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Habitat preservation crucial for turtle and tortoise survival

October 3, 2016
News
The survival of turtles and tortoises is more dependent on habitat degradation than rising global temperatures, according to University of Bristol researchers.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Zoology
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Is this the death of formaldehyde?

September 27, 2016
Feature
Formaldehyde is a common lab chemical. Widely known for its use in embalming, it is also used as a disinfectant in laboratories – however, recent EU legislation suggests we need...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, In Depth
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Ocean warming definitive cause for Antarctic glacier melt

August 1, 2016
News
Ocean warming, not a rise in air temperature, is the main reason for the retreat of glaciers on the Western Antarctic Peninsula, propose scientists.
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Helium gas field found in Africa

July 7, 2016
News
Scientists have located a large helium gas field and hope that this find can replenish quickly-decreasing amounts of the element around the world.
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Geology
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Climate change agreement achieved unilateral compliance

June 30, 2016
News
Taken together, the carbon emissions of all 36 countries that committed to the Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997, complied with their targets, according to a new study.
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Scientists propose age of Earth’s magnetic field

June 16, 2016
News
The Earth’s magnetic field has existed for at least 3.4 billion years, in part due to the low heat conduction of iron in its core, claim researchers.
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geophysics
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The Golden Age of Green Chemistry

June 2, 2016
Feature
As more and more laboratories and companies embrace the principles of green chemistry, chemists and engineers can make an enormous difference to humanity's quality of life.
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, In Depth
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Keeping track of a chemical world

May 30, 2016
Feature
We are ever more reliant on chemicals in both the products we use and the medicines we take, but do we know what happens when they end up in the...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, In Depth
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Space mission to measure biomass step closer to lift-off

May 26, 2016
News
A mission to measure the Earth’s biomass is closer to launch after a contract to build its necessary technology was agreed.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental Chemistry
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Majority of public unaware of ocean acidification

May 24, 2016
News
A recent survey suggests that just one in five people in Britain are aware of ocean acidification.
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Oceanography
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