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Mapping wet landscapes in more detail

Technique could aid management without disturbing ecosystems

Study examines nanoparticle uptake in marine ecosystems

Clams and biofilms accumulate the most nanoparticles by mass in test system

Galactic link to climate change in doubt

Sun's passage through spiral arms not correlated with climate change, says new research

Ocean carbon pump in past limited by phosphorus

Study of Eastern Equatorial Pacific could help predict future climate change

Extraterrestrial team challenges palaeoclimatologists

Question raised about past atmospheric pressure levels

Role of HFCs in climate change likely to rise

Replacement ozone-safe gases for use in refrigeration are strong greenhouse gases

Climate impacts: down to the nitty-gritty

Joint Assembly focuses on regional climate change

Soils may emit more carbon dioxide as climate warms

Ecosystems like soil may not be able to acclimatise to warmer temperatures in the long term.

Earth's magnetic field perturbed by 'electric oceans', claims researcher

Is Atlantic Ocean circulation responsible for magnetic oddities in Europe?

Mystery OH source cleans up

Atmospheric clean-up of pollutants in China's Pearl River Delta is faster and produces less ozone than expected

Clearing the air about Olympic pollution

Change in weather rather than anti-pollution measures could be cause of clear air for Beijing Olympics in 2008

Ice core reveals nitrogen secrets

Isotope levels in nitrates indicate changing sources of nitrogen oxides

Peering under the Antarctic ice sheet

Radar study for International Polar Year reveals "Alp-like" structure of Gamburtsev mountains

Rubber plantations degrade environment

Worries over biodiversity and water cycle

Seastar thrives in more acid waters

Marine invertebrate with internal skeleton set to fare better than its shelled relations

Ocean acidification could harm shellfish trade

Decline in mollusc harvest likely to cause $187  m revenue loss per year in US

Modellers predict doubly bad global warming

Business-as-usual will cause temperature rise of 5.2° by 2100, warn MIT scientists

Earth vibrations indicate increased storminess

Seismic signals produced by oceanic waves reveal greater cyclone activity

Caribbean-reef fish in decline

Populations may be more vulnerable than expected.

Spying on biological particles in clouds

Aircraft measurements reveal dust and biological particles from distant lands in cloud ice crystals in real time