Satellites and sea ice Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish 22 July 2014 A team of scientists lead by the American Ian Eisenman has suggested that maybe the amount of sea ice in the Antarctic hasn’t been increasing as fast as people had thought. Read more
Art reveals secrets about Earth’s past atmosphere English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish 25 March 2014 Christos Zerefos and his team of Greek and German researchers have recently found that the colours of sunsets painted by artists as far back as 1500 can actually tell us how polluted the atmosphere was in the past! Read more
Fastest glacier ever! English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish 3 February 2014 The Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier has always been fast – even in the 1990s it was considered to be one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world – but American and German scientists have confirmed that it is now moving at almost four times its previous speed! Read more
Ancient forests kept Earth’s climate under control Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish 23 January 2014 In the last 24 million years, conditions on Earth meant that there could have been very low levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – which could have led to very cold conditions – but did not. Scientists have been asking why this was, and a team of researchers in the UK may have now found an answer. Read more
More droughts in Europe? Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish 9 January 2014 Italian scientist Giovanni Forzieri and his team of researchers have predicted more extreme weather in the next 80 years: they say that droughts in Europe could happen on a more regular basis and become more severe. Read more
Is reflecting sunlight a solution for climate change? English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish 5 December 2013 New research shows that if geoengineers try to reflect some of the sunlight from the Earth to slow climate change, they may actually cause bigger problems in terms of the Earth’s climate. Read more
Using cars to measure rainfall English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish 28 November 2013 A team of scientists in Germany took the idea of windscreen wipers getting rid of rain to come up with a new way to measure rainfall. Read more
How do pigeons find home? English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish 5 November 2013 Hans Wallraff, a German ornithologist (someone who studies birds), has suggested that pigeons use wind directions and smells in the air to find their way home. Read more
A breath of fresh (1.5 million year old!) air English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish 5 November 2013 Scientists drilling for ice in Antarctica have been able to find ice with bubbles up to 800,000 years old, but now they want to find out what Earth’s atmosphere was like before then. Swiss-based scientist Hubertus Fischer and other researchers want to find ice that is up to 1.5 million years old, so that they can study really old air to know what the Earth’s climate was like even further in the past. Read more
Animals, plants and changing climate English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish 8 October 2013 German researchers have predicted that over 80% of the world’s animals and plants living on ice-free land are at risk of big changes in the next 80 years. Read more
Tiny plankton could have a big impact on Earth’s climate English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish 13 September 2013 German scientist Ulf Riebesell and his team of 35 researchers have recently been investigating what will happen to plankton in the oceans when there is much more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there is today. Read more
Picturing the Northern Lights Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish 6 September 2013 Japanese scientist Ryuho Kataoka has measured how high up in the sky are the Northern Lights using two photo cameras placed 8 km apart in Alaska. Read more
Farming carbon Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish 31 July 2013 A team of German researchers have suggested a way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, using a process they call carbon farming. Read more
Spacecraft discovers space wind Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish 2 July 2013 Iannis Dandouras has found out that there is wind in the plasmasphere: a wind that, every second, carries about 1 kg of plasma from this ‘doughnut’ further out into space! More, it has a speed of over 5,000 kilometres per hour, much faster than the winds here on Earth. Read more
Three-minute tsunami alerts Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish 17 May 2013 German scientist Andreas Hoechner and his team have found a way to provide people with a quick and accurate warning of a tsunami using GPS. Read more
Climate change causing glaciers to melt Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish 22 January 2013 French scientist Antoine Rabatel and his team of researchers from around the world have been studying glaciers in the South American Andes for several years. Antoine found that many of the glaciers have been melting faster and faster since the 1970s, which he and his team believe is due to climate change. Read more
Pinpointing earthquake hotspots Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish 5 December 2012 Australia-based geoscientists Dietmar Müller and Thomas Landgrebe studied the places on the Earth’s surface where subduction earthquakes have occurred in the past century. They found that the strongest earthquakes have occurred where cracks on the seafloor (called fracture zones) overlap the subduction zones. Read more
Worse air quality in the future? Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish 1 August 2012 Andrea Pozzer, while researching in Italy, has found that air quality around the world may become much worse by the year 2050, unless governments take major action to reduce the quantities of pollutants emitted by industry, transportation or household use. Read more
Engineering the climate Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish 6 June 2012 A team of European researchers recently looked at what reducing sunlight reaching the Earth might do. They found that reducing the amount of sunlight would also reduce the amount of rain that falls in the north of Europe, America, and Asia by a large amount: 15% or about 100 millimetres of rain per year! Read more
Japan at risk of another earthquake Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish 14 February 2012 The March 2011 earthquake happened at a subduction zone 160km away from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Now, Japanese scientists (Dapeng Zhao, Ping Tong and Dinghui Yang) found that another type of fault, closer to the power plant, was woken up by the large earthquake and could put the plant at risk in the future. Read more
