 2013
fifty-five million years ago, the planet suddenly warmed. But why? New evidence suggests a huge release of carbon...
08 August 2013
New research suggests that global warming trends are being disguised by historical CFC emissions...
25 July 2013
Close study of the genome of the oil palm tree could result in significantly increased palm oil yield.
11 July 2013
Capturing carbon dioxide and storing it could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but how safe is it?
11 July 2013
Changes deep in the Earth's core are changing the Earth's rotation and affecting how long days are.
04 July 2013
Fire-fighters were killed in Arizona this week tackling a wildfire that got out of control. But how do blazes like this...
06 June 2013
Manganese leaching from lava stones around Mt Etna could explain a high incidence of Parkinson's disease in the...
30 May 2013
Ice age plant samples have been recovered from polar glaciers and brought back to life after 400 years in the deep...
23 May 2013
A mile-wide tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma this week. Here's the Quickfire Science on these destructive...
16 May 2013
Water that hasn't seen the light of day, or had contact with the Earth's atmosphere, for 2.5 billion years...
18 April 2013
The Kepler satellite has announced this week the best possible candidates for habitable planets around distant stars
10 April 2013
Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide could lead to more clear-air turbulence, leading to bumpier and more expensive...
14 March 2013
Physicists from the Russian Academy of Sciences claim to have made the first detection of water dimers in realistic...
07 March 2013
11,300-year data set shows global temperature will soon be setting records...
25 February 2013
This month has seen the MARS2013 simulation underway in a desert in the Northern Sahara...
07 February 2013
A team led by Paul Renne at the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California have shed new light on the asteroid impact...