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Saharan dust cloud highlights air quality problems

April 4, 2014
News
Air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk according to the World Health Organization. Figures released before the recent Saharan dust invasion and subsequent haze hanging over...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Supervolcanic eruptions solved?

February 11, 2014
News
Supervolcanic eruptions are caused by a change in magma pressure and magma buoyancy suggests two new research papers. Supervolcanoes have a large magma chamber compared to conventional volcanoes, and are...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Volcanology
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Soap bubbles predict circling winds

February 5, 2014
News
Meteorologists have been using an unusual tool to predict the wind intensity and strength of hurricanes and typhoons – soap bubbles. Researchers from the Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine used...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Nanoparticles and the environment

December 30, 2013
News
Metallic nanoparticles have many possible uses – including clean fuel technology and high density storage – but their potential effects on their environment remain unknown.An international team of researchers have...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Acid rain plays role in Great Dying

November 29, 2013
News
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass extinction event nearly 252 million years ago.The cause of the massive extinction at...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Paleobiology
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Ardnamurchan magma mystery solved

October 16, 2013
News
A volcano on the Scottish peninsula thought to have three successive magma chambers only has one single chamber say researchers.The 58 million year old Ardnamurchan volcano is an iconic site...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Volcanology
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Sea-level rise predictions could be flawed

August 7, 2013
News
Bristol researchers say the satellite record for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets needs to improve if we are to examine ice loss correctly.It is currently too short to tell...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Oceanography
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Ring rain influences Saturn’s atmosphere

May 8, 2013
News
Saturn’s atmosphere is home to more charged water particle “rain” than previously thought suggests a study led by the University of Leicester.Their findings reveal that this rain influences the composition...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physics
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Turning cellulose into starch for new food source

May 1, 2013
News
A potential food source can be created from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops suggests a team at Virginia Tech who have succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch.This...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany, Food & Beverage
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Turning winemakers’ trash into treasure

April 15, 2013
News
Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) have realised leftover pulp (called pomace) from crushed wine grapes can be turned into useful substances.Wineries typically pay for the pulp to be taken...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Beverage
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