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Lauding Republicans (reluctantly). US Election Hyperbole and Hypocrisy

30/07/2015

McCain is not a war hero. Heroes do not drop bombs on civilian targets from tens of thousands of feet...

Horny by name, not by nature. Breeding the Colorado Bighorn

27/07/2015

The health of Colorado's bighorn sheep population remains as precarious as the steep alpine terrain the animals inhabit...

Reduced Circumstances = Reduced Emissions? CO2 and the Financial Crisis

25/07/2015

The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession - not the reduced use of coal...

goby by Carole Baldwin and Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Institution

Meet the Deepwater Goby Fish that Science Missed

22/07/2015

By thoroughly investigating reef ecosystems that lie just below shallow coral reefs, describing new species, documenting depth ranges of new and known species, we are providing the baseline...

What Were the Skies Like Before Fossil Fuels?

21/07/2015

"Life in the ocean has a big effect on clouds," said co-author Dennis Hartmann, a UW professor of atmospheric sciences....

Carola Petersen, Hinrich Schulenburg, Kiel University

Highway Slime : Worms Hitchhike on (and in) Slugs

15/07/2015

Worms invaded the guts of slugs, survived and proliferated within the intestines, and were subsequently excreted alive with the slug feces....

Can Windfarms Hurt You… With Bass Sounds?

12/07/2015

an international team of experts dealt with the fundamentals of hearing in the lower limit range of the audible frequency range (i.e. infrasound), but also in the upper limit range (i.e. ultrasound)....

Nobel Laureates Call for Climate Protection

06/07/2015

Without climate protection, our ever-increasing demand for food, water, and energy will eventually overwhelm the Earth's ability to satisfy humanity's needs....

Flights of Fancy and an Unwanted Runway

04/07/2015

The UK has not built a full-length runway in the South East since World War 2. Should it?...

Do YOU cover up your cat’s Kill Count?

02/07/2015

Cat owners do not accept that cats are a threat to wildlife, and oppose management strategies...

Fire and Bristone. Delving the Earth’s Sulphur Core

17/06/2015

For millennia, tales have been told of the underworld being awash with fire and brimstone. Now at least, we can be sure of the brimstone. ...

Bursting the pink bubble of partisan fantasy

17/06/2015

You do not actually believe that it is possible to vote away oligarchic rule and militarist/police state imperium… do you?...

Balearic shearwater by Beneharo Rodríguez

Drop that Glowstick! Light Pollution Threatens Balearic Birds

15/06/2015

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Unto the Breach. Strategic Flooding and Warcraft

13/06/2015

Strategic flooding is a highly risky tactic. It can only be successful if there's a well-thought-out backup plan and a plan for fast repairs...

Secret Trade Courts: are the scales TTIPing?

09/06/2015

Tobacco companies could get litigious if a country passes laws to help people quit smoking. Agrochemicals companies could throw the book at governments that block chemicals they consider dangerous....

Environment, Phone-Churn, and a Landfilled Goldmine

08/06/2015

Where frequent upgrades are encouraged and recycling schemes not actively pursued, valuable materials integral to phone manufacture are lost, causing damage to the environment...

Entrenched imperial orders do not die pretty deaths

04/06/2015

The angst, humiliations, and sundry degradations of working people that are inherent to capitalism are unbearable for the multitudes...

Three Months Statutory? Songbirds and Eggsitting

16/05/2015

Songbirds balance longevity against the risk of their eggs being eaten by predators...

Image by Jakob Helbig University of Copenhagen.

Catching Rays to Save Sunlight

12/05/2015

Regardless of method, when you store energy there is a theoretical limit to the energy density.... And then there is reality. ...

The Peas Are Nice, Dear. Ageing Insects

01/05/2015

As insects grow old their behaviour becomes increasingly predictable...

In Denial? Flour Beetles in a Harsh World

30/04/2015

Flour beetles exhibit a highly tactile form of courtship in which the male mounts the female and stimulates her...

Then bury your head in it…. Nuclear Waste Disposal

17/04/2015

Deep borehole disposal has been developed primarily in the UK but is likely to see its first field trials in the USA next year. ...

How to Promote Backyard Bird Diversity

15/04/2015

Neighborhoods most attractive to birds were those in which many yards had fruit or berry-bearing trees and shrubs...

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Quakes or cancer : Which Fracking Death Would YOU Prefer?

10/04/2015

'there are a lot of potential ways that fracking may be distributing and spreading radon'...

Fallow and Flower, For Feeding the Bees

25/03/2015

Flower strips sown into farmers' fields not only attract bees but increase their numbers...

Tilting trees for better biofuel

15/03/2015

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clouds by MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

Turbulent times : The Physics of Clouds

14/03/2015

Being based in London, Trebuchet gets quite a lot of practise with clouds. Next up: The physics of black nose-crust/Tube bogies? In 1941, Russian physicist Andrey Kolmogorov developed a theory of...

Sane? That’s a Tough Goal in Insane Times

03/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcapuman activity (since the advent of the oxymoron known as industrial civilization) has been defined by the exploitation of human...