Search results for: environment
Climate change could lead to more wars
8-4-2013 |
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A rise in global temperatures could have more than just an environmental effect on the world we live in.
Arctic methane a 'ticking time bomb'
7-26-2013 | 20
The release of large quantities of methane gas could have dire environmental and economic consequences.
Environmental satellites are rapidly failing
11-10-2012 | 12
The failure of older instruments and the lack of replacements could lead to future 'climate blindness'.
Space station used for distillery experiments
4-11-2012 | 8
Experts have been researching how a weightless environment could affect whisky maturation.
Sparrows change their tune in cities
4-4-2012 | 2
Sparrows have been found to change their song so that they can be heard in loud environments.
Health concerns raised over two-headed fish
2-25-2012 | 11
Authorities have been investigating environmental factors that could have created a trout with two heads.
Space junk poses clean-up challenge
8-13-2011 | 18
The amount of debris in orbit is posing an ever greater risk to spacecraft and the environment.
Plastic to be made from chicken feathers
4-3-2011 | 5
Researchers have devised a way to produce environmentally friendly plastic from chicken feathers.
Scientists grow monster dragonflies
11-4-2010 | 17
Scientists have raised super-size dragonflies in a controlled high-oxygen environment.
Fastest case of evolution recorded
7-4-2010 | 4
Tibetans living at altitudes of 13,000 feet have evolved to cope with their environment in only a few thousand years.
Could there be life on Io ?
6-13-2010 | 14
Scientists are considering the possibility that despite its extreme environment Io may be a habitat for life.
'Humans too stupid to stop climate change'
3-31-2010 | 368
Maverick environmentalist James Lovelock has claimed that we are not clever enough to handle global warming.
Research disputes Maya collapse belief
12-21-2009 | 1
New research on the Maya civilization which is believed to have collapsed due to its overuse of natural resources and sl...
Evidence of liquid water in comets
8-2-2009 | 4
During the first million years of their formation comets would have contained large amounts of liquid water it has been ...
Tough microbes could survive on Mars
7-21-2009 | 5
Scientists have found a microbe called Methanosarcina barkeri that lives in water sediment where oxygen is scarce, breat...
The 2012 apocalypse and how to stop it
4-28-2009 | 67
NASA researchers earlier this year released a report detailing the devastating potential of massive solar storms due in ...
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