All Earth & Environmental Sciences
Environmentally friendly silicon recycling
Added: 10 Sep 2020
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) have develope…
New fossil ape discovered in India
Added: 9 Sep 2020
A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the ear…
Fungus leather: new front-runner for sustainable clothing material
Added: 9 Sep 2020
In a new review paper by the University of Vienna, Imperial College London, and RMIT University in …
Coronavirus 'trap and zap' technology
Added: 24 Aug 2020
Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technolog…
Converting self-sterilising water filtration technologies for COVID-19 protection
Added: 24 Aug 2020
With the worldwide focus on coronavirus prevention and transmission, a new type of air-filter that …
New international carbon dating standard
Added: 13 Aug 2020
Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientis…
Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite reveals new penguin colonies
Added: 5 Aug 2020
A new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are nearly 20% more emperor penguin co…
The truth about turtles
Sarah Lawton | Added: 20 Jul 2020
A research team from Florida State University (FSU) has discovered a world of microscopic life on t…
Extinct Oligocene dolphins were apex predators
Added: 9 Jul 2020
A report in the journal Current Biology, offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete…
COVID-19 Earth observation dashboard
Added: 25 Jun 2020
In response to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and J…
Survival of coronavirus in different cities, on different surfaces
Added: 11 Jun 2020
One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the d…
Magma movements suggest long-term seismic risk for Northern Europe
Added: 11 Jun 2020
Scientists have discovered new evidence for active volcanism next door to some of the most densely …
Researchers uncover a world of life on the back of a turtle
Added: 4 Jun 2020
Much to the delight of all Hindu’s and fans of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, researchers have…
Oil-hungry smart sponge could restore our oceans
Added: 2 Jun 2020
A Northwestern University-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soak…
Plastic-eating superworms host biodegrading gut bacteria
Added: 29 May 2020
Resembling giant mealworms, superworms (Zophobas atratus) are beetle larvae that are often sold in …
Illegal wildlife trading threatens all creatures great and small
Added: 29 May 2020
Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of global public he…
Will our climate bounce back as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown?
Added: 20 May 2020
Stanford research study envisions energy and environment landscape after COVID-19, pinpointing redu…
Ice-free Arctic seas by 2050
Added: 24 Apr 2020
Arctic sea-ice simulations suggest ice-free summers before 2050 despite rapidly reduced carbon emis…
Wellcome leads genome-mapping project
Added: 8 Nov 2019
The Wellcome Sanger Institute is among 10 organisations that are part of a project to map genomes o…
11,000 scientists declare climate emergency
Added: 6 Nov 2019
More than 11,000 scientist signatories support new a paper warning of “untold human suffering” that…
