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
