All Earth & Environmental Sciences


Acid rain plays role in Great Dying

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2013

Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass ex…

Ardnamurchan magma mystery solved

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Oct 2013

A volcano on the Scottish peninsula thought to have three successive magma chambers only has one si…

Sea-level rise predictions could be flawed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Aug 2013

Bristol researchers say the satellite record for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets needs to im…

Ring rain influences Saturn’s atmosphere

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 May 2013

Saturn’s atmosphere is home to more charged water particle “rain” than previously thought suggests …

World’s saltiest pond suggests water on Mars

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Mar 2013

A team of geologists led by Brown University have discovered the secrets of a pond in Antarctica wi…

Sponge soaks up coal emissions

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2013

Materials Science

A new energy-efficient ‘solar sponge’ developed by researchers at Monash Universit…

Glacier melting accelerated by dark microbial life

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Feb 2013

Scientists previously viewed glaciers as “lifeless lumps of ice” but an Aberystwyth University-led …

Grand Canyon as old as the dinosaurs

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jan 2013

One of the Seven Wonders of the World is older and with a more interesting history than was previou…

NASA happens upon forecast breakthrough

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2013

A researcher who set out to develop a formula to protect Apollo sites on the moon from rocket exhau…

Nearby ‘super-Earth’ may support life

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Dec 2012

An international team of astronomers have discovered an alien planet, believed to have a similar cl…

Oceanic turbulence affects marine food web

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Dec 2012

Numerical simulations have shown for the first time that the movement of seawater can directly affe…

See-through soil developed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Nov 2012

Researchers from the James Hutton Institute and the University of Abertay Dundee have developed a t…

Weighing the ocean

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2012

Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre and Newcastle University have proposed a method th…

Sediment collapse explains scale of tsunami

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2012

Cambridge University seismologists have developed a model that may explain why some tsunamis are la…

Green Antarctica

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Sep 2012

Antarctica was once home to a warm rainforest dominated by palms and trees, and a mountain forest w…

London delivers clean games

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Aug 2012

London 2012 produced one of Team GB’s most successful medal hauls, but it might also be one of the …

Fracking safe provided regulations strengthened

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Aug 2012

Fracking is safe as long as best practice is followed and regulations are tightened a review from t…

Potential food crisis linked to climate change

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Aug 2012

The UK could face a potential food crisis with dramatically reduced food choices in the future, unl…

Green rust’s crucial role in ancient atmosphere

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Aug 2012

Green rust may have played a crucial role in the creation of Earth’s early atmosphere suggests new …

Neanderthal extinction not caused by climate

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Aug 2012

The demise of the Neanderthal cannot be blamed on climate change say researchers in London.!--more-…