| 10/04/2016 London: Air pollution may be responsible for hundreds of car accidents a year, as toxic air may impair driver fitness, a new UK study has found. Researchers from the London School of Economics divided the UK into a grid of 32 areas each covering about 7,700 square kilometres and mapped accidents to the level of air pollution between 2009 and 2014. They found … Continue reading Air pollution to blame for traffic accidents: study

| 08/31/2016 Scientists have used a group of elephant seals to observe changes in the circulation of the world’s oceans reveals a recent research.The international researchers led by the University of Tasmania’s Dr. Guy Williams, used sensors attached to 20 elephant seals to measure water temperature and salinity in the Antarctica, Xinhua news agency reported. The research showed how “bottom water” – a dense type … Continue reading Elephant seals to measure changing ocean currents

| 08/30/2016 There has been little improvement in air quality over the past 20 years as transport planners focus on preventing road deaths, according to a study. Two university academics set out to try to understand why there has been little improvement in air pollution concentrations from road transport since the UK signed up to international air quality standards in 1995, as part of the … Continue reading UK air quality shows little improvement over past 20 years, says study

| 08/27/2016 A new study measures the loss of ice from one of world’s largest ice sheets. They find an ice loss that has accelerated in the past few years, and their measurements confirm prior estimates. As humans emit heat-trapping gases, we expect to see changes to the Earth. One obvious change to be on the lookout for is melting ice. This includes ice atop … Continue reading Global warming is melting the Greenland Ice Sheet, fast

| 27/08/2016 While Bangladesh is among the top five countries at risk of disaster, India ranks 77 on the World Risk Index – marginally better positioned than Pakistan which is placed at 72. The index is part of the World Risk Report 2016 released on Thursday by the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and Bundnis Entwicklung Hilft in cooperation with … Continue reading India ranked 77 in disaster risk index of the world

| 08/25/2016 Continents and oceans in the northern hemisphere began to warm with industrial-era fossil fuel emissions nearly 200 years ago, pushing back the origins of human induced climate change to the mid-19th century. The first signs of warming from the rise in greenhouse gases which came hand-in-hand with the Industrial Revolution appear as early as 1830 in the tropical oceans and the Arctic, meaning … Continue reading Human-induced climate change began earlier than previously though

| 08/25/2016 The project, led by UAF researcher Katey Walter Anthony, studied lakes in Alaska, Canada, Sweden and Siberia where permafrost thaw surrounding lakes led to lake shoreline expansion during the past 60 years. Using historical aerial photo analysis, soil and methane sampling, and radiocarbon dating, the project quantified for the first time the strength of the present-day permafrost carbon feedback to climate warming. Although … Continue reading Study measures methane discharge from Arctic permafrost

New bits of knowledge into the relationship amongst erosion and tectonics in the Himalayas | 08/24/2016 Earth’s climate interacts with so called surface processes — such as landslides or river erosion — and tectonics to shape the landscape that we see. In some regions, the sheer force of these processes has led scientists to believe that they may even influence the development of tectonics. An … Continue reading New bits of knowledge into the relationship amongst erosion and tectonics in the Himalayas

Off South Africa s coast, great white sharks are threatened | 08/23/2016 On the edge of a boat off this coastal village, Michael Rutzen stubs his cigarette into a soda can and stares pensively out to sea. Extensive research by Rutzen and his marine biologist partner, Sara Andreotti, has found that great whites off the South African coast are rapidly heading for extinction. The area … Continue reading Off South Africa s coast, great white sharks are threatened