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Environment - Earth Sciences - 12.10.2016
‘Time machine’ study warns of long-term dangers of ocean acidification
New research into the effects of ocean acidification suggests that, while marine organisms may be able to cope with the effects of climate change in the short term, the biological cost of doing so may be too high to guarantee long-term survival. Dr Nick Kamenos discusses his research In a new paper published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of scientists from the Universities of Glasgow, California Santa Cruz, Stanford and Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn describe how they studied crustose coralline algae clustered around undersea volcanic vents in Ischia, Italy.
Earth Sciences - 06.10.2016

Scientists examining naturally occurring uranium levels in ancient deep sea corals have discovered new insights into how the major northern ice sheets retreated during the last major deglaciation on Earth. The research, carried out by a team from the universities of Bristol, Leeds, Cardiff, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Colgate University, has been published in Science this week.
Life Sciences - Earth Sciences - 06.10.2016

A new species of British ichthyosaur has been identified using skeletal remains which have been on display at the University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences for many years.
History / Archeology - Earth Sciences - 05.10.2016
King's announces new exhibition: Traces of War
26 October - 18 December 2016 King's College London, Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing Admission is free Traces of War is a new exhibition from King's College London.
Life Sciences - Earth Sciences - 26.09.2016

Fresh evidence from a series of expeditions to North Greenland have led palaeontologists to solve an age-old mystery about a distinctive group of arthropods.
Earth Sciences - Astronomy / Space - 23.09.2016
Link between Texas earthquakes and wastewater injection
A study by the University of Liverpool and Arizona State University has found strong evidence of a link between wastewater disposal and earthquakes in Texas. Researchers studied four high-volume wells used for disposing wastewater, located near the epicentre of an earthquake, which occurred in 2012 in the city of Timpson, Texas.
Earth Sciences - Administration - 22.09.2016
’Extreme sleepover #18’ - rebuilding earthquake-shattered Christchurch
Kristen MacAskill describes how an earthquake in her hometown served to influence her career as an engineer.
Earth Sciences - Event - 13.09.2016

Earth Sciences - 13.09.2016

A research team led by the University of Bristol has found magma build-up beneath Japan's Aira caldera and Sakurajima volcano may indicate a growing threat to Kagoshima city and its 600,000 inhabitants. The team was headed by Drs James Hickey and Joachim Gottsmann from the Volcanology Research Group at the School of Earth Sciences.
Event - Earth Sciences - 12.09.2016
Lasker Award for Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe
The normal flow of air high up in the atmosphere over the equator, known as the quasi-biennial oscillation, was seen to break down earlier this year.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 09.09.2016
Unprecedented atmospheric behaviour disrupts one of Earth’s most regular climate cycles
The normal flow of air high up in the atmosphere over the equator, known as the quasi-biennial oscillation, was seen to break down earlier this year.
Earth Sciences - Economics - 08.09.2016
Jurassic terror is coming to Nottingham
One of the most terrifying dinosaurs of the Jurassic age is coming to Nottingham next summer. Standing 3 metres high and over 7 metres long, the fearsome Sinraptor used its long legs and sharp claws to move quickly through the undergrowth to catch unsuspecting prey.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 06.09.2016
Tracing Panama’s geological footprints
It sits at the junction between two continents, separates two vast oceans and has a significant effect on global ocean currents and the climate across Northern Hemisphere.
Earth Sciences - 02.09.2016
Great Fire of London - what impact did it have on the city?
Earth Sciences - Linguistics / Literature - 26.08.2016
University plays key role in telling the story of the North
Earth Sciences - 16.08.2016
Schools in the South-East of England dominate access to Oxbridge
Elite state schools in London and the South-East of England have become 'feeder schools' to Oxbridge, increasing inequality in access to England's top universities, according to new research by a King's PhD student.
Life Sciences - Earth Sciences - 11.08.2016
Lessons for conservation
Scientists battling to fight a lethal amphibian disease on two Caribbean islands have witnessed what is believed to be one of the fastest species-wide declines ever recorded for any animal - pushing a critically endangered frog species towards the verge of extinction. Chytridiomycosis (chytrid) is already responsible for devastating hundreds of amphibian species worldwide.
Mechanical Engineering - Earth Sciences - 09.08.2016

