All Earth & Environmental Sciences
Ancient Mercury’s volcanic past
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2014
Volcanoes exploded on Mercury for a large proportion of the planet’s history according to detailed …
Saharan dust cloud highlights air quality problems
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2014
Air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk according to the World He…
Supervolcanic eruptions solved?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2014
Supervolcanic eruptions are caused by a change in magma pressure and magma buoyancy suggests two ne…
Soap bubbles predict circling winds
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Feb 2014
Meteorologists have been using an unusual tool to predict the wind intensity and strength of hurric…
Nanoparticles and the environment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Dec 2013
Metallic nanoparticles have many possible uses – including clean fuel technology and high density s…
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…
