http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/story.aspx?id=1037 Highlights and links to more environmental science stories, events and achievements. en-gb Tue, 15 May 2012 10:21:41 +0100 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=326 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=326 On 17 May a team of researchers will be setting off on the Changing Oceans expedition, spending a month looking at the impact of warming and acidifying oceans on marine ecosystems. Tue, 15 May 2012 10:13:29 +0100 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=325 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=325 Scientists have flown through the turbulent storms being experienced in the UK at the moment to try and understand what causes such stormy weather. Thu, 10 May 2012 12:51:08 +0100 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=324 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=324 The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that Envisat, its long-serving environmental observation satellite, has finally given up the ghost. Envisat had only recently passed its tenth year in orbit when all contact was lost with it on April 8. Wed, 09 May 2012 12:40:32 +0100 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=323 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=323 More evidence of the harm fossil-fuel emissions do to people's health comes from a paper showing they cause some 13,000 premature deaths every year. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:21:41 +0100 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=322 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=322 Over the last few year's there's been an increasing volume of fascinating research on the possible impact of nanoparticles on people and the environment. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:17:33 +0100 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=319 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=319 Ever wondered what to do with the leftovers from your last knitting project? If you're as clever as Sarah Moller and Felicity Perry from NERC's {ke2, at the University of Leeds, you could use it to make {ke1. Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:06:43 +0100 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=321 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=321 The exceptionally warm and dry UK springs we've enjoyed over the last couple of years may have been terrible for water stocks, but to look on the bright side they've been {ke4. Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:46:48 +0100 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=320 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=320 The latest hydrological summary from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) is out, and shows the drought facing much of south-eastern England isn't going away any time soon. Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:32:28 +0100 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=318 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=318 Fisheries managers need to do more to protect small fish like sardines, herring and anchovies from overexploitation. In many areas catches need to be halved. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:18:12 +0100 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=317 http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/blogs/post.aspx?id=1037&pid=317 Scientists have produced the first continuous, near-global record of temperature at the end of the last ice age, which shows that {ke1. Their findings are published in Nature. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:36:27 +0100