Research on rocks beneath one of the West Country's busiest motorway junctions has revealed unexpected evidence of major flooding events across southern England millions of years ago.
Earth Sciences - Life Sciences - 03.08.2016
Red gene? in birds and turtles suggests dinosaurs had bird-like colour vision
A gene for red colour vision that originated in the reptile lineage around 250m years ago has resulted in the bright red bird feathers and 'painted' turtles we see today, and may be evidence that dinosaurs could see as many shades of red as birds - and perhaps even displayed more red than we might think.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 26.07.2016
Earth, wind and flyer: the moves of Disco Tony and friends
Disco Tony has travelled over 5,000 miles. He is grey with a yellow ring around his eyes. He is a cuckoo, but not just any cuckoo.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 22.07.2016

The build-up of magma six kilometres below El Salvador's Ilopango caldera means the capital city of San Salvador may be at risk from future eruptions, University of Bristol researchers have found. A caldera is a large cauldron-like volcanic depression or crater, formed by the collapse of an emptied magma chamber.
Earth Sciences - Social Sciences - 21.07.2016
New Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education appointed
Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 01.07.2016

NASA discovers more about Mars' ancient atmosphere by studying a dune system, which is named in honour of an Imperial Fellow. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is a long-term effort by NASA to robotically explore Mars. As part of the mission a car-sized roving laboratory called Curiosity is travelling across Mars' Gale Crater and steadily climbing up the side of Mount Sharp, located at its centre.
Earth Sciences - Computer Science - 01.07.2016
Fingerprinting rare earth elements from the air
Vital to many modern technologies yet mined in few places, the 'rare earth elements' are in fact not that rare - they are just difficult to find in concentrations that make them economic to mine.
Earth Sciences - 01.07.2016
Chasing the volcano
In 2014, Cambridge researchers monitored a series of seismic shocks which preceded Iceland's biggest volcanic eruption in 200 years.
Earth Sciences - 29.06.2016
Our ancestors evolved faster after dinosaur extinction
Our ancestors evolved three times faster in the 10 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs than in the previous 80 million years, according to UCL researchers. The team found the speed of evolution of placental mammals - a group that today includes nearly 5000 species including humans - was constant before the extinction event but exploded after, resulting in the varied groups of mammals we see today.
Earth Sciences - Life Sciences - 28.06.2016

Two new specimens of tiny bird wings trapped in amber from rocks have been uncovered in China. The fossil wings seem to have come from baby birds that got trapped in the sticky sap of tropical trees 100 million years ago. Thousands of remarkable fossil birds from the time of the dinosaurs have been uncovered in China.
Earth Sciences - Administration - 27.06.2016
Opinion: What Brexit means for UK science: a view from the coalface
Simon Redfern (Department of Earth Sciences) discusses how Brexit may impact EU research opportunities and funding in the UK.
Event - Earth Sciences - 23.06.2016
King's Geographer wins prestigious ESRC Impact Champion Prize
Environment - Earth Sciences - 17.06.2016
Largest assessment of Atlantic deep-sea ecosystems gets underway
Scientists from the University of Liverpool have joined forces with teams across 10 European countries, the USA, and Canada to undertake the largest and most ambitious assessment of deep-sea Atlantic ecosystems ever undertaken. With support from the European Commission's Horizon 2020 funding programme, the ¤9 million ATLAS (A trans-Atlantic assessment and deep-sea ecosystem-based spatial management plan for Europe) project, launched this week in Scotland, marking the beginning of a series of expeditions involving at least 25 research cruises over the next four years.
Life Sciences - Earth Sciences - 15.06.2016

