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Tetrapods

Ancient tracks identify pioneering reptiles

Newly-discovered 318-million year old animal tracks in Canada have confirmed the long-held theory that reptiles were the first vertebrates to thrive in Earth's arid inland environments.

The tracks provide evidence for a key point in the history of life.

30 July 2010

Ocean circulation in the North Atlantic

Ocean circulation is a key factor in deglaciation

Scientists link circulation change to dramatic temperature increases.

29 July 2010

Two sticklebacks

Antioxidants keep fish fitter

Carotenoids defend fish against the stress of reproduction.

28 July 2010

Brent goose

Brent geese unlikely to breed two years running

Geese breeding one year are less likely to breed the year after.

27 July 2010

Geoengineering

Experiment Earth?

23 July 2010

Geoengineering, which aims to slow down or reverse climate change, is a hot topic. But what do people really think of it? Peter Hurrell describes NERC's recent efforts to find out.

Rannoch Moor

Hunting the last ice sheet

The seabed around Scotland is giving up the secrets of the last ice age.

16 July 2010

The Colne Estuary, Essex

Gases to gases

Isoprene produced at sea has profound effects on our climate and on ocean ecosystems.

5 July 2010

arctic ice

Diving in the freezing cold waters of the Arctic

Heiko Moossen from the University of Glasgow describes what it's like.

28 July 2010

Spotted bowerbird

Bowerbirds, a yellow sub and measuring CO2

Hear bowerbirds mimicking people and how a TV tower measures CO2.

20 July 2010

Damaged leaf

Conker tree science

Tracking the invasive moth that's threatening our horse chestnuts.

Updated: 23 July 2010

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Planet Earth - Summer 2010

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Summer 2010

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