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Glacial footprint

June 5, 2017
This image shows a glacial landform, now submerged under the sea, categorised as a spiralling iceberg ploughmark.

Stirring up understanding of the Earth’s mantle

June 1, 2017
Scientists from the University of Leicester have a completely new understanding of the movement of the Earth’s mantle.

Ocean disaster will take a million years to recover

May 30, 2017
The fear of a dramatic drop in world ocean oxygen content has been heightened as new work suggests it could take a million years for oceans to recover.

Ocean conservation requires new Hippocratic Oath

May 23, 2017
An international group of marine scientists have called for a Hippocratic Oath to protect the oceans, similar to that which doctors take before practising medicine. The scientists say this oath...

New ‘supermolecule’ created to decontaminate water supplies

April 26, 2017
Researchers at the University of Surrey have produced a method of detecting and removing contaminants from water.

Predictive qualities of social media discovered

March 21, 2017
Social media has been found to be effective at predicting hurricanes, storms and floods before they occur.

Hunt for mosquitoes

March 20, 2017
An image of a tern looking for food, in this case mosquitoes.

Trappist travel poster

March 1, 2017
A travel poster by NASA imagining a trip to the new exoplanets announced in late February, Trappist 1b-h.

Clam shells detail millennium of change

December 14, 2016
A US scientist has created, for the first time, a 1,000 year record of ocean climate change – using clam shells.

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