Skip to main content
PEO header
Main content
Bush cricket

Fossil cricket reveals Jurassic love song

The love song of a long-extinct bush cricket is brought back to life.

7 February 2012

Gannet

Scientists predict where seabirds forage

The findings will help safeguard seabird hotspots.

6 February 2012

Storm brewing

Climate-change effects on malaria risk

Weather-disease model indicates changes to infection patterns.

3 February 2012

Cross section of a leaf

Dry conditions spurred advanced photosynthesis

Saving water drove evolution of new way of harvesting sunlight.

2 February 2012

< Prev   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 171   Next >

MRI scan of a Laetoli footprint

Best foot forward

How techniques developed to study ancient footprints are finding unexpected uses in modern life.

3 February 2012

Dave Green

The tale of dimethyl sulphoxide

Unravelling the role of an enigmatic marine chemical.

27 January 2012

Bombus terrestris

A failed invasion

Native species don't always lose out to alien invaders - a story of bumblebees.

20 January 2012

Working in the deep field, Lake Ellsworth

Life in Lake Ellsworth?

Preparing for one of the most ambitious Antarctic projects ever undertaken.

13 January 2012

< Prev   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 61   Next >

River Wandle

Revitalising urban rivers, hot conservation topics

How science is helping to bring polluted urban rivers back to life.

31 January 2012

Huge colony of yeti crabs

The Hoff Crab, North Sea fisheries, flood prediction

New species from the Southern Ocean's hydrothermal vents.

17 January 2012

Orangutan

Parkour and orang-utans, risks from solar storms

How the Parkour craze is linked to orang-utan conservation.

3 January 2012

Arctic ice

Our best 2011 audio diaries

On-the-spot reports from the Arctic, Sweden, Canada, Monterey Bay, and Antarctica.

20 December 2011

< Prev   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 28   Next >

Meteor shower

The Planet Earth Blog

Highlights and links to more environmental science stories, events and achievements.

Updated: 6 February 2012

Cryosat

Team heads to the Arctic to test satellite's accuracy

The researchers need to test how well its radar can see through snow.

Updated: 20 April 2011

Alan Jamieson

Hadeep - the final mission

Join Alan Jamieson on his latest research cruise to the deep-ocean trenches of the Pacific.

Updated: 18 March 2011

Alan Jamieson

Japan earthquake - a first-hand account

Scientist describes what happened when the earthquake struck.

Updated: 11 March 2011

< Prev   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8    Next >