Skip to the content

IOP A community website from IOP Publishing

NEWS TO YOUR INBOX

Sign up for our website and get news each week in our FREE email newswire as well as FREE access to all our premium content. You can also receive a 25% discount on publication of your paper in ERL.

Corporate partners

For maximum exposure, become a Corporate partner. Contact our sales team.

Buyer’s Guide

Latest News

News and analysis on fundamental and applied environmental science

News RSS feed

Solar-cell efficiency boosted by folds and wrinkles

New organic photovoltaic mimics leaves

Top scientists urge governments to solve environmental 'dilemmas'

Demand for water and energy, natural disasters and measuring carbon dioxide must be prioritised, leading institutions say (from the Guardian)

Sting jets are common in North Atlantic windstorms

Up to a third of the 100 strongest North Atlantic winter storms in recent years could have contained sting jets

Time is not a great healer for biodiversity

Effects of loss of species worsen over time, study shows

Biodiversity loss rivals warming

Species loss could have same size effect on biomass production as rising temperatures

Geophysicists fingerprint sea-level rise

Technique links ice-sheet melting to ocean observations

Greenland's glaciers prove hard to pin down

Outlet glacier behaviour depends on termination type, location and other factors

Experiments underestimate plant response to warming

Response to higher temperatures in the wild may be eight times greater

Why is the black crowberry heading north?

Migration in southern part of range cannot be explained solely by rising temperatures

Seed cases rival coal as energy source

Seed-shell waste from fruit crops could tackle energy poverty

Quirky solar cell sets new efficiency record

Increased light emission boosts cell performance

Windfarms can increase night-time temperatures, research reveals

Study in US claims building of huge windfarms in Texas has increased night temperatures by up to 0.72C (from the Guardian)

Development, pollution and dredging threaten seagrass more than climate change

Expert survey reveals key worries are currently urban and industrial run-off, coastal development, agricultural run-off and dredging

Kalahari Desert could dust up Southern Ocean

Additional source of iron-rich dust could alter marine ecosystems

Greenhouse emissions must decrease by 3% a year

Researchers analyse scenarios required to keep temperature rise below 2°C

Insight: spectral nudging improves regional typhoon simulations

Hindcast tropical-cyclone tracks and spatial distributions become more realistic

African groundwater offers hope for climate variability 'buffer'

First estimate indicates continent's groundwater resources have 20 times the storage capacity of its freshwater lakes

River information must go with the flow

Run-off is not enough to model human and ecosystem requirements

Karakoram glaciers have grown over last decade, new research shows

3D altitude maps captured by satellites show glaciers in part of the greater Himalaya range are bucking the global trend of continued ice loss (from the Guardian)

Insight: measurements of atmospheric electric field could help forecast weather

Data could complement other forms of boundary layer monitoring