A team from the University of Bristol has shed new light on the creatures that inhabited the tropical seas surrounding Britain at the start of the age of the dinosaurs. Some 210 million years ago, Britain consisted of many islands, surrounded by warm seas. Europe at the time lay farther south, at latitudes equivalent to North Africa today.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 06.06.2016
Opinion: Droughts and floods: India’s water crises demand more than grand projects
Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discusses ways of dealing with the crisis affecting India's water resources.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 03.06.2016
Indonesian forest fires caused largest increase in atmospheric CO2 since measurements began
Last year's extensive forest fires in Southeast Asia, most notably Indonesia, were responsible for the highest levels of atmospheric CO2 emissions ever measured, according to research published today from King's College London.
Health - Earth Sciences - 27.05.2016
Transforming lives in southern Africa
Earth Sciences - 26.05.2016
Cambridge App maps decline in regional diversity of English dialects
Regional diversity in dialect words and pronunciations could be diminishing as much of England falls more in line with how English is spoken in London and the south-east, according to the first results from a free app developed by Cambridge researchers. More and more people are using and pronouncing words in the way that people from London and the south-east do.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 24.05.2016
A 100 million-year partnership on the brink of extinction
A symbiotic relationship that has existed since the time of the dinosaurs is at risk of ending, as habitat loss and environmental change mean that a species of Australian crayfish and the tiny worms that depend on them are both at serious risk of extinction.
Earth Sciences - Economics - 17.05.2016
Dinosaur super-predators in search of sponsors!
Environment - Earth Sciences - 16.05.2016
We're going on a bug hunt!
Famous naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is calling on gardeners, schools and community groups across the UK to take part in a giant survey of pollinating insects.
Earth Sciences - Event - 11.05.2016
Nottingham flood expert is honoured by Royal Geographical Society
Chemistry - Earth Sciences - 10.05.2016

PhD researcher Sam Briggs successfully summed up his research into the chemical origins of life to win the University of Bristol's Three Minute Thesis competition, which challenges postgraduate students to present years of work that go into a PhD thesis in just three minutes.
Earth Sciences - 09.05.2016
First global map of flow within the Earth’s mantle finds the surface is moving up and down "like a yo-yo"
Researchers have compiled the first global set of observations of flow within the Earth's mantle - the layer between the crust and the core - and found that it is moving much faster than has been predicted. Although we're talking about timescales that seem incredibly long to you or me, in geological terms, the Earth's surface bobs up and down like a yo-yo.
Earth Sciences - Health - 09.05.2016
Royal Geographical Society honours Professor Jo Sharp with the Busk Medal
Career - Earth Sciences - 05.05.2016
A female perspective from generations of immigrant workers in Britain
Migration to and from the UK has always been a central part of the history of the UK, but have previous narratives largely ignored the everyday experiences of women?
Earth Sciences - Linguistics / Literature - 04.05.2016
Nan Shepherd celebrated: the Scottish writer who knew mountains
The writer Nan Shepherd (1893-1981), who was quietly acclaimed in her lifetime, is the face of a new Royal Bank of Scotland bank note.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 28.04.2016

Earth Sciences - History / Archeology - 25.04.2016

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Health - Earth Sciences - 19.04.2016
New cases of dementia in the UK fall by 20% over two decades
The UK has seen a 20% fall in the incidence of dementia over the past two decades, according to new research from England, led by the University of Cambridge, leading to an estimated 40,000 fewer cases of dementia than previously predicted. However, Our evidence shows that the so-called dementia 'tsunami' is not an inevitability: we can help turn the tide if we take action now Carol Brayne Reports in both the media and from governments have suggested that the world is facing a dementia 'tsunami' of ever-increasing numbers, particularly as populations age.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 19.04.2016

Dr Kate Hendry, Royal Society Research Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences, has joined an EU-funded project to examine the ecology and diversity of deep-sea sponge ecosystems in the North Atlantic.
Earth Sciences - 18.04.2016
Becoming an Expert: Oliver Lamb on the complex behaviour of volcanoes
Oliver Lamb is a PhD student in the Volcanology research group in the University's School of Environmental Sciences. "Volcanoes are a spectacular and dangerous embodiment of the dynamic nature of our planet. An estimated 800 million people now live within 100 km of an active volcano around the world, and this figure continues to increase every year.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 13.04.2016

For the first time, an international group of scientists, has come up with a way to estimate on a large scale how phosphorus flows through an environment over many decades. The research team, including the University of Bristol, found the UK is using less fertilizer to grow food and that both historically and currently, it is a world leader in modern wastewater treatment.
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Health - Today
The University of Manchester marks launch of new Africa Strategy with visit to Kenyan partners
The University of Manchester marks launch of new Africa Strategy with visit to Kenyan partners
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Economics - Today
'Mission accomplished' as ventures graduate from Scotland's first deeptech accelerator
'Mission accomplished' as ventures graduate from Scotland's first deeptech accelerator
Pedagogy - Today
MyAppraisal goes live today for Professorial and Academic, Research, and Teaching staff
MyAppraisal goes live today for Professorial and Academic, Research, and Teaching staff
