Research to secure a safe water supply
World Water Day on Sunday, 22 March aims to raise public awareness of the increasing scarcity of clean drinking water on our planet. In a densely populated world, droughts and floods are causing more damage than ever before. view more (2009-03-20)
Rapid Sea Level Rise in the Arctic Ocean May Alter Views of Human Migration
Scientists have found new evidence that the Bering Strait near Alaska flooded into the Arctic Ocean about 11,000 years ago, about 1,000 years earlier than widely believed, closing off the land bridge thought to be the major route for human migration from Asia to the Americas. view more (2006-10-12)
Ozone, nitrogen change the way rising CO2 affects Earth's water
Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. view more (2009-07-10)
More accurate FEMA flood maps could help avoid significant damages and losses
Significant loss of life, destroyed property and businesses, and repairs to infrastructure could be avoided by replacing Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps with ones that contain high-accuracy and high-resolution land surface elevation data, says a new report from the National Research Council. view more (2009-01-26)
SMART-1 diagnoses wrinkles and excess weight on the Moon
Owing to SMART-1's high resolution and favourable illumination conditions during the satellite's scientific operations, data from Europe's lunar orbiter is helping put together a story linking geological and volcanic activity on the Moon. view more (2007-08-23)
New climate research reveals growing risk of water shortages and flooding in California
If the world continues to burn greenhouse gases, California may have an increased risk of winter floods and summer water shortages, even within the same year. This scenario may be more severe in future El Niño years. view more (2006-02-08)
Alaska glacier speed-up tied to internal plumbing issues, says CU-Boulder study
A University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates meltwater periodically overwhelms the interior drainpipes of Alaska's Kennicott Glacier and causes it to lurch forward, similar to processes that may help explain the acceleration of glaciers observed recently on the Greenland ice sheet that are contributing to global sea rise. view more (2008-01-16)
In the Eye of the Storm: Why some people stayed behind
Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster in U.S. history, claiming the lives of more than 1,800 victims and causing well over $100 billion in damage along the Gulf Coast. view more (2009-07-06)
Amazon Basin sediment accumulation influenced by La Ni'±a
Enormous quantities of sediment are deposited in the flood-plains traversed by the Amazon and its tributaries in times of flooding. Scientists have hitherto considered the sedimentation rate to be generally constant with time. Research conducted jointly by the IRD, the Universities of Washington1 and California2 and the Bolivian National... view more... (2003-11-21)
National award for combating the effects of rain on radio signals
In wet and snowy weather, microwave and radio signals can become severely weakened. This is bad news for anyone who wants to be able to guarantee a reliable service whatever the weather, such as mobile phone companies and radio stations. By measuring how badly the test microwave signals fade, however, scientists in the Radiocommunications Unit at... view more... (2000-03-13)
Why oceans behave like water in a bath
SATELLITE measurements of sea levels have uncovered a bizarre effect. The sea seems to be rising faster near the coast than in mid-ocean. Simon Holgate and Philip Woodworth of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, in Bidston, UK, found this discrepancy using the Topex satellite, launched in 1992. The satellite measures sea level by bouncing... view more... (2004-04-21)
Prominent researchers advocate creation of national climate service
It's time for the United States to have a national climate service - an interagency partnership led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and charged with understanding climate dynamics, forecasts and impacts - say six members of the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group. Their views appear online this week in the early... view more... (2006-11-29)
Foresight for physics technologies is healthy - The Physics Congress 2002
The key role of physics in delivering solutions to problems such as climate change and global warming was highlighted by Professor David King, Head of the Office of Science and Technology and Government Chief Scientific Adviser, in a talk to scientific innovators at the Institute of Physics Annual Congress in Brighton today. Citing ARM, the... view more... (2002-04-08)
ARES fills the vacuum
Ares Research Technology, a new start-up company which will design and assemble scientific equipment that works at ultra-high vacuum, was launched today at CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory. The company will supply advanced instruments for use on X-ray sources in laboratories and at synchrotron light sources around the world. view more (2005-04-05)
Ares Fill The Vacuum
Ares Research Technology, a new start-up company which will design and assemble scientific equipment that works at ultra-high vacuum, was launched today at CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory. The company will supply advanced instruments for use on X-ray sources in laboratories and at synchrotron light sources around the world. view more (2005-04-01)
Observations from space: NASA environmental data and lung disease
NASA gathers a tremendous amount of data on the environment that can be helpful in understanding lung disease. view more (2008-05-19)
The rain in Spain falls mainly "Š at the coast
If you're thinking about heading to Spain for some late autumn sunshine, think again. Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have discovered that the number of wet days in Spain is on the increase. Dr Clare Goodess, of UEA's Climatic Research Unit, studied forty years worth of rainfall data for Spain (1958-1997) and found that although... view more... (2002-11-11)
Southampton scientists unravel 8,200-year-old climate riddle
Palaeoceanographers from the Southampton Oceanography Centre have shed new light on the world's climate behaviour over 8,200 years ago. In an article published this week in Nature, they demonstrate that a sudden drop in temperature lasting 200 years cannot be used as a template for the modern day threat of rapid climate change. view more (2005-04-21)
Australia's climate: Drought and flooding in annual rings of tropical trees
Annual rings are acclaimed in representing natural climate archives. For the temperate latitudes it is known that the growth of these annual rings depend mainly on temperature and precipitation. view more (2009-06-12)
£180K for Plymouth to lead national coastal research networks
Researchers at the Universities of Plymouth, Strathclyde and Edinburgh have been awarded £180,000 from the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council to co-ordinate coastal engineering research across the UK into areas such as coastal defences, coastal flooding and erosion and the effects of global warming on the coastal zone. view more (2002-05-08)
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