Nature & Environment : Science World Report

May 14, 2012 01:41 PM EDT

Cities Must Adapt to Our Changing Climate, Say Leaders

Bruntwood, one of the UK's leading property companies, and The University of Manchester host a symposium to discuss the first phase of their EcoCities project; a long-term partnership looking at how cities should adapt to the changing climate.

May 14, 2012 08:24 AM EDT

Time, Place and How Wood is Used Are Factors in Carbon Emissions from Deforestation

A new study from the University of California, Davis, provides a deeper understanding of the complex global impacts of deforestation on greenhouse gas emissions.

May 14, 2012 08:17 AM EDT

Research Maps the City's Heat

Steel - the traditional industry for which the UK city of Sheffield is so well known - could help provide a green alternative for heating the city's homes and businesses, alongside other renewable energy sources.

May 14, 2012 07:41 AM EDT

Farewell to the Sun

The crew of the French-Italian Concordia research base in the Antarctic saw their last rays of Sun for over four months last weekend. Near the South Pole, the outpost will now continue its research and run self-sufficiently in darkness until September.

May 12, 2012 03:36 PM EDT

Caltech Researchers Gain Greater Insight into Earthquake Cycles

For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault-both during an earthquake and at times of "rest"-in order to know more about how a particular region may behave in the future. Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Cal...

May 12, 2012 08:31 AM EDT

Scientists 'Read' the Ash from the Icelandic Volcano 2 years after Its Eruption

In May 2010, the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano EyjafjallajÃ¶kull reached the Iberian Peninsula and brought airports to a halt all over Europe. At the time, scientists followed its paths using satellites, laser detectors, sun photometers and other instruments. Two years later they have now p...

May 11, 2012 01:52 PM EDT

First Forecast Calls for Mild Amazon fire Season in 2012

Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year, according to the first forecast from a new fire severity model developed by university and NASA researchers.

May 11, 2012 11:26 AM EDT

UF Study Finds Logging of Tropical Forests Needn't Devastate Environment

Harvesting tropical forests for timber may not be the arch-enemy of conservation that it was once assumed to be, according to a new study led by a University of Florida researcher.

May 11, 2012 09:59 AM EDT

Fires in Western Australia

When this image was captured on May 2, 2012, dozens of fires-most likely management fires started by government authorities-were burning in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

May 11, 2012 09:47 AM EDT

Drought Hits Spain's Wheat Crop

The first image shows the impact of the drought on plants throughout the country. The map was made with Normalized Vegetation Difference Index (NDVI) data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Terra satellite. It compares plant growth between April 6 and Ap...

May 11, 2012 09:04 AM EDT

U.S. Temperatures for April Third Warmest on Record

Several warm periods across the contiguous U.S. during April brought the national average temperature to 55Â°F, 3.6Â°F above average, marking the third warmest April on record. These temperatures, when added with the first quarter and previous 11 months, calculate to the warmest year-to-date and...

May 10, 2012 04:07 PM EDT

Nanotube 'Sponge' Has Potential in Oil Spill Cleanup

A carbon nanotube sponge that can soak up oil in water with unparalleled efficiency has been developed with help from computational simulations performed at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory.