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
