Nature & Environment : Science World Report

Feb 06, 2012 03:19 PM EST

Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt

The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life--and it killed in stages--according to a newly published report. It shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events.

Feb 06, 2012 01:42 PM EST

Satellite Tracking Reveals Sea Turtle Feeding Hotspots

Satellite tracking of threatened loggerhead sea turtles has revealed two previously unknown feeding 'hotspots' in the Gulf of Mexico that are providing important habitat for at least three separate populations of the turtles, according to a study published recently in the journal Biological Conserva...

Feb 04, 2012 08:59 AM EST

SLU will lead new cooperation project in the Baltic Sea region

The Department of Forest Resource Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences has received EU funding of 3.3 million euro for the project "The Baltic Landscape in change - innovative approaches towards sustainable forested landscapes". The project will run until the end of June 201...

Feb 03, 2012 10:52 AM EST

How Sea Water Could Corrode Nuclear Fuel

Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, says Professor Alexandra Navrotsky of the University of California, Davis.

Feb 01, 2012 02:25 PM EST

New Zeolite Material May Solve Diesel Shortage

World fuel consumption is shifting more and more to diesel at the expense of gasoline. A recently published article in Nature Chemistry by a research team at Stockholm University and the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain presents a new porous material that evinces unique properties for con...

Feb 01, 2012 11:40 AM EST

Tropical Cyclones to Cause Greater Damage

Tropical cyclones will cause $109 billion in damages by 2100, according to Yale and MIT researchers in a paper published in Nature Climate Change.

Feb 01, 2012 11:18 AM EST

Multidisciplinary Marine Network EuroMarine General Assembly in Bremen

More than 100 international scientists of the EU multidisciplinary marine network EuroMarine met on 17 January for three days in Bremen. The aim of the conference was to integrate the three networks of excellence EUR-OCEANS, MarBEF and Marine Genomics Europe in order to optimize the marine science i...

Feb 01, 2012 10:07 AM EST

Natural Halogenated Molecules found in West Pacific, Ozone Killers

Coastal waters of the tropical Western Pacific produce natural halogenated organic molecules involving chlorine, bromine and iodine atoms that may damage the stratospheric ozone layer. This is the conclusion drawn from the initial findings of a field measurement campaign conducted in the South China...

Jan 31, 2012 11:55 PM EST

The Arctic is already suffering the effects of a dangerous climate change

These researchers assert that the Arctic is already suffering some of the effects that, according to The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), correspond with a "dangerous climate change".

Jan 31, 2012 11:46 PM EST

What really happened prior to 'Snowball Earth'?

In a study published in the journal Geology, scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science suggest that the large changes in the carbon isotopic composition of carbonates which occurred prior to the major climatic event more than 500 million years ago...

Jan 31, 2012 11:33 PM EST

Warming in the Tasman Sea a Global Warming Hot Spot

Oceanographers have identified a series of ocean hotspots around the world generated by strengthening wind systems that have driven oceanic currents, including the East Australian Current, polewards beyond their known boundaries.

Jan 31, 2012 10:38 PM EST

New Survey on Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources in India

A major new survey of the likely effects of climate change on India's water resources published today identifies huge challenges to maintaining adequate supplies in the next few decades, but argues that these can be overcome with an integrated, multi-sectorial approach that takes into account water ...