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Maths award adds up to nearly £2.8 mill for exchange research

April 10, 2026
Two of Sweden’s leading institutions have donated the equivalent of £2.78 million to fund 16 mathematicians for work ranging from improved ice melt forecasting to the physics of the world’s...

Disappearing glaciers ‘now second largest contributor to sea level rise’

March 2, 2025
Glacier loss in central Europe was nearly 40% during this century, suggests a study by Belgium’s Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Sea-savvy tech provides longest ever study of destructive water currents

December 16, 2024
Durham University scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in marine geoscience, using seabed seismographics to study the world’s strongest turbidity currents as they occur in one of the longest submarine...

Stand by for the big freeze

October 26, 2024
Crisp white snow, glaciers all around, icicles melting in the summer sun – it’s July in Britain 50 years from now, writes Professor Brian J Ford.

Leading marine survey finds home at enlarged Plankton Lab

October 6, 2024
Charities supporter the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Marine Biological Association (MBA) have joined forces to enable the new Plankton Taxonomy Laboratory in Plymouth to host one of the world’s...

Extra-terrestrial invader downgraded to a truck

March 10, 2024
Ground vibrations picked up at a remote seismic station a decade ago and attributed to a meteor may have a more mundane origin, suggests new research.

Satellite offers a flood warning breakthrough

January 14, 2024
Satellite video offers an enhanced means to monitor river flow and provide earlier and more comprehensive flood warnings, claims a new study.

Breaking down a breakup

November 6, 2023
The seas around Florida provided the opportunity to analyse the movement of the Earth’s crust during the events that saw the breakup of Pangaea, explains Sabrina Reichert.

UEA coastal erosion project will test new tech’s predictive powers

August 13, 2023
One of the counties most at risk from coastal erosion will provide the location for a technologically advanced pilot study to better understand and predict the risks involved.

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