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Why Europe's climate faces a stormy future

(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe is likely to be hit by more violent winter storms in the future. Now a new study into the effects of climate change has found out why.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

New study may answer questions about enigmatic Little Ice Age

A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study appears to answer contentious questions about the onset and cause of Earth's Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures that began after the Middle Ages ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Wind farm in North Sea has positive net impact on fauna

A North-Sea wind farm has hardly any negative effects on fauna. At most, a few bird species will avoid such a wind farm. It turns out that a wind farm also provides a new natural habitat for organisms living ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ancient glacial melting process similar to existing concerns about Antarctica, Greenland

An analysis of prehistoric "Heinrich events" that happened many thousands of years ago, creating mass discharges of icebergs into the North Atlantic Ocean, make it clear that very small amounts of subsurface warming of water ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers map out ice sheets shrinking during Ice Age

A set of maps created by the University of Sheffield have illustrated, for the first time, how our last British ice sheet shrunk during the Ice Age.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Sub-sea electricity cable from Scotland to Norway planned

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study into a proposed North Sea interconnector will examine the possibility of a sub-sea electricity cable linking Scotland and Norway, according to an announcement earlier this week in Aberdeen by Scotland's ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 04, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

A cooler Pacific may have severely affected medieval Europe, North America

In the time before Columbus sailed the ocean blue, a cooler central Pacific Ocean has been connected with drought conditions in Europe and North America that may be responsible for famines and the disappearance of cliff dwelling ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Germany's first offshore wind farm begins turning

The blades began turning at Germany's first offshore wind farm Tuesday, 45 kilometres (28 miles) off the coast in the North Sea, with 12 turbines producing energy for 50,000 households.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 8

Jurassic 'burn-down' events and organic matter richness in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation

The sediments of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation were deposited during the Late Jurassic between around 160 and 145 million years ago, the age of the reptiles. They are the main oil source rock in the North ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dutch build more dunes against rising seas

On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

World's first floating wind turbine opens in Norway

The world's first floating full-scale offshore wind turbine has been inaugurated in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, Norwegian energy giant StatoilHydro said Tuesday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 8

The lost voyage: First English-led expedition to North America

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence of a previously unknown voyage to North America in 1499, led by a Bristol explorer, is to be published this week in the academic journal Historical Research.

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 5

New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground

It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Resupplied North Pole explorers resume trek

Three British explorers fighting to survive a gruelling trek to the North Pole finally resumed their journey Friday after receiving vital supplies of food, fuel and equipment, organizers said.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (35) | comments 0

World?s most northerly bottlenose dolphin population stable, report concludes

The world's most northerly resident population of bottlenose dolphins is stable and may even be increasing, according to new research.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0